Auction Details
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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21Theodore RooseveltRR Auction
World War I-dated TLS, one page, 8.5 x 10.25, May 12, 1915. Written from Walnut Park in Syracuse, a letter to noted book publisher Irving Putnam, in f
Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
22Theodore RooseveltRR Auction
Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 20.25, December 26, 1901. President Roosevelt appoints Samuel B. Pearson as "First Lie...
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
23Theodore RooseveltRR Auction
TLS, one page, 6.5 x 7.75, The Outlook letterhead, May 5, 1911. Letter to Edward B. Clark, in full; "I thank you for your note, and am interest...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
24William H. TaftRR Auction
Striking oversized matte-finish 9.75 x 11.75 portrait of Taft taken by Pach Bros. in 1908, affixed to its original 13.5 x 16.75 studio mount, signed a
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
25Woodrow WilsonRR Auction
Huge matte-finish 14.75 x 18 photo of President Wilson signing a document with his private secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty by his side, signed in fou
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
26Calvin CoolidgeRR Auction
Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 20, December 27, 1926. President Coolidge appoints Paul L. Reed as a "Civil Engineer in the N...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
27Herbert HooverRR Auction
ALS, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, August 12, 1930. Letter to "Mr. Thomas Edison, West Orange, N.J.," in full: "I have ...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
28Franklin D. RooseveltRR Auction
Original pencil sketch by Franklin D. Roosevelt showing the White House librarian, Mary Eben, kissing a man named Louie, accomplished on a brown 7 x 9
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
29Franklin D. RooseveltRR Auction
Fantastic matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of President Roosevelt meeting with five-year-old Phyllis Smith to kick off the annual Red Cross roll call, neatly
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
30Franklin D. RooseveltRR Auction
Unusual vintage matte-finish 6.75 x 9.25 photo of Roosevelt wearing a kingly makeshift robe and crown and holding fireplace tongs, signed and inscribe
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
31Harry S. TrumanRR Auction
TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, December 18, 1945. Letter to Barnet Nover of the Washington Post, in full: "I app...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
32Harry S. TrumanRR Auction
Impressive printed World War II proclamation, one page, 14.75 x 21.75, May 8, 1945. A lithographic proclamation, issued the day following the German s
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
33Harry S. TrumanRR Auction
ALS, one page, 6.5 x 8.5, personal letterhead, July 24, 1958. Letter to the Hon. Robert P. Weatherford, the mayor of Truman's hometown, Independ...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
34Harry S. TrumanRR Auction
Press release, five pages on four sheets, 8 x 14, January 19, 1949. Mimeographed press release of Harry S. Truman's inaugural address, signed at...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
35Dwight D. EisenhowerRR Auction
Souvenir typescript of General Dwight Eisenhower’s Order of the Day on June 6, 1944, delivered upon the D-Day invasion of France, 5.5 x 8.75, removed
Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
36Dwight D. EisenhowerRR Auction
TLS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, March 20, 1958. Letter to Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy, in full: "I have ...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
37Dwight D. EisenhowerRR Auction
Uncommon TMS, 8.25 x 13.25, January 10, 1957. An original White House manuscript of Eisenhower's annual message to the Congress on the State of ...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
38John F. KennedyRR Auction
Handsome matte-finish 7.5 x 9.25 photo of Kennedy taken after being nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate in August of 1960, affixed to t
Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
39John F. KennedyRR Auction
ALS signed “Jack Kennedy, Lt. USNR,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 10.5, postmarked February 23, 1944. Written from Boston's New England Baptist H...
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
40John F. KennedyRR Auction
John F. Kennedy's personally-owned and -used leather golf club cover, 10.5? in length, consisting of soft brown leather covers with stitched off...
Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00