RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Signed book: A Masque of Reason. First edition, first printing. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 23 pages. Si

Color glossy 9.5 x 7 head-and-shoulders photo of Grass, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition, with some irregular ink adhesion to signature.

Pen name of Elizabeth Comber (1916–2012) who wrote novels set in Asia and autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China, which gaine

Signed book: Prime Evil. First illustrated edition, limited issue of 1000, publisher’s copy. West Kingston: Donald M. Grant. Hardcover with slipcase,

Author, suffragette, dramatist, poet, and biographer (1819–1910), best remembered as the lyricist of ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic.’ Uncommon 4.25 x 6.

Ink signature, “Washington Irving, Sunnyside, Aug 19th 1854,” on an off-white 4 x 2.25 slip. In fine condition, with trivial brushing. Sunnyside was I

Austrian playwright and novelist (born 1946) who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Color glossy 6 x 8.25 photo of Jelinek, signed in

Swedish writer (1858–1940) who in 1909 became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. TLS in Italian, two pages, 8.25 x 11, March 3, 19

Writer (1895–1976) whose compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West. ALS, one page, 6.5 x 7.25,

Two checks: a bank check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by London, payable to Belden & Hehir for $11.75, stamp-dated May 7, 1911; and a per...