RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document and Autograph Auction

Signed book: The Illustrated Man. First edition. NY: Doubleday and Company, 1951. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 251 pages. Signed on the title

Bold ink signature, “Robert Browning, Venice, Dec. 9, ’88,” on an off-white 3 x 1.5 card. In fine condition.

ALS signed “Wm. C. Bryant,” one page, 4.5 x 7, June 2, 1852. Letter to John M. Lenox. In full: “I am sorry not to be able to send you the autograph of

ALS signed “W. C. Bryant & Co.,” two pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, The Evening Post letterhead, August 27, 1874. Letter t...

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Welcome House letterhead, March 11, 1955. Letter searching for potential adoptive parents of two boys. In part: “Jimmy and Pa

Personal check, 8.5 x 3, filled out and signed by Burroughs, “E. R. Burroughs,” payable to Irvin King for $50.00, February 14, 1939. In very good cond

Novelist (1844–1925) who served in the Confederate Army. He wrote of violence and death, of racial intermarriage, and of contradictions and complexiti

Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, from In Cold Blood, Chapter One, The Last to See Them Alive. In part, “The village of Holcomb stands on the h

Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, an excerpt from the beginning of The Andromeda Strain. In part: “A man with binoculars. That is how it all be

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish writer and dramatist (1878–1957) notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published un