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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Leopold Sacher-Masoch508 - Leopold Sacher-Masoch
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Austrian writer and journalist (1836–1895) from whose name the word masochism is derived. ALS in German, signed “Leopold Ritter von Sacher Masoch,” on
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery509 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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French poet and writer (1900–1944) and pioneering aviator known for the classic book The Little Prince. While flying for the Free French Air Force in
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Arthur Schnitzler510 - Arthur Schnitzler
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Austrian writer (1862–1931) best known for his sexually charged plays and stories. His 1926 novella Traumnovelle served as the basis for Eyes Wide Shu
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Dr. Seuss511 - Dr. Seuss
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Signed book: Horton Hatches the Egg. NY: Random House, 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 x 10.5. Signed and inscribed on a first free end page in
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre512 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Highly influential French writer and philosopher (1905–1980), most closely associated with existentialism, who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature i
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William Shakespeare513 - William Shakespeare
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Extraordinary wooden fragment from William Shakespeare’s bedstead, measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x .5, affixed to a slightly larger card to which bears a manu
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Shel Silverstein514 - Shel Silverstein
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Handwritten working manuscript signed twice by Silverstein, one page both sides 8.5 x 11, on a TLS sent to him by Harper & Row, dated March 27, ...
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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George Bernard Shaw515 - George Bernard Shaw
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ANS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” at the conclusion of a letter sent to him, one page, 8.5 x 11, The Emerson Quarterly letterhead, February 15, 1929. Shaw
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Samuel Francis Smith516 - 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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Rabindranath Tagore517 - Rabindranath Tagore
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Bengali poet, playwright, philosopher, and author (1861–1941) who became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913. Bold founta
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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