RR Auction: Literary Rarities

Signed book: Gone with the Wind. First edition, first printing. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Rebound hardcover, 6.25 x 9, 1037 pages. Signed on th

TLS signed in pencil, “Peggy,” five pages, 7 x 11, January 5, 1932. Letter to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Marsh, in part: “One of my good resolutions this

TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” two pages, 7 x 10.75, personal letterhead, February 19, 1940. Letter to Robert Saltmarsh, a New Bedford, Massach

Influential African-American author (1909–1960) whose work often addressed race relations in the United States. Signed book: Native Son. Second issue.

Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. First edition, limited issue, numbered 216/510. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover bound in paper and...

Signed book: A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway by Louis Henry Cohn. First edition, limited issue, numbered 321/500. NY: Random House, 19

Signed book: For Whom the Bells Tolls. First edition, later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 47...

Exceptional vintage matte-finish 4 x 6 photo of the author posing next to a huge marlin, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint to famed restaurateur

The Old Man and the Sea. First edition, first printing (with “A” and Scribner’s seal on copyright page); in original dust jacket (with $3.00 price int

TLS signed “Yours, Ernest,” one onionskin page both sides, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia letterhead, no date but postmarked May 21, 1953. Letter to Charles Po

ALS signed “Ernest,” three pages, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia letterhead, February 7, 1953. Letter to Charles Poore, a New York Times literary critic who wr

Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Hardcover rebound in half leather, 5.5 x 8.5, 343 pages. Sig...

Signed book: East of Eden. Limited first edition of 1500 copies. NY: Viking Press, 1952. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.25 x 9.25, 602 pages. Signed on th

Handwritten poem, unsigned, one page, 8 x 12.5, no date. Steinbeck pens a sixteen-line poem, in full: “Gull-screaming rock, Sea lion rock / Save my lo

Rare Christmas card featuring a color image of ornaments dangling from a tree, measuring 4.75 x 3 closed, signed inside in blue ballpoint, “We’re wait

Signed book: Player Piano. First edition, first printing (with “A” and Scribner’s seal on copyright page); in original dust jacket (with $3.00 price i

Atlas Shrugged. First edition, first printing; in original dust jacket (with “10/57” on front flap and publisher’s name and address on rear flap). NY:

Extraordinarily rare matte-finish 10.75 x 13.75 portrait of Rand, nicely signed and inscribed against the light background in fountain pen, “To Carl S

Enormous collection of John Updike’s personally-owned material gathered from outside his home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, including photographs,

Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. 40th anniversary edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 323 pages. Signed on t

Signed book: Hell’s Angels. First edition, first printing. NY: Random House, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 278 pages. Signed and inscribe

Signed book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. First edition, first printing. NY: Viking Press, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 311 page

DS, signed “Thomas Pynchon,” one page, 7.75 x 12.75, November 24, 1966. Memorandum of an agreement in which Pynchon grants the publishing company Gyld

ALS signed “Agatha Christie Mallowan,” one page both sides, 5.5 x 7, Winterbrook House, Wallingford letterhead, May 27, no year. Letter to Mr. Riline,

ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” four pages, 4.5 x 7, The Reform Club letterhead, October 9, 1900. Letter to the editor of The Scotsman newspaper, in part

Signed book: The Complete Dashiell Hammett. Later printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover, 5 x 7.5. Boldly signed and inscribed on the first fr

TLS signed “Yours sincerely, Ian Fleming,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, October 25, 1949. Letter to journalist and spy Anton

Unsigned book: Casino Royale. First American edition, first printing. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket (priced at $2.75), 5

Rare unsigned book: Moonraker. First edition, first printing (with “shoot” on page 10, and a 19 mm text block). London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Hardcover

Unsigned book: Diamonds Are Forever. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.5, 252 pages. Book condition: VG/

Unsigned book: From Russia With Love. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket (priced at 13s 6d), 5.25

Unsigned book: Dr. No. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket (priced at 13s 6d), 5.25 x 7.5, 256 page

Unsigned book: Goldfinger. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.5, 318 pages. Book conditi

Unsigned book: For Your Eyes Only. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket (priced at 15s), 5.25 x 7.5,

Unsigned book: Thunderball. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.5, 254 pages. Book condit

Unsigned book: The Spy Who Loved Me. First edition, first printing (not the quad mark variant). London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacke

Unsigned book: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Hardcover with a bright, bold dust jacket

Unsigned book: You Only Live Twice. First edition, second state. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Hardcover with dust jacket (priced at 16s), 5.25 x 7.5,

Unsigned book: The Man With the Golden Gun. First edition, first printing (without the embossed golden gun). London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Hardcover wi

Unsigned book: Octopussy and the Living Daylights. First edition, first printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket (with revise

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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French writer (1811–1872) of drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism who was widely influential in the development of modernism. Rare ALS in French, thr

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

Four signed items, including a verse and three letters: an autograph stanza from his poem ‘On Music,’ signed “Thomas Moore,” affixed opposite the half

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

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

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—

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

Signed book: The Trembling of the Veil. First edition, limited issue, numbered 792/1000. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1922. Hardcover with dust jac