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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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British Artists614 - British Artists
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Ink signatures of George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton, and John Everett Millais on individual slips of various sizes. In overall fine condition,
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William Cullen Bryant615 - William Cullen Bryant
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ALS signed “Wm. C. Bryant,” one page, 4.75 x 8, June 12, 1873. Brief letter containing an AQS. In full: “I comply with your request by copying these l
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Pearl S. Buck616 - Pearl S. Buck
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Rare handwritten manuscript, signed “P. S. B.,” one page, lightly-lined, 8.5 x 11, circa 1940. Headed at the top by Buck, “British Relations with Chin
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Pearl S. Buck617 - Pearl S. Buck
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TLS, one page, 7 x 10, personal letterhead, November 13, 1952. Short letter to a bookseller. In full: “I should indeed be glad to autograph the copy o
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Edgar Rice Burroughs618 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Ink signature, “Edgar Rice Burroughs, Los Angeles, May 24, 1926,” on an off-white card. Matted with a photo of Burroughs browsing through a copy of on
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James Fenimore Cooper619 - James Fenimore Cooper
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Otsego County Bank check, 6 x 2.25, filled out and signed by Cooper, “J. Fenimore Cooper,” payable to self for $15, September 2, 1848. In fine conditi
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Roald Dahl620 - Roald Dahl
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Gipsy House letterhead, October 10, 1968. Letter to writer and film producer Fred. J. Feldkamp. In part: “I am not particularly
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Salvador Dali621 - Salvador Dali
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Color postcard of Dali’s 1955 work entitled ‘The Sacrament of the Last Supper,’ 5.75 x 4, signed in blue ballpoint. In fine condition.
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L. Sprague de Camp622 - L. Sprague de Camp
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Signed book: Science Fiction Handbook, Revised. First edition. Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 220 pages.
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Ralph Ellison623 - Ralph Ellison
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the conclusion in black felt tip. The beginning of chapter one of Invisible Man, starting with: “It
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James T. Farrell624 - James T. Farrell
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Writer and poet (1904–1979) best known for his Studs Lonigan trilogy. ALS, three pages, lightly-lined, 6 x 9, January 20, 1963. Letter to Marshall Bea
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Edna Ferber625 - Edna Ferber
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TLS, one page, 5.25 x 6.5, Arizona Biltmore letterhead, February 21, 1963. Letter to an admirer. In full: “How good of you to write me as you did, dea
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Robert Frost626 - Robert Frost
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Bold ink signature, “Robert Frost,” on an off-white 2.25 x .75 clipped slip. In fine condition.
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Buckminster Fuller627 - Buckminster Fuller
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Visionary American architect, inventor, writer, and philosopher (1895–1983) perhaps best known for inventing the geodesic dome, one of the signal deve
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Allen Ginsberg628 - Allen Ginsberg
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Two books: Howl and Other Poems. Later printing. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1992. Softcover, 5 x 6.25, 57 pages. Signed on the title page in bl
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Allen Ginsberg629 - Allen Ginsberg
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Signed book: Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties. Later printing. NY: Grove Press, 1977. Softcover, 6 x 9, 313 pages. Signed on the title page, “All
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Allen Ginsberg630 - Allen Ginsberg
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Glossy 5 x 7 photo of Ginsberg with a Leica M6 camera, signed in black felt tip, “Allen Ginsberg, AH.” Encapsulated in a plastic PSA/DNA authenticatio
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Allen Ginsberg631 - Allen Ginsberg
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Signed book: Planet News. First edition. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968. Softcover, 5 x 6.25, 144 pages. Signed on the title page in black ink
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Allen Ginsberg632 - Allen Ginsberg
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ALS signed “Allen,” one page both sides of a self-contained air mail letter, 7.5 x 10.5, November 8, 1983. Letter to his friend and translator Istvan
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Zane Grey633 - Zane Grey
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Twice-signed partly-printed DS, one page, 8.25 x 7.25, April 22, 1934. Pay receipt for $200, recording payment to John Martin, “for salary as caretake
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Zane Grey634 - Zane Grey
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ALS signed “Doc,” one page, 9 x 11, Palace Hotel, Mexico City letterhead, February 10, [1902]. Letter to his wife. In part: “Three railroad companies
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John Grisham635 - John Grisham
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Signed book: The Chamber. First edition, first printing. NY: Doubleday, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 486 pages. Signed on the half-tit
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Keith Haring636 - Keith Haring
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Bright green 5.5 x 5.5 handbill for a June 3, 1988, performance by Bipo at the Tunnel in New York City, with a great Haring image printed on the rever
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Ernest Hemingway: Gregorio Fuentes637 - Ernest Hemingway: Gregorio Fuentes
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Fisherman and the first mate of the Pilar, the boat belonging to the American writer Ernest Hemingway (1897–2002). Fuentes is credited by some as a mo
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr638 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS, one page, 3.5 x 2.5, October 31, 1871. Brief letter complying with an autograph request. In full: “It gives me pleasure to comply with your sligh
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Alex Katz639 - Alex Katz
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Signed book: Alex Katz by Ann Beattie. First edition. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket, 9.25 x 10.25, 91 pages. Signed on the hal
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Stephen King640 - Stephen King
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Ballpoint signature, “Stephen King,” on a light blue 6 x 4 card, dated March 28, 1990. In fine condition.
