RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science and Technology

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Science and Technology dominates the 900+ items in RR Auction's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale, highlighted by a fully functional Enigma I cipher machine used by the German military, letters by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, an Apple floppy disk signed by Steve Jobs, an historic Apollo and other space program artifacts. Other autograph highlights include a John Dillinger letter from jail, a ledger signed by Davy Crockett, multiple George Washington and Abraham Lincoln items, and other outstanding pieces of the past. 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 December 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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John Steinbeck596 - John Steinbeck
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ALS signed “J. S.,” penned on the reverse of a 5.5 x 3.25 postal card, postmarked December 15, 1964. Letter to Howard Gossage, in full: "My gre...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Bram Stoker597 - Bram Stoker
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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.5, Brevoort House letterhead, October 27, 1883. Letter to William Winter, in full: "I am sorry...
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H. G. Wells598 - H. G. Wells
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Superb vintage matte-finish 5 x 8 photo of Wells seated and writing at a table with sunlight trickling in from an unseen window, affixed to the origin
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Maya Angelou599 - Maya Angelou
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Two books: an unsigned first edition of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket, published by Random House in 1969;
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Authors600 - Authors
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Signed book: Writers Dreaming: 25 Writers Talk about Their Dreams and the Creative Process by Naomi Epel. Uncorrected galley proof of the first editio
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John Barth601 - John Barth
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Uncommon signed book: The Floating Opera. First edition. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 280 pages. Signed
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Bret Easton Ellis602 - Bret Easton Ellis
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Signed book: American Psycho. First edition, first printing. NY: Vintage Contemporaries/Random House, 1991. A paperback original, 5 x 8, 399 pages. Si
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Bret Easton Ellis603 - Bret Easton Ellis
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Signed book: Less Than Zero. First edition, first printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 208 pages. Sign...
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Edith Hamilton604 - Edith Hamilton
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American educator and author (1867–1963) remembered for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Two items: a vinta
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Ken Kesey605 - Ken Kesey
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Rare signed book: Demon Box. Uncorrected galley proof of the first edition. NY: Viking, 1986. In plain green wrappers, 5.5 x 8.25, 375 pages. Signed a
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Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary606 - Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary
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Three books signed by counterculture icons Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary: Jail Notes. First edition. NY: Douglas, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.7
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Stephen King607 - Stephen King
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Color glossy 8 x 10 photo of King with a camera on the set of a film, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "For Yetta—Best wishes, Stephen K...
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Harper Lee608 - Harper Lee
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Scarce satin-finish 8 x 10 close-up photo of the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, signed in black felt tip, "Harper Lee." In fin...
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Harper Lee609 - Harper Lee
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Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. Thirty-fifth Anniversary edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 323 pages. Sig
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Jack London610 - Jack London
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Central Bank of Oakland check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Jack London, payable to W. Wiget for $50, November 2, 1906. In fine condition. Enc
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow611 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” one page, 3.75 x 5, December 21, 1866. Letter about his book Tales of a Wayside Inn, in part: "Please deliver...
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Male Poets Anthology612 - Male Poets Anthology
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Signed review copy: Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America. First edition. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992
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Thomas Mann613 - Thomas Mann
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Highly influential, Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and social critic (1875-1955). Ink signature, "Thomas Mann, 8.I.22," on an off-whi...
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Arthur Miller614 - Arthur Miller
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Four items signed by Arthur Miller, including: two glossy 10 x 8 stills from the set of a remake of Death of a Salesman, each signed in blue ink by Mi
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Frederic Mistral615 - Frederic Mistral
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French poet (1830-1914) who shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature. Wonderful matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 postcard photo of Mistral seated, smoking, an
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