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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
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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4062Ernest HemingwayRR Auction
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
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
4063Ernest HemingwayRR Auction
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...
Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
4064John SteinbeckRR Auction
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
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
4065John SteinbeckRR Auction
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
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
4066Flannery O’ConnorRR Auction
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
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
4067Kurt VonnegutRR Auction
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
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
4068Ayn RandRR Auction
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:
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
4069Ayn RandRR Auction
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
Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
4070John UpdikeRR Auction
Enormous collection of John Updike’s personally-owned material gathered from outside his home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, including photographs,
Estimate : 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
4071Harper LeeRR Auction
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
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00