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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James Baldwin475 - James Baldwin
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Vintage matte-finish 8 x 5.25 close-up photo of a wide-eyed Baldwin smoking a cigarette, signed in black ballpoint, "Peace—James Baldwin."...
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Beat Poets476 - Beat Poets
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Signed book: The Portable Beat Reader. First edition. NY: Viking Press, 1992. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 642 pages. Signed on the first f
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Edward Bellamy477 - Edward Bellamy
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American author and socialist (1850–1898) most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, which inspired the formation of at least 165 'Nat...
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Stephen Vincent Benet478 - Stephen Vincent Benet
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American writer (1898–1943) best known for his stories 'The Devil and Daniel Webster' and 'By the Waters of Babylon' and for the nov...
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Ray Bradbury479 - Ray Bradbury
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Cardstock 11 x 8.5 photo of the sci-fi writer in his study, signed in the wide lower margin in brown felt tip, "Ray Bradbury, 12/29/06." I...
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William Cullen Bryant480 - William Cullen Bryant
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ALS signed “W. C. Bryant,” one page, 7.25 x 6.25, May 3, 1842. Letter to an autograph collector, in part: "I have been obliged, for want of tim...
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William Cullen Bryant481 - William Cullen Bryant
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Two AQSs from Bryant's great poems: one from 'Invitation to the Country' on an off-white 4.75 x 2 slip, in full: " 'No pampered...
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William Cullen Bryant482 - William Cullen Bryant
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ALS signed “W. C. Bryant,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 7.75, December 26, 1897. Letter to Dr. T. A. Cheney, in which Bryant declines t
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Edgar Rice Burroughs483 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Vintage fountain pen signature, "Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, Oct. 12, 1927," on an off-white 4.5 x 2.5 page. In fine condition.
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James M. Cain484 - James M. Cain
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American novelist (1892-1977) best known as the author of such crime/noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. TLS signed
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