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Stephen King641 - Stephen King
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Signed book: Pet Sematary. First edition. NY: Doubleday and Company, 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 373 pages. Signed and inscribed on t
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Stephen King642 - Stephen King
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Signed book: The Tommyknockers. First edition, first printing. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 558 pages. Signed
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Stephen King643 - Stephen King
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Signed book: Joyland. First edition, limited issue, numbered 379/724. London: Titan Books, 2013. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 293 pages. S
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Harper Lee644 - Harper Lee
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Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. 35th anniversary edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 323 pages. Boldly sign
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Sinclair Lewis645 - Sinclair Lewis
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Ink signature, “Sinclair Lewis,” on an off-white clipped slip. Matted and framed with a photo of Lewis to an overall size of 8 x 10. In fine condition
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Sol Lewitt646 - Sol Lewitt
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Original signed felt tip sketch of a geometric box on an off-white 5 x 3 card, signed at the bottom, “S. Lewitt.” In fine condition.
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Peter Max647 - Peter Max
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Color 15.75 x 18.5 print entitled ‘Celebrating Life,’ signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “For Pherg, Love, Max 96.” Suede-matted and framed (with
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Peter Max648 - Peter Max
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Visually striking color limited edition 20.5 x 29.5 lithograph entitled ‘Liberty Lady,’ numbered 81/300, nicely signed along the bottom in pencil, “Pe
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Ogden Nash649 - Ogden Nash
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, January 19, 1961. Letter to a gentleman. In part: “My good deeds are few and far between; rarer still ar
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LeRoy Neiman650 - LeRoy Neiman
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 head-and-shoulders photo, signed in black felt tip. In very fine condition.
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LeRoy Neiman651 - LeRoy Neiman
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Color limited edition 15.75 x 16.75 Artist’s Proof lithograph of a bicycle race, signed in the lower border in pencil. Double-matted and framed to an
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Norman Vincent Peale652 - Norman Vincent Peale
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Peale in his office, signed in black felt tip; and two felt tip signatures, “Norman Vincent Peale,” on individual 4 x 1.5 slips
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Norman Vincent Peale653 - Norman Vincent Peale
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Peale in his office, signed in black felt tip; and a cover with a cachet honoring Christmas 1972, signed in blue ballpoint. Sca
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I. M. Pei654 - I. M. Pei
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the famed architect, signed in the lower right in black felt tip. In fine condition, with some irregular adhesion t
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Anne Rice655 - Anne Rice
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Two hardcover books: Interview with the Vampire, signed and inscribed on the half-title page; and Queen of the Damned, signed on the first free end pa
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Robert Ripley656 - Robert Ripley
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Vintage glossy 6 x 8 photo of Ripley looking at a globe, signed and inscribed in black ink, “To—Eric Johnson, with every good wishes, Ripley, ‘Believe
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Norman Rockwell657 - Norman Rockwell
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TLS, one page, 5.75 x 7.75, personal letterhead, October 18, 1971. Letter to a gentleman. In full: “I am kinda embarrassed. If Miss Sessions posed for
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Romain Rolland658 - Romain Rolland
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French writer (1866–1944) who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature. ALS in French, one page, 4.75 x 6.25, March 30. Untranslated letter arranging a
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J. K. Rowling659 - J. K. Rowling
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Signed book: The Casual Vacancy. Later printing. London: Little Brown, 2012. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 503 pages. Signed on the title pa
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Carl Sandburg660 - Carl Sandburg
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Signed book: Smoke and Steel. Later printing. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. Hardcover, 5 x 7.75, 268 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first
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George Bernard Shaw661 - George Bernard Shaw
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TLS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, personal letterhead, November 7, 1916. Letter to Mr. Bernstein. In part: “It is very kind of you
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George Bernard Shaw662 - George Bernard Shaw
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Crisp ink signature, “G. Bernard Shaw, Strathpeffer, 21/9/25,” on an off-white 7 x 3 sheet. In very fine condition.
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Raphael Soyer663 - Raphael Soyer
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Two color book prints, approximately 8 x 10.5, each signed in ballpoint and individually suede-matted to overall sizes of 13 x 16. In fine, clean cond
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