RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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RR Auction's March Fine Autograph and Artifact sale is highlighted by a featured literature section, offering a remarkable array of autographs from literary legends—from American icons like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and Henry David Thoreau, to world-renowned authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Victor Hugo, Vladimir Nabokov, and Maxim Gorky, it is a robust selection of exemplary material. Political leaders are also well-represented, with outstanding items including signatures of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, autograph letters by Vladimir Lenin, a letter signed by Sun Yat-sen, and a superb George Washington document associated with the Revolutionary War. Rounding out the catalog are items from the realms of music, Hollywood, sports, art, space, and aviation. 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 March 2019.
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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Willa Cather403 - Willa Cather
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Unsigned handwritten poem by Willa Cather entitled "Tile Pictures (To a Little Girl)," penned on two off-white 5.75 x 9 sheets. Comprising...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Raymond Chandler404 - Raymond Chandler
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Desirable unsigned book: The High Window. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover with dust jacket (publisher's printed price of $2....
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Raymond Chandler405 - Raymond Chandler
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Scarce unsigned book: The Lady in the Lake. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Hardcover with dust jacket (publisher's printed price of $...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Raymond Chandler406 - Raymond Chandler
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Sought-after unsigned book: The Big Sleep. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Hardcover with facsimile dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.75, 277 pages. Boo
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Raymond Chandler407 - Raymond Chandler
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TLS signed “Ray,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, August 6, 1947. Letter to "Swanie," his agent H. N. Swanson, in part: "I s...
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Francois Rene de Chateaubriand408 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand
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Writer, politician, diplomat, and historian (1768–1848) considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. LS in French, signed “Chateaubrian
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Samuel L. Clemens409 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Third-person ALS signed within the text, “S. L. Clemens,” one page, 4.5 x 7, October 17, 1887. In full: "Mr. S. L. Clemens thanks the Berkshire...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens410 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Bold ink signature, "Mark Twain,” on an off-white 3 x 1.75 card. Handsomely matted and framed with a reproduction of Charles Noel Flagg's p...
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Jean Cocteau411 - Jean Cocteau
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Unsigned handwritten poem in French by Jean Cocteau on an of-white 8.25 x 10.5 sheet. The poem, entitled "Soleils," reads, in part (transl...
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William Cowper412 - William Cowper
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English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800) who was one of the most popular poets of his time and an influential forerunner of Romantic poetry. ALS, one pa
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Charles L. Dodgson413 - Charles L. Dodgson
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ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” one page, 4.5 x 6, July 13, 1892. Letter to Mrs. Mallalieu, in full: "We had a fine afternoon at Cyril Iford, &...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens414 - Charles Dickens
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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, July 23, 1857. Written from Tavistock House, a letter to a Mr. Dinney, in full: "As I reside i...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle415 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS, signed "A. Conan Doyle," one page, 5 x 7, Hôtel Métropole letterhead, no date. Doyle writes to an unnamed actor, in full: &...
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle416 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 5 x 8, The Psychic Book Shop, Library & Museum letterhead, August 9, [no year but circa 1927]. Letter to ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Alexandre Dumas, pere417 - Alexandre Dumas, pere
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Distinguished French novelist (1802–1870) of such historical classics as The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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George Eliot418 - George Eliot
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Pseudonym of Marian Evans Lewes (1819–1880) who, as the author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch, is remembered as one of the great figures of English l
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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T. S. Eliot420 - T. S. Eliot
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TLS, one page, 7 x 8, Faber and Faber Limited letterhead, June 26, 1951. Letter to Georges Markow, in full: "I have your letter of June 20th. W...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald421 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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ALS signed “Scott Fitz,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, Grove Park Inn letterhead, no date but circa July 1935. Letter to artist Don Swann, in full: "If ...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald422 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Extremely rare First National Bank check, 7.75 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Fitzgerald, "F. Scott Fitzgerald," payable to...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald423 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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TLS signed “Scott,” one page, 8.5 x 11, June 19, 1936. Letter to his literary agent Harold Ober, in full: "Do you think this is any good? I tho...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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