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Headquartered in Amherst, NH, RR Auction is globally recognized as the trusted source for authentic autographed memorabilia and rare signed documents. Since its inception in 1976, the firm has published close to 360 consecutive monthly autograph catalogs, which are distributed internationally. The firm recently auctioned the autographed photo of Albert Einstein with his tongue wagging for a record $74,340 and the check astronaut Neil Armstrong signed the day he left for the moon for $27,350.
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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William Cullen Bryant481 - William Cullen Bryant
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Highly regarded American poet (1794–1878) of the much-anthologized “Thanatopsis.” Apart from his literary activities, Bryant was als
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Edward Burne-Jones483 - Edward Burne-Jones
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British artist and designer (1833-1898) closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Ink signature, “E. Burne-Jones...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs484 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Bank check, 7.75 x 3.25, filled out and signed by Burroughs, payable to Adelaide Nicely for $32.50, April 30, 1936. Three vertical folds, two through
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Edgar Rice Burroughs485 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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American novelist (1875–1950) best known for his popular series of novels based on feral-child-turned-jungle hero Tarzan. Vintage pearl-finish 8
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Karel Capek486 - Karel Capek
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One of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the word “robot,” which first appeared in hi
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Truman Capote487 - Truman Capote
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ALS signed “T,” on a 5.75 x 3.75 deckle-edge picture postcard of Costa Brava, April 29, to his high school teacher and friend, Catherine W
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Dale Carnegie488 - Dale Carnegie
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Author and lecturer (1888–1955) whose motivational book How to Win Friends and Influence People became one of the best-selling nonfiction works
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Marc Chagall489 - Marc Chagall
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Superb color 4.25 x 6 postcard photo of Chagall’s 1934 work The Bride’s Chair, signed in the lower border in blue ballpoint. In very fine
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Jean Charlot490 - Jean Charlot
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French painter and illustrator (1898–1979). Vintage printed Christmas card featuring a tipped-on color reproduction of a work by Charlot, 5.25 x
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Samuel L. Clemens491 - Samuel L. Clemens
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ALS signed “Clemens,” one page, lightly-lined both sides, 5 x 8, October 26, [1870]. Letter written to “Friend Bliss.” In part
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Samuel L. Clemens492 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Ink signature, “Yrs truly, Mark Twain,” on an off-white 3.25 x 1.75 card. In very good condition, with tape toning to two corners, and som
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Jean Cocteau493 - Jean Cocteau
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Versatile French poet, playwright, film director, and artist (1889–1963); among his best-known works are the novel Les Enfants Terrible and the
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Jean Cocteau494 - Jean Cocteau
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Vintage glossy 7 x 9.5 photo, signed in fountain pen, “Souvenir de Jean Cocteau, 1952.” In very good condition, with subtle rippling, scat
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Jean Cocteau495 - Jean Cocteau
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Signed book: Les Parents Terribles. Later printing. Paris: Gallimard, 1938. Leatherbound hardcover, 4.75 x 7.25, 251 pages. Signed and inscribed in Fr
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Jean Cocteau496 - Jean Cocteau
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ALS in French, one page, 8.5 x 11, Santo-Sospir letterhead, March 24, 1963. Boldly penned letter to a friend. In full: “Dear Sir: Sadly, these a
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Camille Corot498 - Camille Corot
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French landscape painter identified with the Barbizon School. ALS in French, signed “C. Corot,” one page, 4.25 x 5.25, no date. Brief untr
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Noël Coward499 - Noël Coward
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Signed book: Present Indicative. Limited edition of 301 copies (this copy No. 173). NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. Hardcover with slipcase, 6
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Noël Coward500 - Noël Coward
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Hardbound printed musical score to Bitter Sweet, 9 x 11.25, 163 pages. Signed and inscribed on the inside color title page, “For M. Galliard, Wi
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Edward S. Curtis501 - Edward S. Curtis
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Photographer. He traveled across North America to take stylized portraits of Native Americans from 80 different tribes in traditional dress, publishin
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Caran d’Ache502 - Caran d’Ache
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French political cartoonist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ALS in French, one page, 4.75 x 7.5, no date. A decoratively penned lette
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Raoul Dufy503 - Raoul Dufy
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French painter (1877–1953) best known for his colorful depictions of such outdoor social events as regattas, horse races, and the like. ALS, one
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August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben504 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
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German poet (1798–1874) best known as the author of “Das Lied der Deutschen” (a.k.a. “Deutschland über alles”), the
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Arthur Conan Doyle505 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS, one page, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, December 30, 1910. Letter to an unidentified gentleman. In full: “I should be much indebted to you if
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Arthur Conan Doyle506 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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Limited edition Crowborough Edition of the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 24 volumes, #141/760, NY. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. Signed in bl
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F. Scott Fitzgerald507 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Fitzgerald was the self-sty
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William Faulkner508 - William Faulkner
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Signed book: Notes on a Horse Thief. Special limited edition of 975 copies (this No. 529). Greenville, Mississippi: Levee Press, 1950. Hardcover, 6 x
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Ian Fleming510 - Ian Fleming
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Former British intelligence officer (1908–1964) whose novels featuring suave spy James Bond have attained unprecedented and seemingly indestruct
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E. M. Forster512 - E. M. Forster
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British writer (1879–1970) best known for such novels as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Scarce ALS, 4.5 x 6.75, July 2
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Allen Ginsberg513 - Allen Ginsberg
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Highly influential American poet (1926–1997) whose energetic, free-associative, often homoerotically charged verse made him one of the leading...
