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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Andre Malraux505 - Andre Malraux
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AQS in French on an off-white 4.75 x 3 card imprinted with his name, signed below, "Andre Malraux, 1976." An untranslated quote from his t...
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John Masefield506 - John Masefield
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Unsigned handwritten poem by John Masefield, two pages, each measuring 10 x 6, handsomely matted and framed together to an overall size of 14.5 x 18.
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W. Somerset Maugham507 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the bottom in fountain pen, "Somerset Maugham." An excerpt from The Summing Up, his lit...
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Henry Miller508 - Henry Miller
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Signed book: Hamlet. First edition, second printing. NY: Carrefour, 1943. Softcover, 5.25 x 7.5, 392 pages. Lengthily signed and inscribed on the firs
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Lewis Mumford509 - Lewis Mumford
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American writer, critic, and historian (1895–1990). Three letters by Mumford, including two ALSs and one TLS: the first ALS is one page, May 18, 1929,
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Vladimir Nabokov510 - Vladimir Nabokov
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Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 6 x 4.75, addressed by Nabokov to his French translator, "Monsieur Denis Roche, 11, Square de Port Royal, Pari...
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Sean O'Casey511 - Sean O'Casey
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ALS signed “Sean,” one page both sides, 5.5 x 7, 40 Trumlands Road letterhead, May 22, 1957. Letter to Philip Burton, in part: "For Christ'...
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John O'Hara512 - John O'Hara
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Desirable unsigned first edition book: Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara. First edition, first printing (with quotation credit tipped to ded...
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John O'Hara513 - John O'Hara
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American writer (1905–1970) who is best known for the novels Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. DS, one page, 8.5 x 11, October 29, 1957. Offic
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Clifford Odets514 - Clifford Odets
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 10.5, personal letterhead, October 6, 1935. Letter to "Mr. Parker," in part: "Thanks for your copies of Stage. I...
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