RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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With more than 1,000 lots, RR Auction’s May Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction features an impressive assortment of historic collectibles. This month includes a special Literature section, with rare and significant items such as an illustrated, autographed manuscript of Hermann Hesse’s "Piktor's Verwandlungen"; Anton Chekhov's “Stories and Tales,” inscribed; a handwritten quotation from Guo Moruo; and many more top authors like Joyce, Tolkien, Orwell, Sartre, Sendak and Whitman. The Music section features incredible original artwork by Frederic Chopin; a 350-page “Who’s Who in Rock & Roll,” signed by hundreds of the genre’s greatest musicians; and a fully signed Beatles autograph with additional, rare signature from Ray Charles. This catalog also includes items from US History, Space, Art, Entertainment and more. 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 May 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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Robert Lowell203 - Robert Lowell
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Group of four books by Lowell: a third printing of Life Studies, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in 1960, signed an
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Thomas Mann204 - Thomas Mann
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Signed book: Nocturnes. Limited edition, numbered 279/1000. NY: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1934. Hardcover with slipcase, 6 x 8.75, 61 pages. Signed o
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Thomas Mann205 - Thomas Mann
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Signed book: The Tables of the Law. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 63 pages. Signed on the first fre
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Edwin Markham206 - Edwin Markham
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Vintage matte-finish 11 x 14 studio portrait of Markham, signed in the lower border in fountain pen, “Edwin Markham, April 10, 1927.” Lower border is
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W. S. Merwin207 - W. S. Merwin
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Group of four books by Merwin, including three signed volumes: a softcover first edition of The Moving Target, published by Atheneum in 1963, signed o
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W. S. Merwin208 - W. S. Merwin
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Group of three signed first edition books by Merwin: a first edition of Houses and Travellers, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Atheneum in 19
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Arthur Miller209 - Arthur Miller
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Souvenir typescript of the opening from Death of a Salesman, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the top in blue ballpoint by Miller. In part: "Linda...
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Arthur Miller210 - Arthur Miller
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Playbill for Death of a Salesman at the Broadhurst Theatre in March 1984, Vol. 2, No. 6, 82 pages, 5.75 x 8.5, signed on the front cover in blue felt
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Henry Miller211 - Henry Miller
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, January, no year. Written from Big Sur, California, a letter to Jack Hiner, in part: "Just wrote a note to my friend B...
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Frederic Mistral212 - Frederic Mistral
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French poet (1830-1914) who shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature. Wonderful matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 postcard photo of Mistral seated, smoking, an
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Vladimir Nabokov213 - Vladimir Nabokov
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Unsigned first edition book: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. First American edition. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. Hardcover with price-clipped dus...
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Nobel Prize Winners: Literature214 - Nobel Prize Winners: Literature
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Group of six photos of Nobel Prize–winning authors, measuring approximately 4 x 6, each signed in ink by the subject, including: Harold Pinter, Gunter
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Nobel Prize Winners: Literature215 - Nobel Prize Winners: Literature
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Desirable collection of 23 items signed by Nobel Prize–winning writers, mostly comprising letters, signatures, and typescripts, with signers including
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Charles Nodier216 - Charles Nodier
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Influential French author and librarian (1780–1844) who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, a
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Baroness Emma Orczy217 - Baroness Emma Orczy
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British writer and artist (1865–1947) best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Fabulous matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 postcard ph
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George Orwell218 - George Orwell
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Unsigned first edition book: Animal Farm by George Orwell. First American edition. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Hardcover with clipped dust
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John Howard Payne219 - John Howard Payne
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American actor and author (1791–1852) who achieved theatrical success in London, best remembered as the creator of the song ‘Home! Sweet Home!’ in 182
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Walker Percy220 - Walker Percy
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Signed book: Bourbon. Limited edition, numbered 26/150. Winston-Salem, NC: Palaemon Press, 1981. Hardcover, 6.5 x 10.25, 8 pages. Signed on the coloph
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Luigi Pirandello221 - Luigi Pirandello
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Uncommon vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 photo postcard of Pirandello in profile, neatly signed across the top in fountain pen. Mounted and matted to a
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Sylvia Plath222 - Sylvia Plath
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Unsigned first edition book: The Colossus by Sylvia Plath. First edition. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1960. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.75, 88 pages. Book
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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