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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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr526 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes,” one page, 4.25 x 7, 296 Beacon Street letterhead, October 23, 1883. In full: "Please accept my thanks for y...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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L. Ron Hubbard527 - L. Ron Hubbard
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Pulp and science-fiction author (1911-1986) who became a lightning rod for controversy as the founder of the Church of Scientology. TLS signed “Ron,”
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Stephen King528 - Stephen King
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Two books: a copy of Pet Semetary, published by Doubleday & Company in 1983, hardcover with dust jacket, signed and inscribed on the title page ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow529 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ink signature, "Henry W. Longfellow, 1880," on an off-white 4.5 x 2.25 slip affixed inside a vintage leather-bound 6.75 x 4 autograph book...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Donald Grant Mitchell530 - Donald Grant Mitchell
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American writer (1822–1908) who usually wrote under the pseudonym Ik Marvel, best known for his 1850 novel of rural life, Reveries of a Bachelor. Matt
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Robert W. Service531 - Robert W. Service
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British-Canadian poet and writer (1874-1958) known for his vivid descriptions of the Yukon territory during the Klondike gold rush. TLS, one page, 8.2
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Erich von Däniken532 - Erich von Däniken
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Swiss author (born 1935) whose works posit claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Gahan Wilson533 - Gahan Wilson
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American cartoonist (born 1930) best known for his drawings for The New Yorker. Signed book: Everybody’s Favorite Duck. First edition, first printing.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John Wyndham534 - John Wyndham
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Unsigned book: The Day of the Triffids. First American edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 222 pages. Book
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Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
 
 
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Leopold Auer535 - Leopold Auer
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Hungarian violinist, conductor, and composer (1845–1930) who was renowned as a violin teacher; among his top students were Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Mils
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Max Bruch536 - Max Bruch
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German composer (1838-1920) who wrote over 200 works, including staples of the violin repertoire. Scarce AMQS on an off-white 7.25 x 4.5 sheet, signed
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Anton Bruckner537 - Anton Bruckner
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Important Austrian composer (1824–1896) whose symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism. Rare ALS in German
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Enrico Caruso538 - Enrico Caruso
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Pair of untranslated ALSs in Italian on individual 5.5 x 3.5 postcards, one dated October 24, 1904, and the other postmarked November 18, 1904. In ove
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Enrico Caruso539 - Enrico Caruso
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Fantastic original self-portrait sketch by Caruso, showing himself in profile, accomplished in ink on an off-white 7.5 x 5.75 sheet, signed in the low
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Gaetano Donizetti540 - Gaetano Donizetti
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Italian composer (1797-1848) known as a leading composer of the bel canto opera style. Untranslated ALS in French, signed “Donizetti,” one page, 5.25
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Fromental Halevy541 - Fromental Halevy
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French composer of over thirty operas, best known for La Juive (1799-1862). Lengthy AMQS on an off-white 11.75 x 8.75 musically lined sheet, signed at
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Ruggero Leoncavallo542 - Ruggero Leoncavallo
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Unusual dual AMQS on an off-white 7.5 x 5.75 sheet, signed and dated twice, "R. Leoncavallo, Brissago 18 Sept. 1908," and "R. Leoncav...
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Franz Liszt543 - Franz Liszt
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Rare AMQS on an off-white 10 x 6.5 musically lined sheet, signed and inscribed in French in black ink, "F. Liszt, A Madame Henriette Fuchs—affe...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini544 - Giacomo Puccini
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Vintage matte-finish 3.75 x 5.25 head-and-shoulders portrait of Puccini, signed and inscribed in fountain pen in Italian, "Giacomo Puccini, New...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Dmitri Shostakovich545 - Dmitri Shostakovich
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Soviet composer (1906–1975) whose fifteen symphonies occupy a place of central performance in the orchestral literature of the twentieth century. Outs
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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