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Allen Ginsberg514 - Allen Ginsberg
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Souvenir typescript, signed in black ink, “5/17/84, Allen Ginsberg,” one page, 6 x 9. The poem begins, “I feel as if I am at a dead
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Thomas Gray515 - Thomas Gray
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Canonical British poet and scholar (1716–1771) best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which introduced to the English languag
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Kate Greenaway516 - Kate Greenaway
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British children’s author and illustrator (1846–1901) whose distinctively illustrated books were among the most popular “juvenile&...
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Johnny Gruelle517 - Johnny Gruelle
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American writer and illustrator (1880–1938) whose stories featuring the rag dolls Raggedy Ann and Andy take a place among the most beloved and b
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Horace Greeley518 - Horace Greeley
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ALS, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, April 20, 1852. Letter to Henry David Thoreau. In full: “I have yours of the 17th. I am rather sorry you will not do t
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Keith Haring520 - Keith Haring
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Original felt tip sketch on a 6.5 x 3.5 First Day Cover featuring a cachet with a printed color image by influential 1980’s artist and social ac
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Keith Haring521 - Keith Haring
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American artist (1958–1990) whose graffiti-inspired outline drawings of human figures and animals made him one of the most recognizable and ubiq
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Heinrich Harrer522 - Heinrich Harrer
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Recently deceased boyhood tutor of the Dalai Lama. ANS, on a 6 x 4 picture postcard, no date. In full: “No more climbing! My son is working for
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Nathaniel Hawthorne523 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Influential American author (1804–1864) best known for such classic novels as The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables. Partly-printed D
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Hermann Hesse524 - Hermann Hesse
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Influential, Nobel Prize–winning German author of such modern classics as Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927). Vintage 4 x 5.75 postcard ph
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Al Hirschfeld525 - Al Hirschfeld
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Printed Hirschfeld image of Elvis on an 8 x 10 card bearing an Elvis postage stamp and first-day cancellation, signed in pencil “Hirschfeld.&a...
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John Clellon Holmes526 - John Clellon Holmes
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Author, poet and professor (1926-1988), best known for his 1952 novel Go. TLS signed “John,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, June
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Winslow Homer527 - Winslow Homer
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Esteemed American painter (1836–1910) whose supreme skill in depicting the landscape and culture of nineteenth-century America earned him a plac
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Edmund Hoyle528 - Edmund Hoyle
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British writer (1672–1769) whose best-selling codifications of the rules for the most popular card games of his day led to the familiar authorit
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Rockwell Kent529 - Rockwell Kent
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Visually stunning print, 6.25 x 9.25, entitled On Earth Peace depicting an angel in native Alaskan dress, signed in the lower border in black ink. In
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Henrik Ibsen530 - Henrik Ibsen
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Revered Norwegian playwright and poet (1828–1906) whose works, including A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, made him one of the seminal figu
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Ken Kesey531 - Ken Kesey
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Signed book: The Further Inquiry. First edition, first printing. NY: Viking Press, 1990. Hardcover with dustjacket, 7.75 x 9.5, 215 pages. Signed on t
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Paul Klee533 - Paul Klee
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Important Swiss-German artist (1879–1940) whose works incorporate a number of the most influential movements of the day, including Surrealism, E
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Jack Kerouac534 - Jack Kerouac
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Signed book: Visions of Cody. Special limited edition of 750 copies (this being #273). NY: Igal Roodenko, 1960. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 128 pages. Signe
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Walt Kuhn535 - Walt Kuhn
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American painter (1877-1949) and organizer of the modern art Armory Show of 1913, which was the first of its genre in America. DS, two pages, 8 x 13,
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John le Carré536 - John le Carré
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the bottom in blue ink. The opening passages of The Honourable Schoolboy beginning: “Afterwar
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