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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Guy de Maupassant731 - Guy de Maupassant
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French naturalist writer (1850–1893), considered the greatest French author of short stories. ALS, one page, 4 x 6, personal initialed Yacht Bel-Ami l
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Henry Miller732 - Henry Miller
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Original painting by Miller, watercolor on paper, 10.5 x 11.5, featuring vaguely female-looking serpentine figures surrounding a square of abstract fi
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell733 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh (Mrs. John R. Marsh),” one page, 7 x 10.75, personal letterhead, August 8, 1939. Letter to Mrs. Whitfield. In part
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Sean O’Casey734 - Sean O’Casey
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Irish playwright (1880-1964) best known for such working-class dramas as The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock. ALS, one page, 5.5 x 7, Th
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Flannery O’Connor735 - Flannery O’Connor
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Georgia-born American writer (1925–1964), best known for her quintessentially ‘Southern Gothic’ stories and novels, who died of lupus at the age of 39
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Ayn Rand736 - Ayn Rand
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Signed book: The Fountainhead. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.25, 727 pages.
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger737 - J. D. Salinger
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Endorsed check, 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed in another hand, payable to Salinger for $341.95, November 4, 1974. Endorsed on the reverse in black i
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre738 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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TLS in French, signed “J. Sartre,” five pages on three gridded sheets, 8 x 10.5, April 21, [1940]. Fine letter to the French actress Wanda Kosakiewicz
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Dr. Seuss739 - Dr. Seuss
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Signed book: Green Eggs and Ham. Later printing. NY: Beginner Books, 1960. Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5, 62 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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George Bernard Shaw740 - George Bernard Shaw
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ALS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” on a 5.25 x 3.25 picture postcard, postmarked April 27, 1916. Shaw writes from the Gloucester Hotel, Weymouth, to Miss B
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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