RR Auction: Literary Rarities

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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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John Gardner4092 - John Gardner
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Excellent set of six James Bond novels written by John Gardner, each a first edition from Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 5.25 x 8, hardco...
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Mario Puzo4093 - Mario Puzo
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Theophile Gautier4094 - Theophile Gautier
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French writer (1811–1872) of drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism who was widely influential in the development of modernism. Rare ALS in French, thr
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Rainer Maria Rilke4095 - Rainer Maria Rilke
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ALS in German, signed “Rilke,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.5 x 8, January 22, 1919. Letter to Grete Gulbransson, Austrian writer and the de
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Thomas Moore4096 - Thomas Moore
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Four signed items, including a verse and three letters: an autograph stanza from his poem ‘On Music,’ signed “Thomas Moore,” affixed opposite the half
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Robert Burns4097 - Robert Burns
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Partly-printed DS, signed “Rob’t Burns,” one page, 6 x 4, March 1, 1793. An official document filled out by Burns as the exciseman for Dumfries, Scotl
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti4098 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Signed book: Ballads and Sonnets. First edition. London: Ellis and White, 1881. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.725, 335 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-ti
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Robert Browning4099 - Robert Browning
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ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Warwick Crescent letterhead, February 15, 1886. Letter to Marc-Andre Raffalovich, in full: “You are,—as ever,—kindness itself—
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William Butler Yeats4100 - William Butler Yeats
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ALS signed “W. B. Yeats,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, July 30, no year but circa late 1910s. Letter to Mr. O’Brien. In part: “I have now got the authorised
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William Butler Yeats4101 - William Butler Yeats
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Signed book: The Trembling of the Veil. First edition, limited issue, numbered 792/1000. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1922. Hardcover with dust jac
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