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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Chuck Palahniuk582 - Chuck Palahniuk
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Signed book: Fight Club. First edition, first printing. NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 208 pages. Signed on
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Sir Walter Scott583 - Sir Walter Scott
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Bank check, 8 x 3, filled out and signed by Scott, payable to the bearer for £30, October 3, 1825. Attractively double-cloth-matted and framed ...
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Samuel Francis Smith584 - 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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Alfred Lord Tennyson585 - Alfred Lord Tennyson
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ALS signed “A. Tennyson,” one page both sides, 4.25 x 6.5, January 23, 1866. Letter to a gentleman. In full: “I regret to say that the duplicate of th
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Tennessee Williams586 - Tennessee Williams
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Personal check, 8.5 x 3.5, filled out in type and signed by Williams, payable to The Studio Duplicating Service, Inc. for $83.92, September 14, 1978.
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Hector Berlioz590 - Hector Berlioz
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Influential French composer (1803–1869) of such repertory staples as the programmatic ‘Symphonie fantastique’ and the opera ‘Les Troyens.’ ALS in Fren
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Johannes Brahms591 - Johannes Brahms
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Famed German composer (1833–1897) whose works in the classical spirit, written in the midst of the Romantic era, take a place among the most enduring
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Maria Callas592 - Maria Callas
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Untranslated ALS in Italian, signed “Maria Meneghini Callas,” one page, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, May 24, 1958. In fine condition.
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Enrico Caruso593 - Enrico Caruso
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Columbia Bank check, 5.5 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Caruso, payable to Columbia Bank for $2,685.45, January 19, 1916. A central
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Pablo Casals594 - Pablo Casals
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AMQS on an off-white 10 x 7.75 cardstock sheet, signed in fountain pen, “Pablo Casals, 1940.” Casals pens two bars of music. An unsigned postcard port
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