RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

Important French novelist and playwright (1799–1850) best known for his complex ‘cycle’ La Comédie humaine. ALS in French, signed “H. Balzac,” ...

ALS, one page, 5.5 x 8.5, The Roosevelt Hospital letterhead, no date but circa 1914. Letter to a friend. In part: “What a nice girl you were to send m

Russian writer (1870–1953) best known for his poems and stories, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. Rare ALS in French, signed “Ivan Bouni

Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist (1863–1938) who distinguished himself as a heroic aviator in WWI. ALS in Italian, three pages on two adjoining s

First National Bank of Hartford check, 8.25 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Clemens, “Saml. L. Clemens,” payable to his coachman and faithful servant

Choice ink signature and inscription, “To my friend Pond, Mark Twain, York Harbor, June 29, ’2,” tipped into James Pond’s copy of The American Claiman

British author (1785–1859) best remembered for his now-classic memoir of his experiments with drugs, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. ALS, four

Boldly penned ALS signed “R. W. Emerson,” one page, 5 x 8, November 13, 1856. Letter to James Freeman Clarke, American Unitarian clergyman and the aut

Signed book: The Princess Bride. First edition, first printing. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanvich, Inc., 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 308

Rare ALS in German, signed “J. W. v. Goethe,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 9 x 10.25, November 26, 1827. Lengthy letter to writer, translator,