RR Auction: Literary Rarities

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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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Ernest Hemingway4062Ernest Hemingway
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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
Ernest Hemingway4063Ernest Hemingway
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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
John Steinbeck4064John Steinbeck
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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
John Steinbeck4065John Steinbeck
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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
Flannery O’Connor4066Flannery O’Connor
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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
Kurt Vonnegut4067Kurt Vonnegut
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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
Ayn Rand4068Ayn Rand
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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
Ayn Rand4069Ayn Rand
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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
John Updike4070John Updike
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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
Harper Lee4071Harper Lee
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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