RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

ALS signed “L. M. Alcott,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 5.5, January 23 [1870s]. Letter to Mr. Joule. In full: “I return the copy of Mr.

Influential French poet and playwright (1880–1918) credited with coining the word ‘surrealism,’ writing some of the earliest works to be described as

TLS signed “Papa, Edgar Rice Burroughs,” one page both sides, 8 x 10.5, USS Cahaba letterhead, May 27, 1945. Letter to his daughter Joan, from “somewh

Four evocative untranslated LSs in Italian addressed to Greek patriot Giorgio Vitali, three signed “Noel Byron, Pair d'Angleterre” and one initi...

ALS signed “S. L. Clemens,” one page, 3.5 x 5.75, August 11, 1905. Letter to a lady. In full: “I am quite sure, Miss Brooke, that if I had seen that p

ANS signed “Mark,” one page, 4.5 x 3.5, no date. Short note to Poultney Bigelow reads, in full: “Please tell me what London station & RR? Best t...

Desirable hand-addressed and signed mailing envelope panel, 3.75 x 2.5, addressed by Dickens to “Messrs: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand,” and crisply si

ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, Tavistock House, January 6, 1854. Brief letter to Sir James Emerson Tennent. In full: “You may rely on me most implicitly.” I

Elaborate ink signature, “Saturday, Twenty Second August, 1862, Faithfully, Charles Dickens,” on an off-white 4.25 x 7 sheet of his Gad’s Hill Place p

Bank check, 7.25 x 3, filled out and signed by Dickens, payable to Mess’rs: Skinner and Co. for £52.7.0, February 4, 1864. In fine condition, w...