RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
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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Samuel L. Clemens480 - Samuel L. Clemens
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ALS signed “Your uncle Mark,” one page, 4.75 x 6.5, personal letterhead, May 15, 1908. Letter to his honorary niece, Mary Rogers, the daughter-in-law
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens481 - Charles Dickens
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Desirable hand-addressed and signed address panel removed from a mailing envelope, 4.75 x 2.5, addressed by Dickens to “Professor Felton, Cambridge, M
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens482 - Charles Dickens
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Ink signature, “Monday, Second August 1869, Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens,” adding the recipient, “Miss Edmonds,” in the lower left, on an off-whi
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle483 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 5.25 x 3.25, personal letterhead, November 3. Letter to Mrs. Harcourt Rose. In part: “You should make a party t
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Alexandre Dumas, pere484 - Alexandre Dumas, pere
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ALS in French, signed “A. Dumas,” one page, 5.25 x 8, no date but likely circa mid to late 1840s. In full (translated): “Are these coupons which I hav
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Jean Genet485 - Jean Genet
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ALS in French, one page, 8.25 x 10.5, no date. Untranslated letter to French journalist Andre Parinaud, asking for more time to write an article and e
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe486 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Manuscript DS in German, signed “G,” one page, 5 x 5.75, no date but circa 1822. Goethe acknowledges receipt of a remittance. A note on the reverse in
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Zane Grey487 - Zane Grey
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Handwritten manuscript, unsigned, two lined notebook pages, 3.75 x 6.75, March 24, 1919. Grey’s manuscript for a short piece entitled “Death Valley.”
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Knut Hamsun488 - Knut Hamsun
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Prolific Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and poet (1859–1952) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. ANS in German, one page on a 4.25 x 3.25
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Heinrich Heine489 - Heinrich Heine
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Eminent German poet (1797–1856), one of the leading literary figures of the Romantic era, whose verses were set to music by such composers as Schubert
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway490 - Ernest Hemingway
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Bank check, 8.5 x 3.25, filled out and signed by Hemingway, “Ernest M. Hemingway,” payable to his friend and assistant Roberto Herrera for $150, Febru
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Victor Hugo491 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 6.75, January 14, 1841. A brief letter to French writer and historian Alfred Michiels. In full (translated): “I will c
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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James Joyce492 - James Joyce
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Signed book: Ulysses. First edition, fourth printing. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924. Hardcover, 6.75 x 8, 736 pages. Neatly signed and inscribe
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Estimate : 25,000.00 - 30,000.00
 
 
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Francois Mauriac493 - Francois Mauriac
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French author (1885–1970) who received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature. Desirable autograph manuscript in French, signed in the title, “por Francoi
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Koestler494 - Arthur Koestler
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Jewish-Hungarian author (1905–1983) best known for the anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon. Exceptional handwritten manuscript for an article introd
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Clement C. Moore495 - Clement C. Moore
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Poet and scholar (1779–1863) remembered for his classic poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas,’ beginning with the iconic line, ‘’Twas the night before Chri
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Vladimir Nabokov496 - Vladimir Nabokov
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Very 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
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Samuel Pepys497 - Samuel Pepys
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British naval administrator (1633–1703) best remembered as the author of a nine-year, multi-volume diary, one of the essential documents of 17th centu
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Romain Rolland498 - Romain Rolland
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French writer (1866–1944) who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature. ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, January 11, 1923
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau499 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Important Swiss-French philosopher and writer who held that the individual is essentially good but usually corrupted by society (1712–1778). Rare unsi
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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