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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Zane Grey495 - Zane Grey
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ALS signed “Zane,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, April 4. Letter to "Bill" about Western films based on his work, in part: "The picture Wago...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Edward Everett Hale496 - Edward Everett Hale
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American author and Unitarian clergyman (1822–1909) remembered for his short story 'The Man Without a Country.' AQS on an off-white 3.5 x 2....
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Alex Haley497 - Alex Haley
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Signed book: The Autobiography of Malcolm X. First edition. NY: Grove Press, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 455 pages. Signed and insc
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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John Hersey498 - John Hersey
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Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and journalist (1914–1993) considered one of the earliest practitioners of 'New Journalism.' ALS, one page, 6....
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr499 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “O. W. Holmes,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 3.5, September 26, 1893. Letter to Miss Somerville, in full: "I find it next to impossibl...
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Julia Ward Howe500 - Julia Ward Howe
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ALS signed “Julia W. Howe,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, December 17, 1886. Letter to "Mary," in part: "I am sorry and t...
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William Dean Howells501 - William Dean Howells
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ALS signed “W. D. Howells,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 6.75, personal letterhead, January 23, 1910. Letter to Mrs. John Winters Brannan
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George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart502 - George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
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Two TLSs by the comedic collaborators: one by George S. Kaufman, signed "George," one page, personal letterhead, no date, to "Ferbus&...
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Selma Lagerlof503 - Selma Lagerlof
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Swedish writer (1858–1940) who, in 1909, became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Postcard photo of Lagerlof's Marbacka man...
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Sinclair Lewis504 - Sinclair Lewis
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, October 6. Letter to "Mr. Phillips," in full: "The book came this morning, and I am mailing it back to you w...
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