RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities

TLS signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison letterhead, February 19, 1924. Letter to Charles A. Janke at the Bell

Significant handwritten notes in pencil, unsigned, one page, 4.75 x 8, no date. Carter writes the measurements of the four shrines of the tomb of Tuta

ALS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8 x 10.75, August 18, 1933. Letter to Belgian artist Marie Destree-Danse regarding expert violinmaker J

Signed book: The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution. First edition, first printing. London: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1973. Hardcover wi

ALS signed “Jonath. Swift,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 9, March 22, 1734. Letter of recommendation for his friend Thomas Sheridan, to the Duke of Dor

Rare handwritten manuscript from a draft of An American Dictionary of the English Language, unsigned, one page both sides, 8 x 10, no date but circa 1

Rare, boldly penned ALS signed “Edgar A. Poe,” one page, 7.25 x 9.75, September 21, 1843. Poe writes from Philadelphia to Elwood Evans, in full: “I ha

ALS signed “Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain,” one page, 4.5 x 6.75, February 14 [1871]. Letter to an unidentified gentleman, in full: “I am only too pro

Definitive autographed first edition of Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855…1888, limited to 600 copies printed for the author’s use, p...

ALS in French, signed “Renoir,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, no date but circa October 1890. Letter written from his new workshop.

Fascinating archive of correspondence between Jack London and his friend Spiro Orfans chronicling a complicated relationship over the course of six ye

Rare matte-finish 6 x 8 Walter Benington photo boldly signed and inscribed on the 8.5 x 11.5 mount in black fountain pen, “With all thanks for kindnes

Excessively rare matte-finish 1.5 x 2.25 photo of Woolf affixed to the original 5.75 x 3.75 British passport page, signed below in fountain pen. The p

AMS in French, signed “J. Ensor,” one page both sides, 8 x 11, no date. Handwritten essay by Ensor with excellent artistic content, entitled “La gravu

Superb pair of items, including the contract for and first edition of Arthur Miller’s debut book, Situation Normal. First is a DS signed “Arthur Mille

TLS, two pages, 5.5 x 8.5, March 10, 1980. Letter to paramour Janet Eagleson, a sometime houseguest at his reclusive New Hampshire home, reads, in par

ALS, one page both sides, 5.25 x 6.75, July 28, 1955. Letter written shortly before the printing of The Return of the King, referencing his best-selli

Signed book: Gravity’s Rainbow. First edition, first printing. NY: Viking, 1973. Hardcover with original, first issue dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 760 pages

Autograph letter, dictated by Earp and written by his wife Josie, three pages on two sheets, 8 x 10, no date but postmarked April 18, 1927. Letter to

American woman (1860–1927) who was tried and acquitted in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. The saga ult