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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Vladimir Nabokov444 - Vladimir Nabokov
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Uncommon ALS in French, signed “V. Nabokoff,” one page, 5.75 x 4, January 13, 1936. Letter to his French translator Denis Roche, in part (roughly tran
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Boris Pasternak445 - Boris Pasternak
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ALS signed “B. Pasternak,” one page, 8 x 10, May 5, 1959. Pasternak responds to a letter from the addressee stating that all reviewers of his book, Do
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Ezra Pound446 - Ezra Pound
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ALS, one page, 8.75 x 11, June 9. Written from Österreichischer Hof in Vienna, a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, in full: "I ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Marcel Proust447 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the monumental sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world litera
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Marcel Proust448 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the monumental sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world litera
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger449 - J. D. Salinger
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Sought-after unsigned first edition book: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. First edition, first printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company,
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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George Sand450 - George Sand
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Untranslated ALS in French, signed “G. Sand,” one page, 5.25 x 8, August 22, 1863. In very good condition, with light toning, overall creasing, and re
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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George Sand451 - George Sand
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ALS in French, signed “G. Sand,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 4.75, January 24, 1872. A letter to a friend, in part (translated): "H...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Carl Sandburg452 - Carl Sandburg
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Collection of early handwritten manuscript fragments by Carl Sandburg, unsigned, totaling 26 pages, ranging in size from 6.5 x 8.5 to 11 x 13, no date
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre453 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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ALS in French, signed “J. P. Sartre,” one page, 6.75 x 9, August 11, [no year]. Written from the Hotel La Louisiane in Paris, Sartre reports that his
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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