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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Ralph Ellison783 - Ralph Ellison
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American novelist, literary critic, scholar, and writer (1914–1994) best known for his novel Invisible Man. Souvenir typescript, one page, 7.25 x 10.5
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James T. Farrell784 - James T. Farrell
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ALS, three pages, lightly-lined, 8 x 10.5, October 23, 1960. Letter to a friend in Farrell’s difficult to decipher hand. In part: “Is there a Universi
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John Fowles785 - John Fowles
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Signed book: Islands. First edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8 x 9.25, 108 pages. Signed in black ink on the title pa
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Erle Stanley Gardner786 - Erle Stanley Gardner
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Lawyer-turned-writer (1889–1970) best known as the creator of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason. Vintage matte-finish 4 x 5 photo of Gardner hold
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Charles Dana Gibson787 - Charles Dana Gibson
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Three ALSs, all signed “C. D. Gibson,” two one-page and one two-page, to two different gentlemen. One reads, in part: “The illustrators are have
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Allen Ginsberg788 - Allen Ginsberg
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Signed book: White Shroud. First edition. NY: Harper and Row, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 89 pages. Signed on the title page in blac
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Zane Grey789 - Zane Grey
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Bank check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Grey, payable to Havemann Hardware for $47.75, September 1, 1931. In fine condition, with expected c
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Zane Grey790 - Zane Grey
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ALS, in pencil, signed “Dad,” one page, 8.25 x 10.75, Hotel Mersey letterhead, June 17. Letter to his son about travel arrangements. In part: “Send yo
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David Guterson791 - David Guterson
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Signed book: Snow Falling on Cedars. First edition. NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 345 pages. Signed o
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Alex Haley792 - Alex Haley
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, from his classic novel Roots, beginning: “In the memory of Chicken George, nothing had ever generated such ex
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Al Hirschfeld793 - 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.” In fine
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr794 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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Albumen 3.5 x 4.75 portrait of Holmes affixed to a 4.5 x 7 mount, signed in the lower border in black ink, “Oliver Wendell Holmes. Logic is logic. Tha
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Henry James795 - Henry James
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Third-person ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, July 9. Letter declining an invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury. In part: “Mr. Henry James regrets extr
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Ernst Junger796 - Ernst Junger
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German writer (1895–1998) known for his book Storm of Steel. ANS in German, one page, 5.75 x 4, August 2, 1972. Brief untranslated note to a friend in
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Stephen King797 - Stephen King
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Signed book: The Shining. First edition. NY: Doubleday, 1977. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.5, 447 pages. Signed on the half-title page, “Best wishes, Stephen K
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Rudyard Kipling798 - Rudyard Kipling
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Ink signature, “Rudyard Kipling,” on an off-white 4 x 1.5 slip. In fine condition, with a light horizontal crease through portion of signature and a t
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Louis L’Amour799 - Louis L’Amour
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Souvenir typescript, one page 8.5 x 11. The opening of Chapter One of Sackett’s Land beginning: “It was my devil’s own temper that brought me to grief
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Edward Lear and John Everett Millais800 - Edward Lear and John Everett Millais
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Lear (1812–1888) was an English artist and author; and Millais (1829–1896) was an English painter and illustrator. Ink signatures, “Yours sincerely, E
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Roy Lichtenstein802 - Roy Lichtenstein
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Color postcard of Lichtenstein’s 1965 work entitled ‘M-Maybe,’ 4 x 5.75, signed in the lower border in black felt tip. Matted and framed to an overall
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Roy Lichtenstein803 - Roy Lichtenstein
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Color MoMA greeting card of Lichtenstein’s 1965 work ‘Sweet Dreams, Baby!,’ 5 x 7, signed in the lower border in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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