RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science and Technology

Desirable DS, one page both sides, 8.5 x 14, June 17, 1981. Memorandum of agreement between Salinger and Ediciones Grijalbo SA, in which the former gr

Signed book: The Catcher in the Rye. Fourteenth printing. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Hardcover with later issue dust jacket (pric

Irish author (1847–1912) best known for his horror classic Dracula. ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Hotel Vendome letterhead, March 16, 1894. Letter to H. H.

Sought-after ink signature, "Leo Tolstoy.,” on an off-white 5.25 x 8.5 sheet. In fine condition, with several folds (one touching the tall lett...

ALS signed “The good-not-great Wells,” one page both sides, 7 x 9, no date. An interesting letter to H. E. Hadley featuring a large sketch of a party

Three books: a first American edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, hardcover with dust jacket, signed on the title page in blue ball...

American novelist (1892–1977) best known as the author of such crime/noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. TLS signed

Unique handwritten poem in the form a tree, accomplished in black felt tip on an off-white 8.5 x 11 sheet, signed and titled at the bottom, "Co...

ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 6.75, Ashfield letterhead, December 10 [no year, but likely 1930]. Letter to Mr. Sullivan, in part: &q...

Clean ink signature, "Yours sincerely, S. L. Clemens,” on an off-white 3 x 1 sheet. Double-matted and framed to 12.75 x 17. 5. In fine condition.

Otsego County Bank check, 5.5 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Cooper, "J. Fenimore Cooper," payable to Self for $10, November 3, 1837. Enc...

American socialist and writer (1883-1969) whose outspoken leftist leanings led him to be tried twice for sedition during World War I. He later became

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, 730 Park Avenue letterhead, March 6, 1964. Letter to Edwin Miller, the entertainment editor of Seventeen magazine, in full

Signed book: From Snow to Snow. First edition. NY: Henry Holt Company, 1936. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8, 20 pages. Signed and inscribed on t

Signed book: Complete Poems of Robert Frost. Later printing. NY: Henry Holt Company, 1949. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.5, 666 pages. Signed and inscribed on t

DS, one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, June 11, 1937. Contract between Hammett and MGM in which he agrees to “give, grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer

ALS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, November 17, no year. Letter to “Miss Blue.” In full: “My wife and I are very sorry we can’t wriggle out of a previous eng

Desirable ink signature, "N. Hawthorne, Consul &c,” on an off-white 1.5 x .5 slip affixed to an off-white 5.75 x 8.75 sheet bearing an ink ...

French symbolist writer (1873–1907) best known for his 1896 play Ubu Roi and for coining the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.'...

Ink signature, "Rudyard Kipling,” on an off-white 3.75 x 1 slip. Mounted, cloth-matted, and framed with an artistic depiction of Kipling to an ...