RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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RR Auction celebrates Presidents’ Day in February 2018! Our featured section boasts autographs from every American president, including a variety of virtually unobtainable examples—an Abraham Lincoln land grant, a James A. Garfield autograph letter as president, and a Theodore Roosevelt speech are among the highlights. Other top items include: Olympic medals and torches; artistic autographs from the likes of Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir; literary letters by Proust, Kafka, Dickens, and Voltaire; and autographs of music icons such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Woody Guthrie. 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 February 2018.
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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Shel Silverstein506 - Shel Silverstein
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Two items: a DS, 8.5 x 14, two pages, December 4, 1963, a popular songwriter's contract between Hollis Music, Inc., and Silverstein relating to ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Rabindranath Tagore507 - Rabindranath Tagore
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Bengali poet, playwright, philosopher, and author (1861–1941) who became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913. Rare ALS in
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Leon Uris508 - Leon Uris
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Signed book: Exodus. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 626 pages. Signed on the half-title page in
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Dylan Thomas509 - Dylan Thomas
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ALS, one page, 6.5 x 7.5, November 6, 1945. In full: "Here enclosed are the corrected final proofs of my book of poems Deaths & Entrances. ...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Voltaire510 - Voltaire
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Neatly penned partial autograph document in French, signed "Voltaire," one page, 6.5 x 8, January 5, 1761. The untranslated document appea...
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Voltaire511 - Voltaire
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ALS in French, signed “V,” one page both sides, 7 x 9, no date but circa 1753–1754. Letter to Francois-Louis Defresney, director of the post in Strasb
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Paul Verlaine512 - Paul Verlaine
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Famed and highly influential French poet (1844–1896) who penned Poèmes saturniens and Romances sans paroles; likewise remembered for his tumult...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Noah Webster513 - Noah Webster
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Author and lexicographer (1758-1843) who published the first comprehensive dictionary of American English. ALS signed “N. Webster,” one page, 8 x 9.75
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Kurt Vonnegut514 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Signed book: Cat's Cradle. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 233 pages. Signed on the...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Edith Wharton515 - Edith Wharton
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Signed book: Twelve Poems by Edith Wharton. Limited edition, numbered 125/130. London: Medici Society, 1926. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5, 51 pages. Boldly si
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
 
 
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William Carlos Williams516 - William Carlos Williams
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Physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1883–1963) whose innovative verse made him one of the most influential figures in 20th century American l
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Roger Zelazny517 - Roger Zelazny
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American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction (1937–1995). Signed book: The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories. Fi
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Emile Zola518 - Emile Zola
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Boldly penned ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, July 9, 1901. Letter to the French poet Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, conc...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland519 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Signed book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Limited edition, one of 50 copies specially bound by Paul Belard in red morocco ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ray Bradbury520 - Ray Bradbury
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Signed book: Witness and Celebrate. First edition, limited issue, numbered 34/100. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 2000. Clothbound hardcover, 8.25 x
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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William S. Burroughs521 - William S. Burroughs
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Unsigned book: Naked Lunch. First edition, first printing. NY: Grove Press, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 255 pages. Book condition: V
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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George Combe522 - George Combe
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Writer and advocate of phrenology (1788–1858) who founded the influential Edinburgh Phrenological Society. ALS signed “Geo Combe,” one page, 5 x 8, Se
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Roald Dahl523 - Roald Dahl
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Dahl working in his office, seated in a large armchair with a custom desktop, signed in the lower border in red felt tip, &qu...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Allen Ginsberg524 - Allen Ginsberg
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ALS, one page, 5.5 x 9, December 5, 1972. Ginsberg writes on the reverse side of a letter addressed to him by a college student who is "sickene...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Thomas Harris525 - Thomas Harris
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Two photos: a color 10 x 8 photo of Jodie Foster's image from the Silence of the Lambs movie poster, signed below in blue felt tip by Harris; an...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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