RR Auction: Rare Manuscripts, Documents and Autographs

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Headquartered in Amherst, NH, RR Auction is globally recognized as the trusted source for authentic autographed memorabilia and rare signed documents. Since its inception in 1976, the firm has published over 360 consecutive monthly autograph catalogs, which are distributed internationally. The firm recently auctioned the autographed photo of Albert Einstein with his tongue wagging for a record $74,340 and the check astronaut Neil Armstrong signed the day he left for the moon for $27,350.
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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Hugh Hefner519 - Hugh Hefner
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Signed book: The Playboy Book: Forty Years. First edition, first printing. Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1994. Hardcover with dustjacket, 9.5
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Paul Heyse520 - Paul Heyse
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German writer and translator (1830–1914) who wrote novels, poetry, and short stories and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910. ALS in Ge
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Al Hirschfeld521 - Al Hirschfeld
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Printed Hirschfeld image of Elvis on an 8 x 10 card bearing an Elvis postage stamp and first-day cancellation, signed in pencil “Hirschfeld.” In fine
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Julia Ward Howe522 - Julia Ward Howe
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Two items: ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, June 13, 1872. Letter to Miss Mary Carpenter. In full: “I can only send you the written
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Julia Ward Howe523 - Julia Ward Howe
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AQS on an off-white 5.25 x 2.5 sheet. Ward pens the opening line from ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic.’ In full: “’Mine eyes have seen the glory of t
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Elbert Hubbard524 - Elbert Hubbard
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American writer, printer, and philosopher (1856–1915), closely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, who perished in the Lusitania disaster. T
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Victor Hugo525 - Victor Hugo
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Important French writer, artist, and statesman (1802–1885) best known for such canonical novels as Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (aka ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Victor Hugo526 - Victor Hugo
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Important French writer, artist, and statesman (1802–1885) best known for such canonical novels as Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (aka ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Washington Irving528 - Washington Irving
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ALS, one page, 7.25 x 9.75, January 15, 1850. Letter to J. Treadwell Esquire. In part: “The presence of various circumstances have prevented an earlie
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Augustus John529 - Augustus John
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British painter and etcher, known especially for his symbolic landscapes. Original unsigned pencil and charcoal sketch of the upper torso and head of
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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Stephen King530 - Stephen King
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Signed book: The Best American Short Stories. First edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25, 428 pages. Signed on the t
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Stephen King531 - Stephen King
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of King covered in felines, signed and inscribed in black felt tip “For Bill Beal—All best, Stephen King.” In very fine condition.
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Stephen King532 - Stephen King
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TLS, on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard, November 19, 1981. Letter to an admirer. In part: “Sorry to be so long in responding, but I’ve been working on a movie I
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Dong Kingman533 - Dong Kingman
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Chinese-American artist and one of America's leading watercolor masters (1911–2000). Color 14 x 21 print for a 1978 exhibit in Seattle, signed i...
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Peter Kyne534 - Peter Kyne
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Novelist (1880–1957) in which many of his works were adapted into screenplays starting in the silent era. TLS signed “Peter,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, M
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D. H. Lawrence535 - D. H. Lawrence
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Signed book: Rawdon’s Roof. Limited edition of 500 copies (This being No. 11). London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1928. Hardcover, 6 x 8.25, 32 pages.
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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D. H. Lawrence536 - D. H. Lawrence
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Signed book: Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Limited edition of 1000 copies (this being no. 466). Florence: Privately published, 1928. Handsomely rebound lea
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Harper Lee537 - Harper Lee
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Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. First edition (stated explicitly on the copyright page). Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Hardcover wi
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Fernand Leger538 - Fernand Leger
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French artist (1881–1955) best known for his brightly colored, cubist- and machine-age–influenced abstractions. La Forme humaine dans l'espace c...
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David Levine539 - David Levine
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Artist and illustrator (1926–2009) best known for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Original signed and inscribed ink sketch of a caric
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C. S. Lewis540 - C. S. Lewis
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Influential Irish author and scholar (1898–1963), a former atheist who became an eloquent convert to Christianity, best known for his works on Christi
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Jack London541 - Jack London
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Bank check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by London, payable to Imperial Cash Store for $12.40, stamp-dated January 8, 1910. A central vertical f
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow542 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, June 11, 1872. Letter to Mr. Montgomery declining an invitation. In pa
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Curzio Malaparte543 - Curzio Malaparte
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Italian writer, born Kurt Erich Suckert, (1898–1957) whose surname, means ‘evil/wrong side’ and is a play on Napoleon's family name ‘Bonaparte’ ...
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti544 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Italian poet and editor (1876–1944) who was one of the seminal figures of the futurist movement. Uncommon ALS in French, signed “F. T. Marinetti,” one
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W. Somerset Maugham545 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Two signed hardcover books, both trade editions: The Razor’s Edge, signed and inscribed on the first free end page, “For Egon & Rita Merdinger, ...
