RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science and Technology

Crisp ink signature, "Very truly yours, H. B. Stowe," on an off-white 3.5 x 2.25 card, dated May 29, 1879, below. In fine condition, with ...

French writer born Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842) considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism. ALS in French, signed with a ps

Bengali poet, playwright, philosopher, and author (1861–1941) who became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913. Striking ma

Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828–1910) best known for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Extremely desirable matte-finish 3.

Highly influential Russian author (1818–1883) whose 1862 novel Fathers and Sons remains one of the pillars of nineteenth-century literature. Rare 2.5

ANS signed “V. Woolf,” penned on the reverse of a 5.5 x 3.5 Monk's House postcard belonging to her husband Leonard Woolf, postmarked August 15, ...

American writer (1903–1968) who is best known for his crime fiction; his story It Had to Be Murder served as the source for Alfred Hitchcock's 1...

Signed book: The Journey Home. First edition. NY: E. P. Dutton, 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 242 pages. Signed on the first free end

American novelist and playwright (1884–1933) best known for creating the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. Vintage fountain pen signa

Handwritten poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, penned in ballpoint on a blue 5 x 7 sheet. The poem, entitled "Robert, Who Is Often A Stranger to Himself...

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

American writer (1873–1947) who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark,

Vintage fountain pen signature of the prolific detective novelist, "Agatha Christie,” on an off-white 5 x 3 card. In fine condition.

Four items: a Christmas card with giraffes under Mt. Kilimanjaro, measures 7.75 x 8 open, signed inside in ballpoint by Mary Hemingway; and a group of

Signed book: Andesonville. Stockade Edition for Members of Civil War Book Club. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1955. Hardcover

TLS signed “Dutch,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, January 27, 1962. Letter to literary agent H. N. Swanson, in part: "It's been a while so I'd b...

Central Bank of Oakland check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Jack London, payable to American Life Insurance Club for $2, May 9, 1905. In fine

Signed book: The Dragons of Eden. First edition. NY: Random House, 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 263 pages. Signed and inscribed on the

Signed book: In the Night Kitchen. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.75 x 11.25, 40 pages. Signed on the firs...

Vintage fountain pen signature, "John Steinbeck,” on an off-white 5 x 3 card bearing a small affixed portrait. Notation on the reverse dates th...

Glossy 8 x 10.25 photo of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist posing against a pair of columns, signed in black ink by John Updike, who add

Personal check, 8.5 x 3.5, filled out in type and signed by Williams, "Tennessee Williams," payable to Robert Carroll for $242.74, June 1,...

Signed book: The Right Stuff. First edition. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 436 pages. Signed and inscribed

Important Austrian composer (1824-1896) whose symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism. Autograph musical

Attractive glossy 4.25 x 5.75 postcard photo of Callas as Imogene in the 1959 production of Il Pirata, signed in black felt tip, "Maria Callas,...

Austro-Hungarian composer (1897-1957) who, after producing much well-received 'serious' music, enjoyed great success as a film composer and ...

Scarce 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo of Liszt by Fritz Luckhardt of Vienna, boldly signed in ink, "F. Liszt." In fine condition, with a li...

Third-person ALS, signed within the text, “Mr. Mendelssohn,” one page, 4.25 x 7, April 28, 1847. Letter to Mrs. Erskine, possibly the wife of the Scot

Signed book: Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi. Paris: G. Ricordi & Co., 1919. Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.75, 234 pages. Signed and inscribed...

Italian composer (1858–1924) who earned a central place in the operatic pantheon with such repertoire staples as ‘La boheme,’ ‘Madama Butterfly,’ and

Superb early vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 Russian postcard photo of Rachmaninoff in a seated pose, crisply signed in ink in Cyrillic, "S. Ra...

Austrian-born composer (1874–1951) whose development of the 'twelve-tone' system proved to be one of the most far-reaching innovations in th...

Highly important German composer and pianist (1810–1856) whose distinctively lyrical musical language, especially evident in his keyboard works and ar

Russian composer and pianist (1906–1975) who is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Vintage glossy 3.25 x 5.25 postcard photo

Eminent Viennese composer (1825–1899) known as the 'Waltz King,' who is remembered for such classics as 'The Beautiful Blue Danube' ...

AMQS in pencil on an off-white 4.5 x 3.5 card, signed below, "Igor Stravinsky, Paris, 1936." Stravinsky writes a line from his second ball...

ANS in Italian, signed “G. Verdi,” penned on a 3.5 x 2 calling card belonging to Verdi, December 1, 1900. An untranslated note to Ernesto Conigliaro.

Exquisite 4.5 x 6.5 cabinet photo of Wagner by Fritz Luckhardt, signed and inscribed on the reverse to Carl Brandt, a close collaborator of Wagner at

ALS in German, signed “Rich. Wagner,” one page, 5.25 x 8.5, May 10, 1873. Letter concerning the shipment of a brochure relating to the building of the

Someday My Prince Will Come album signed neatly on the back cover in black ballpoint by John Coltrane. In very good to fine condition, with light scuf

TLS, signed, "Woody Guthrie," one page, lightly-lined, 7.5 x 9.75, March 19, 1946. Letter to Moe Asch and Marian Distler. In full: "I...

Highly sought-after original color 23.75 x 33.25 poster for an AC/DC concert at Stadthalle in Offenbach, Germany on November 20, 1979, as part of thei

Fly on the Wall album by AC/DC, signed on the front cover in blue felt tip by Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams, and Simon Wri

Sought-after ink signatures and inscriptions, "To Michael from Angus Young, AC/DC" and "To Michael, Bon, AC/DC," on an off-white...

Hugely appealing Parlophone Records promo card, 3.5 x 5.75, showing the Beatles posing together behind their instruments, crisply and neatly signed on

Amazing original promotional cover slick for the British album release of A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles, presented to a stewardess on Fab Fo...

Hugely desirable official program for the Beatles’ infamous appearance at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre on November 4, 1963, or a royal variety per

Vintage ballpoint signatures of John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr on an off-white 5 x 3 card clipped from the reverse of a

ANS signed “G. Harrisongs,” penned in felt tip on an off-white 6.5 x 7 sheet, which reads, in full: “Is there any particular reason for these cheques

Unusual ALS written by Yoko Ono to her daughter Kyoko featuring a sketch by John Lennon on the reverse. Letter is signed by Yoko, "Your mommy,&...