RR Auction: January Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

Signed book: Art & Lifestyle. First edition, first printing. NY: Felicie, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 9.75 x 13, 285 pages. Signed on the ...

DS, fifteen pages, 8.5 x 11, September 16, 1970. Agreement between Nabokov “(the ‘Author’)” and “Norman Twain c/o Fitelson & Mayers…(hereinafter...

Hand-colored matte-finish 3 x 3.75 photo of a country scene affixed to a 7 x 9 mount, signed on the mount in black ink. In very good condition, with t

French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker (1895-1974). Vintage matte-finish 7.75 x 10.5 photo by G.L. Manuel Freres, and affixed to its original 8.5

Writer and critic (1893–1967) best known for her often cruelly witty and cynical tone. Vintage fountain pen signature and inscription, “To Winifred—wi

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, March 22, 1934. Letter to a gentleman looking for Parrish’s comments. In part: “I dislike publicity in a

Renowned American painter (1778–1860) regarded as one of the finest portrait artists of his day. One of several artist brothers named by their father

Three postcard photos: one 6 x 4.25 photo of Andy Warhol kissing Salvador Dali, by Christopher Makos, signed in gold ink, “Makos”; one 6 x 4.25 photo

Signed book: Picasso: The Recent Years 1939–1946. Limited edition of 350 copies (this being No. 121). NY: Doubleday, 1947. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11, 211 p

American modernist writer and critic (1885–1972) whose works, particularly his poetry, occupy a central place in the twentieth-century canon. Vintage

Signed book: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Later printing. NY: Random House, 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.5, 242

Writer (1839–1908) best remembered as the lyricist of the song, ‘Maryland, My Maryland.’ Vintage ink signature, “James R. Randall,” on an off-white 3.

Writer best remembered as the lyricist of the song, ‘Maryland, My Maryland.’ AQS, one page on an 8.5 x 11 sheet, The Augusta Chronicle letterhead, Aug

Vintage ink signature, “Ripley, ‘Believe It or Not,’ 1936,” on an off-white 5.25 x 3.25 card. In fine condition, with mild overall toning.

Two hardcover books, The Tale of the Body Thief and Taltos, each signed on the title page in black ink. In fine condition.

AQS, signed “James Whitcomb Riley,” on an off-white 4.5 x 3.5 card. Riley pens a couplet from his poem ‘The All-Kind Mother,’ first published in 1889:

Rare photographic reproduction, 6.25 x 10.5, of one of Renoir’s paintings of a nude woman kneeling, signed in the lower border in black ink, “Renoir.”

Color limited edition 14 x 17 print of the literary band, numbered #182/270, signed in ballpoint and ink by Stephen King, Amy Tan, Dave Barry, Scott T

Rock band, comprised of Steven King and other well-known writers, that first performed at the American Booksellers Association’s annual convention to

Ballpoint signature and inscription, “My best wishes to Edwin S. Brooks, sincerely, Norman Rockwell,” on an off-white 5 x 3 card. In fine condition, w