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Peter Max546 - Peter Max
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Unique color 15.5 x 22.5 promotional print for Max’s ‘Drawings’ exhibition at the Jack Gallery in NYC, with thick, colorful strokes of paint applied b
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Peter Max547 - Peter Max
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Color 21 x 25 Max-designed poster for the 1991 Mill Valley Film Festival, signed at the top in black felt tip. In fine condition, with a few light din
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Henry Miller548 - Henry Miller
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ALS signed “Henry” on a 5.5 x 3.25 postal card, January 3, 1949. Letter to a friend. In full, “Do you still have this book - ‘The Dragon of Revelation
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Margaret Mitchell549 - Margaret Mitchell
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American author (1900–1949) whose single novel, Gone With the Wind, became one of the best-sellers of all time and spawned one of the most fabled movi
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Claude Monet550 - Claude Monet
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Highly influential French painter (1840–1926) who was among the leading figures of the impressionist movement, which took its name from the title of o
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Henry Moore551 - Henry Moore
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Intriguing 4 x 6 book photo of one of Moore’s abstract sculptures, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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LeRoy Neiman552 - LeRoy Neiman
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Color 11 x 8.5 print of a hound dog, signed in the lower border in black felt tip, “LeRoy Neiman ‘88.” In fine condition, with scattered light creases
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LeRoy Neiman553 - LeRoy Neiman
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Two items: color 7.5 x 5.25 postcard image of Neiman’s ‘High Seas Sailing,’ signed in red felt tip; and a felt tip signature on an off-white 5 x 3 car
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Maxfield Parrish554 - Maxfield Parrish
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American artist (1870–1966) best known for his luminous, often fantastic landscapes and romantic illustrations of nudes. ALS, one page, 5.5 x 4.5, Apr
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Norman Vincent Peale555 - Norman Vincent Peale
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Two items: glossy 6.5 x 8 photo of Peale at a podium, signed and inscribed, “To Ed Clark Ford, with best wishes, Norman Vincent Peale”; and a one-page
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Camille Pissarro556 - Camille Pissarro
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Highly regarded French painter (1830–1903), one of the leading figures of the impressionist movement, best known for his distinctive pointillist style
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Katherine Anne Porter557 - Katherine Anne Porter
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Pulitzer Prize–winning American writer (1890–1980) best known for such enduring stories as ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall’ and the novel Ship of Fo
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Sylvia Plath558 - Sylvia Plath
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Poet, novelist and short story writer (1932–1963), who committed suicide after her separation from her husband and a long bout with depression. Virtua
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Ayn Rand559 - Ayn Rand
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Signed book: The Fountainhead. First edition, second issue (in green cloth; printed two months after the first). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company,
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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James Whitcomb Riley560 - James Whitcomb Riley
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AQS on an off-white 4.5 x 7 album page. Riley pens the third stanza from his poem ‘God Bless Us Everyone.’ In full: “And thus he prayed, ‘God bless us
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James R. Randall561 - James R. Randall
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Writer best remembered as the lyricist of the song, ‘Maryland, My Maryland.’ Scarce AQS on an off-white 7 x 8.75 lightly-lined sheet, signed at the co
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Mario Puzo562 - Mario Puzo
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Signed book: The Last Don. Franklin Library First Edition Society edition. Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1996. Leatherbound hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5
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Norman Rockwell563 - Norman Rockwell
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, March 23, 1960. Rockwell writes to John H. Connell in Henniker, New Hampshire. In full: “Thank you f
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Norman Rockwell564 - Norman Rockwell
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, February 11, 1963. Letter to a woman who asked Rockwell to critique a youngster’s art work. In part:
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Norman Rockwell565 - Norman Rockwell
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Ink signature, “Sincerely, Norman Rockwell,” on a white card. Matted with a color print of one of Rockwell’s works and a small image of Rockwell to an
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Norman Rockwell566 - Norman Rockwell
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Two FDCs, with cachets honoring Benjamin Franklin and City Mail Delivery, each signed in blue ballpoint “Sincerely, Norman Rockwell.” One has a printe
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James Rosenquist567 - James Rosenquist
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Two identical color 4.25 x 6 postcards of Rosenquist’s ‘Marilyn Monroe,’ one signed in blue felt tip, the other signed in blue ballpoint. In fine cond
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J. K. Rowling568 - J. K. Rowling
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Signed book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. First American edition. NY: Arthur A. Levine, 1999. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 435
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Salman Rushdie569 - Salman Rushdie
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Signed book: The Satanic Verses. Later printing. NY: Viking Press, 1989. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.5 x 9.25, 547 pages. Signed on the title page in
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