RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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With over 750 outstanding lots, RR Auction’s October Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction opens with a remarkable featured section—‘Innovators of Man and Machine,’ boasting three centuries' worth of the world’s greatest minds: Bernoulli, Watt, Pasteur, Westinghouse, Edison, Einstein, Boeing, and Ferrari are among the autographs offered. The rest of the catalog provides a well-balanced assortment of items from presidents, Declaration of Independence signers, activists, businessmen, world leaders, royalty, military figures, artists, authors, musicians, entertainers, and athletes. A small sampling of top items in the sale: an Albert Einstein handwritten manuscript related to his work on a unified field theory; a 50-letter archive of letters from photographer Alfred Stieglitz to New Yorker critic Lewis Mumford; a Freud letter on the Oedipus complex; a musical quote from Verdi’s ‘La traviata’; a fully signed Beatles promo card; and a game-used baseball from the 1917 Tim Murnane Day benefit game played at Fenway Park. 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 October 2017.
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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Robert Browning447 - Robert Browning
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ALS signed “Robert Brownin ,” one page, 4.25 x 7, November 23, 1889. Letter to Miss Bateman, in part: "I heartily wish I were able to comply wi...
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Charles Bukowski448 - Charles Bukowski
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ANS signed “C. B.,” one page, 5 x 8, no date. In full: "I've been informed that signing a blank piece of paper is a foolish business."...
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James Fenimore Cooper449 - James Fenimore Cooper
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Ostego County Bank check, 6 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Cooper, "J. Fenimore Cooper," payable to "my own self" for $10, Marc...
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Roald Dahl450 - Roald Dahl
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Felt tip signature and inscription, "To Blanche Campbell, The terror of the publishers! with warmest wishes from Roald Dahl, Jan 20, 1966,” on ...
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Roald Dahl451 - Roald Dahl
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Gipsy House letterhead, November 22, 1984. Letter to Barry Evans, in part: "Of course I would be willing to write a litt...
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Melvil Dewey452 - Melvil Dewey
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American librarian and educator (1851–1931) who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. Partly-printed DS, signed “M. Dewey,” one
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Robert Frost453 - Robert Frost
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Signed book: Aforesaid. Limited edition issued for the author's 80th birthday, numbered 430/650. NY: Henry Holt and Company. Hardcover with slip...
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Edward Everett Hale454 - Edward Everett Hale
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Signed book: The Man Without a Country. Later printing. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1904. Hardcover, 4.5 x 7, 59 pages. Signed and inscribed o
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr455 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “O. W. Holmes,” 4.5 x 7, February 16, 1860. Letter to a Mr. Murray, in part: "I regret very much that my engagements prevent me from...
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Julia Ward Howe456 - Julia Ward Howe
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ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 7.75, March 1882. Letter to Frank Hamilton Cushing, in part: "I am expecting you and the Chiefs to...
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Harper Lee457 - Harper Lee
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ALS signed “Nelle,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, October 1 [2007]. Letter to her close friend and New York neighbor Bruce Higginson, in full: &quo...
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Harper Lee458 - Harper Lee
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ALS signed “Nelle,” one page on a bordered 4 x 4 stationery sheet, no date but postmarked October 18, 2007. Brief letter to her close friend and New Y
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Sinclair Lewis459 - Sinclair Lewis
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Signed book: Kingsblood Royal. Limited first edition, numbered 70/1050. NY: Random House, 1947. Hardcover with slipcase, 5.75 x 8.25, 348 pages. Signe
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow460 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 3.75 x 5, January 10, 1876. Letter to Mrs. Sargent, in part: "I am extre...
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Henry Miller461 - Henry Miller
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ALS, one page on the reverse of a 5.5 x 3.25 postcard, September 12, 1944. Written from Big Sur, California, a short letter to Violla Rubber, in full:
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Novelists462 - Novelists
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Group of more than 70 autographs of popular novelists from the sci-fi, thriller, crime, fantasy, and mystery genres, predominately consisting of signa
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Poets and Playwrights463 - Poets and Playwrights
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Collection of more than 75 autographs of poets, playwrights, and screenwriters, predominately consisting of signatures on off-white cards, some inscri
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John Ruskin464 - John Ruskin
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Influential English art critic and writer (1819–1900). ALS signed “J. Ruskin,” one page, 4.5 x 7, Brantwood letterhead, December 23, 1883. Letter to...
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John Steinbeck465 - John Steinbeck
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Allied Military Currency issued in Italy in 1943 for 10 lire, 3 x 2.5, boldly signed in fountain pen by the author, "John Steinbeck." In f...
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Jacqueline Susann466 - Jacqueline Susann
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Two first edition books signed by Susann: Valley of the Dolls (1966), hardcover with dust jacket, signed on the first free end page in blue ballpoint;
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