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 continues to achieve 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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Maxim Gorky680 - Maxim Gorky
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Important Russian/Soviet writer and activist (1868–1936) who emerged as a key founder of the Socialist realism literary method. Exceptional matte-fini
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway681 - Ernest Hemingway
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Colorful 6.5 x 3 ticket for a bullfight at the Plaza Toros de Malaga, August 7, 1959, from the personal property of Roberto Herrera Sotolongo, persona
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway682 - Ernest Hemingway
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Bank check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Hemingway, “Ernest M. Hemingway,” payable to Portador (bearer) for 120.00 pesos, July 28, 1947. Rever
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Victor Hugo683 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, one page, 5 x 7.75, January 2, 1849. Untranslated letter sending thanks to Mr. Achaintre of Louviers, likely the printer Albert Achaint
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Max Jacob684 - Max Jacob
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Important French poet, painter, writer, and critic (1876–1944) who converted from Judaism to Catholicism at age 39. Handwritten manuscript in French b
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Ken Kesey686 - Ken Kesey
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Signed book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. First British edition. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 311 pa...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Rudyard Kipling687 - Rudyard Kipling
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Uncommon 3.5 x 5.25 postcard photo of Kipling in a head-and-shoulders pose taken by Henri Manuel, signed in the lower border in black ink. A few light
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Guy de Maupassant688 - Guy de Maupassant
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Boldly penned ANS in French, signed “Maupassant,” one page, 4.5 x 7, no date. A brief confirmation of a meeting. In part (translated): “It is understo
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Henry Miller689 - Henry Miller
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Unusual collection of eight items: three 5.5 x 8.5 cardstock photos and one postcard photo showing Miller in an adorable costume at the age of three-a
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Margaret Mitchell690 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 5, postmarked December 13, 1943. Letter to Mrs. T. J. Busey of Fayettevil
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Robert Musil691 - Robert Musil
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Renowned Austrian writer (1880–1942) whose unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities is regarded as one of the most important modernist novels. Rare
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Vladimir Nabokov692 - Vladimir Nabokov
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Very rare DS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, August 4, 1969. Document extending a deadline for an option agreement between Nabakov and McGraw Hill International
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Eugene O’Neill693 - Eugene O’Neill
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ALS signed “Gene O’Neill,” one page, 6.25 x 9.5, Provincetown, Massachusetts, no date. Letter to actress Jeanie Begg. In full: “Thank you very much fo
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Marcel Proust694 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the sixteen-volume Remembrance of Things Past, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world literature. A
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Romain Rolland695 - Romain Rolland
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French writer (1866–1944) who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature. ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 8.5, July 15, 1937. Rol
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery696 - 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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George Sand697 - George Sand
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Eminent French author (1804–1876), born Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known by the masculine pen name she adopted early in her career. An early
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Estimate : 4,500.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre698 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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ALS in French, signed “J. P. Sartre,” one page, 4.5 x 5.5, no date, but postmarked Paris, March 7, 1944. Letter to Madame Lucie Ville in Paris on beha
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Friedrich Schiller699 - Friedrich Schiller
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German poet, philosopher, and playwright (1759–1805) who had a productive relationship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Exceedingly rare ALS in German
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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Friedrich von Schlegel700 - Friedrich von Schlegel
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German poet, critic, philologist, and scholar (1772–1829). ALS in German, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 7.75, December 4, [1820]. Letter
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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