RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

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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 over 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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Wallace Nutting770 - Wallace Nutting
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Minister, artist, and antiquarian (1861–1941) known primarily for his scenic, hand-colored photographs. TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11, illustrated personal
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Georgia O’Keeffe771 - Georgia O’Keeffe
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Color postcard of O’Keeffe’s 1931 work entitled ‘Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses,’ 6 x 4, signed on the reverse in black felt tip. In fine condition, wi
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Maxfield Parrish772 - Maxfield Parrish
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Signed book: Practical Applications of Dynamic Symmetry by Jay Hambidge. First edition, first printing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932. Hardco
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I. M. Pei773 - I. M. Pei
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Iconic Chinese-American architect best known for his glass pyramid designed as an updated entrance to the Louvre. His other notable buildings include
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Walker Percy774 - Walker Percy
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Signed book: The Thanatos Syndrome. Limited first edition. Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1987. Leatherbound hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5, 372 pages. Signed
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Pablo Picasso775 - Pablo Picasso
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Two Czech postage stamps affixed to an off-white 3.75 x 2.5 card, signed at the bottom in blue ballpoint, “Picasso.” In fine condition. Accompanied by
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James R. Randall776 - James R. Randall
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Writer (1839–1908) best remembered as the lyricist of the song, ‘Maryland, My Maryland.’ Scarce AQS on an off-white 7 x 8.75 lightly-lined sheet, sign
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Pulitzer Prize Authors777 - Pulitzer Prize Authors
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Approximately 69 items consisting of letters, souvenir typescripts, photos, FDCs, and signatures, each signed by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Sign
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Robert Rauschenberg778 - Robert Rauschenberg
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Color postcard of Rauschenberg’s 1963 work entitled ‘Estate,’ 4.5 x 6, signed at the bottom in blue felt tip, “Rauschenberg.” In fine condition, with
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Ilya Repin779 - Ilya Repin
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Russian painter (1844–1930) of the Peredvizhniki artistic school, known for his realistic, psychologically intense works. Rare ALS in Russian, one pag
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James Whitcomb Riley780 - James Whitcomb Riley
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AQS on an off-white 5 x 3.25 card. Riley writes, in full: “The simple soul–reposing, glad belief in everything.” Signed at the conclusion, “James Whit
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Robert Ripley781 - Robert Ripley
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Original vintage signed ink and watercolor sketch for a newspaper of a cat sneezing on an off-white 3.25 x 3.5 card, with Ripley writing “When a cat s
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Robert Ripley782 - Robert Ripley
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Two items: one TLS signed “Ripley,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Believe It or Not! letterhead, September 8, 1943. In part: “Here are a couple Believe It or No
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Larry Rivers783 - Larry Rivers
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Two postcards: a color 4 x 6 postcard of ‘The Greatest Homosexual,’ and a 6 x 4.25 of ‘Study for the painting of George Washington Crossing the Delawa
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Edward Arlington Robinson784 - Edward Arlington Robinson
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American poet (1869–1935) who won three Pulitzer Prizes. ALS signed “E. A. Robinson,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, March 27, 1929. Letter to T. H. Cummings. I
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Georges Rochegrosse785 - Georges Rochegrosse
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French historical and decorative painter (1859–1938). ALS in French, signed “G. Rochegrosse,” one page both sides, 5.75 x 6, no date. Untranslated let
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Norman Rockwell786 - Norman Rockwell
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Thank-you card with a printed sentiment, 4.25 x 3.25, signed at the bottom in black ink, “Thank you, Norman Rockwell.” Adhesive remnants and slight su
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Norman Rockwell787 - Norman Rockwell
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TLS, one page, 5.75 x 7.75, personal letterhead, May 1, 1976. Brief letter to an admirer. In full: “Yes, I always did want to paint. If you are intere
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Norman Rockwell788 - Norman Rockwell
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Signed book: Norman Rockwell: Illustrator. First edition. NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket, 9 x 12, 208 pages.
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Norman Rockwell789 - Norman Rockwell
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FDC with a cachet honoring Tom Sawyer, signed at the top in black felt tip, “Sincerely, Norman Rockwell.” In fine condition.
