RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science and Technology

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Boasting nearly 1,000 lots in a variety of genres, RR Auction's June Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is highlighted by a Science and Technology section that includes a Lunar Module rotational hand controller, letters by Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, rare early computer hardware, and more. Other top lots include Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell's lunar surface-worn backpack strap, a letter by Joseph Stalin with a hammer-and-sickle sketch, a Beatles-signed promo slick for A Hard Day's Night, hand-drawn plans from Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin studio, and signed letters by luminaries like Davy Crockett, Paul Gauguin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Richard Wagner, and Claude Monet. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in June 2019.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Norman Mailer498 - Norman Mailer
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Signed book: The Naked and the Dead. First edition. NY: Rinehart and Company, 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket (with Rinehart logo on copyright page a
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Rudyard Kipling499 - Rudyard Kipling
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ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, September 10, 1892. Lengthy letter to author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote, known for her stor
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Vladimir Nabokov500 - Vladimir Nabokov
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Rare DS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, August 4, 1969. Document extending a deadline for an option agreement between Nabokov and McGraw Hill International &q...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Pablo Neruda501 - Pablo Neruda
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AQS on an off-white 7.5 x 5 album page, signed at the conclusion in ink, "Pablo Neruda, 1943, New York." Neruda pens the second verse of h...
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
 
 
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Eugene O'Neill502 - Eugene O'Neill
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Scarce vintage matte-finish 7.75 x 10 photo of Eugene O'Neill by the Ben Pinchot photography studio of Manhattan, signed and inscribed in founta...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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George Orwell503 - George Orwell
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ALS signed “George,” three pages on two sheets, 6.5 x 7.75, March 8, 1948. Letter to novelist Anthony Powell, written while recovering from a diagnosi
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Estimate : 12,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Boris Pasternak504 - Boris Pasternak
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Russian writer and translator (1890–1960) whose novel Doctor Zhivago takes a place among the central works of twentieth-century literature. ALS in Fre
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry505 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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ALS in French, signed “Antoine,” three pages on two sheets, 8.5 x 10.75, Cafe de la Regence letterhead, no date but circa 1929. A love letter to his f
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Carl Sandburg506 - Carl Sandburg
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Vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 half-length photo of Carl Sandburg seated and reading a newspaper, signed and inscribed in black ink, "Kitty—no noo...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Maurice Sendak507 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: Where the Wild Things Are. First edition, with "Library of Congress catalog card number: 63-21253" on title page. NY: Harper ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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