RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

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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’s nearly four decades of business continue to grow, achieving 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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Alice B. Toklas561 - Alice B. Toklas
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ALS signed “Alice,” one page, 5.5 x 9, January 8, 1961. Letter to Saul Mauraher. In part: “Christmas night was taken to a big dinner—nine o’clock inst
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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John Steinbeck562 - John Steinbeck
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DS, ten onionskin pages, 8.5 x 11, June 11, 1963. Agreement between Steinbeck and David Merrick granting rights to turn his Viva Zapata screenplay int
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Bram Stoker563 - Bram Stoker
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Incredibly scarce first edition, second issue of Dracula, Westminster, England: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.7
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Estimate : 7,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Henry Fox Talbot564 - Henry Fox Talbot
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British inventor and photography pioneer (1800–1877) who introduced the calotype process in 1841; he was also active in politics, serving as a member
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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J. R. R. Tolkien565 - J. R. R. Tolkien
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British author and scholar (1892–1973) whose Lord of the Rings trilogy became one of the towering classics of fantasy literature and inspired a series
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec566 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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ALS in French, signed “H. T. Lautrec,” one page, 4.5 x 7, Bordeaux, no date, but July 1900. Lautrec writes to the famous actor and director Andr...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec567 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Fanciful ALS in pencil in French, signed “T-Lautrec,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, no date [but June 1895]. Letter to an unidentifie
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Hendrik Willem van Loon568 - Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Historian and journalist (1882–1944) best known for his 1921 book The Story of Mankind. Collection of nine letters (8 ALSs, and one 1 TLS) from van Lo
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Andy Warhol569 - Andy Warhol
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Signed book: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. First edition, later printing. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Edith Wharton570 - Edith Wharton
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Distinguished American author (1862–1937) best known for her novels exploring the manners and morals of upper-class American society. Her most endurin
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Walt Whitman571 - Walt Whitman
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Scarce vintage 4 x 5.5 photo of Whitman resting his head in his hand, affixed to its original 6 x 8.5 mount, signed on the mount in black ink, “Walt W
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Thomas Wolfe572 - Thomas Wolfe
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Bank check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Wolfe, payable to Rogers Peet for $22.54, May 14, 1938. Wolfe’s notation at bottom reads, “Payment i
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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William Wordsworth573 - William Wordsworth
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English poet and author (1770–1850) of ‘Lyrical Ballads,’ a collection inspired by the beauty of the English Lake District. Bold AQS on an off-white 5
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Frank Lloyd Wright574 - Frank Lloyd Wright
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Highly influential American architect (1867–1959) whose mastery of space, form, and human-centered design revolutionized the field of architecture and
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Frank Lloyd Wright575 - Frank Lloyd Wright
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Incredibly rare set of five original pencil and colored pencil developmental architectural drawings of Wright’s Fallingwater masterpiece, on large oni
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Estimate : 40,000.00 - 50,000.00
 
 
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Frank Lloyd Wright576 - Frank Lloyd Wright
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TLS, three pages, 8 x 10, on Wright’s red-block paper, June 3, 1941. Letter to Lewis Mumford. In full: “When, because of a difference of feeling and j
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ansel Adams577 - Ansel Adams
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Picturesque 15.5 x 12 calendar photo titled “Yosemite Fall and Apple Blossoms, Yosemite Valley, c. 1936,” signed in the lower border in black felt tip
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Charles Addams578 - Charles Addams
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Original signed and inscribed ink sketch of Pugsley Addams on an off-white 5 x 3 card, signed and inscribed, “For Bernie Hogya from Chas Addams, aged
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Authors579 - Authors
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Collection of eight souvenir typescripts, all one page, seven 8.5 x 11 and one 6.75 x 8.5, each signed at the conclusion in ink or felt tip by the aut
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Dan Brown580 - Dan Brown
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Signed book: The Da Vinci Code. First edition, first printing. NY: Doubleday. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 454 pages. Signed on the title p
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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