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Auguste Rodin790 - Auguste Rodin
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Seminal and highly lauded French sculptor (1840–1917) whose works, including the iconic ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Thinker,’ earned him a place among the mos
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger791 - J. D. Salinger
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Two items: Typed letter, signed in type “J,” one page, 8.25 x 11, not dated, but postmarked November 18, 1952. Salinger writes to his fiancee Mary Bay
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Carl Sandburg792 - Carl Sandburg
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Signed book: Good Morning, America. First edition, limited issue, numbered 793/811. NY: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Hardcover, 6 x 8.5, 251 pages. Signed on t
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Margaret E. Sangster793 - Margaret E. Sangster
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American poet, author and editor (1838–1912). AQS, one page on an off-white 7.5 x 5 sheet. Sangster pens five lines from her poem ‘Immortal,’ in full:
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George Bernard Shaw794 - George Bernard Shaw
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TLS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” one page, 9 x 7, personal letterhead, May 3, 1911. Letter to William Poel. In part: “As you already have twelve speakers
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George Segal795 - George Segal
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Three postcards of Segal’s impressive works, all approximately 4 x 5.75, including two color, each signed on the front in black ballpoint, with Segal
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John Singer Sargent796 - John Singer Sargent
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Distinguished American-born artist (1856–1925) who spent most of his career as an expatriate in Europe. While he painted a variety of subjects in vari
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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George Bernard Shaw797 - George Bernard Shaw
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ALS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” one page, 7 x 4.5, personal letterhead, January 9, 1917. Letter to Curtis Freshel. In part: “As a boy I used to say that
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Samuel Francis Smith798 - Samuel Francis Smith
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Boston-born Baptist minister and academic (1808–1895) best known as the lyricist of ‘America’ (‘My Country, ’Tis of Thee’), written while he was a stu
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Raphael Soyer799 - Raphael Soyer
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Two color postcards of Soyer’s works entitled ‘The Brown Sweater,’ and ‘Farewell to Lincoln Square,’ both approximately 4 x 6, each signed in the lowe
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Klaus Staeck800 - Klaus Staeck
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Three postcards of Staeck’s interesting works, two 5.75 x 4 and one 4 x 5.75, each signed and dated on the front in black or red ballpoint. In fine co
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John Steinbeck801 - John Steinbeck
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TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11, personal letterhead, April 21, 1958. Letter to Marguerite Tuttle. In full “We called your sister on returning on friday
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Henry David Thoreau802 - Henry David Thoreau
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ALS signed “D. H. Thoreau,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.5, Cambridge, June 22, 1837. Letter to John. In full: “I can write you nothing definite with
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 25,000.00
 
 
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Harriet Beecher Stowe803 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Original 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet photo by Hastings of Boston, signed in the bottom border in black ink. In fine condition, with some slight spotting to ima
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Bram Stoker and Henry Irving804 - Bram Stoker and Henry Irving
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Stoker was an Irish author (1847–1912) best known for his horror classic Dracula. Irving (1838–1905) was a prominent British stage actor who was the
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Lowell Thomas805 - Lowell Thomas
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Vintage matte-finish 11 x 14 Hal Phyfe studio portrait with a 7.5 x 9.5 image area, signed and inscribed below the image in fountain pen, “To my old P
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Leo Tolstoy806 - Leo Tolstoy
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Crisp ink signature on an off-white 5.25 x 4.5 lightly-lined folded sheet. An intersecting vertical and horizontal crease towards the left edge, some
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Paul Valery807 - Paul Valery
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French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871-1945). Vintage 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo, signed vertically in fountain pen. In very good condition, with
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec808 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Important French painter and printmaker (1864–1901) whose lively, colorful portrayals of the people and places of fin-de-siècle Paris take a pl...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Victor Vasarely810 - Victor Vasarely
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Two color postcards of Vasarely’s mesmerizing works, both 4 x 5.75, each signed in the lower border in blue or black ballpoint. In overall fine condit
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Kurt Vonnegut811 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Glossy 8 x 9.75 close-up photo of Vonnegut with a cigarette in hand, signed in blue felt tip. In fine condition, with scattered surface spotting.
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Andy Warhol812 - Andy Warhol
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Color postcard of a semi-abstract portrait of Warhol, 4 x 6, signed in the lower border in thick black felt tip, “Andy.” In fine condition, with sligh
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Andy Warhol813 - Andy Warhol
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Signed book: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). First edition, later printing. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardc...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Weegee814 - Weegee
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Colorful photographer and photojournalist (1899–1968), born Arthur Fellig, whose sensationalistic images of murder, mayhem, and other dramatic events
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Eudora Welty815 - Eudora Welty
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Signed book: The Shoe Bird. Later printing. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 88 pages. Sig
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Tom Wesselmann817 - Tom Wesselmann
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Vibrant color postcard of Wesselmann’s work entitled ‘Great American Nude 76,’ signed in the border in black ballpoint. In fine condition, with a coup
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Thornton Wilder818 - Thornton Wilder
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ALS signed “Thornton W,” one page, 6 x 7, personal letterhead, December 30, 1927. Letter to the “General.” In part: “I’m having dinner with Gene Tunne
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Herman Wouk819 - Herman Wouk
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Wouk with a pipe in his hand, signed in blue ballpoint. In fine condition, with a few light surface impressions and binder ding
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Thomas Wolfe820 - Thomas Wolfe
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Signed book: Look Homeward Angel. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.75, 626 pages. Signed a...
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Frank Lloyd Wright821 - Frank Lloyd Wright
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TLS signed “F. Ll. Wright,” one page, 10.75 x 8.5, Taliesin letterhead, April 26, 1946. Letter to Richard B. Gump in San Francisco. In full: “I like y
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