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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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Charles Dickens834 - Charles Dickens
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Partial self-contained ANS signed “Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens,” one page, 4 x 2, no date. Last paragraph of a longer letter which reads, in par
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens835 - Charles Dickens
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Bank check, 7 x 3, filled out and signed by Dickens, payable to Self for £5.0.0, January 24, 1859. In very good condition, with three vertical ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Paul Laurence Dunbar836 - Paul Laurence Dunbar
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African-American poet (1872–1906), known for his colorful use of language and dialect, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 33. Scarce vintage ink s
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Edna Ferber839 - Edna Ferber
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Well-done 8 x 10 print of an illustrated portrait of Ferber affixed to an 11 x 14 mount, signed on the mount in fountain pen. Some edge tears and chip
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Robert Frost840 - Robert Frost
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Tri-fold program for a dinner in Frost’s honor at the Lotos Club on May 24, 1962, 9 x 12, signed and inscribed in the upper right in black ink, “Rober
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Robert Frost841 - Robert Frost
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Vintage matte-finish 4 x 6.5 photo, boldly signed in the lower border in black ink. In fine condition, with some light mounting remnants to reverse an
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Elizabeth Gaskell842 - Elizabeth Gaskell
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Partial ALS signed “E. C. Gaskell,” one page, 4.5 x 3.25, no date. Conclusion of a letter to the wife of British statesman John Bright. In full: “Few
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German Authors, Composers and Painters843 - German Authors, Composers and Painters
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Menu for a banquet at the Prussian Academy of Arts in honor of poet Rudolf Binding’s 70th birthday on August 13, 1937. Numerous prominent German write
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Nathaniel Hawthorne844 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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DS, signed “Nath’l Hawthorne,” one page both sides, 8.25 x 13, October 22, 1856. Customs document in which John Holmes declares that his ship is carry
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Langston Hughes845 - Langston Hughes
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Vintage glossy 7 x 5 photo of Hughes posing outdoors, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Wesley Hartley, Sincerely, Langston Hughes 1957.” In f
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Ernest Hemingway846 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Hardcover, 6 x 8.5, 597 pages....
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway847 - Ernest Hemingway
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Superb vintage matte-finish 11.5 x 9.25 photo of Hemingway posing with a lion he brought down on safari in January of 1934, signed and inscribed in bl
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Estimate : 14,000.00 - 16,000.00
 
 
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Langston Hughes848 - Langston Hughes
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Tri-fold program for his opera entitled The Barrier, 5.5 x 8.5, January 1950, signed and inscribed on the cover in fountain pen, “For Sol—Sincerely, L
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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Washington Irving849 - Washington Irving
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Manuscript DS, one page both sides, 8 x 12.5, June 28, 1859. In fine condition, with a few partial separations along folds and some light toning.
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Rockwell Kent850 - Rockwell Kent
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Signed book: This Is My Own. First edition. NY: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1940. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25, 393 pages. Signed on the half-title page in bla
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Rockwell Kent851 - Rockwell Kent
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Signed book: Greenland Journal. Limited first edition of 1000 copies (this being No. 790). NY: Ivan Obelensky, Inc., 1962. Hardcover with slipcase, 6
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Jack Kerouac852 - Jack Kerouac
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TLS signed “Jack,” one page, 8.5 x 11, May 24, 1966. Letter to Richard Seaver. In full: “I adjure you, enjoin thee, and entreat youse to send back thi
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Rudyard Kipling853 - Rudyard Kipling
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ALS, one page both sides, 4.25 x 3.25, personal letterhead, May 5, 1911. Letter to Lord Blyth. In part: “Thank you very much indeed for that splendid
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Carl Larsson854 - Carl Larsson
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Popular Swedish painter and illustrator (1853–1919). ALS in French, three pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 6.75, Sundborn, Falen,
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D. H. Lawrence855 - D. H. Lawrence
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ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, December 18, 1913. Lawrence writes to “Davies,” from Lerici per Frascherino, Golfo della Spezia, Ita
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Federico Garcia Lorca856 - Federico Garcia Lorca
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Highly esteemed Spanish poet, playwright, and artist (1898–1936) executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. ALS in Spanish, signed “
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Estimate : 14,000.00 - 16,000.00
 
 
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Sinclair Lewis857 - Sinclair Lewis
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Signed book: Main Street. First edition. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.5, 451 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free
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Stephane Mallarme858 - Stephane Mallarme
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Major French symbolist poet and critic (1842–1898) whose work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th centur
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Estimate : 12,000.00 - 14,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Mann859 - Thomas Mann
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Highly influential, Nobel Prize–winning German novelist and social critic (1875–1955). Signed book: Rede und Antwort. Limited edition of 150 copies (t
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Thomas Mann860 - Thomas Mann
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Signed book: The Magic Mountain: Volumes I and II. Later printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 834 total pages pages. Signed in
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W. Somerset Maugham861 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Signed book: A Writer’s Notebook. Limited edition of 1000 copies (this being No. 793). NY: Doubleday, 1949. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.5 x 9.5, 367 pa
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Gregoire Michonze862 - Gregoire Michonze
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Russian-French painter (1902–1982). Original vintage signed ink sketch of a group of people in various stages of dress and celebrating, with the artis
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A. A. Milne and Ernest Shepard863 - A. A. Milne and Ernest Shepard
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Signed book: More Very Young Songs. First edition, limited issue numbered 95/100. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1928. Hardcover, 10.25 x 13, 40 p...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Eugene O’Neill864 - Eugene O’Neill
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Signed book: Collected Plays of Eugene O’Neill, Volumes I and II. Limited edition of 1200 copies (this being No. 55). NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924. Ha
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Eugene O’Neill865 - Eugene O’Neill
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ALS signed “Gene O’Neill,” one page, 6.25 x 9.5, Provincetown, Massachusetts, no date. Letter to Jeanie Begg. In full: “Thank you very much for your k
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Maxfield Parrish866 - Maxfield Parrish
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ALS, one page, 6.5 x 7.75, June 22, 1897. Letter to a gentleman. In full: “I have your letter of yesterday and should be glad to design cover, etc. fo
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Camille Pissarro868 - Camille Pissarro
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ALS in French, signed “C. Pissarro,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 3.5, no date. Letter to his wife. In full (translated): “As soon as I’ve finished my p
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ayn Rand869 - Ayn Rand
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Signed book: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Later printing. NY: Random House, 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.5, 242
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Beatrix Potter870 - Beatrix Potter
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An exceptional pair of items related to the publication of a collection of sheet music entitled The Peter Rabbit Music Books, comprised of Potter’s au
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Estimate : 16,000.00 - 18,000.00
 
 
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James R. Randall871 - James R. Randall
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Writer (1839–1908) best remembered as the lyricist of the song, ‘Maryland, My Maryland.’ ALS, one page, lightly-lined, 5 x 8, October 21, 1895. Letter
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir872 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Exquisite matte-finish 8.25 x 10 photographic print of one of Renoir’s paintings of the Seine with a boat on the water, signed in the lower border bla
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir873 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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ANS in French, signed “Renoir,” one page on a 4 x 2.25 card, no date. Note to the art critic for the magazine ‘Comoedia,’ A. Womoth, who had praised h
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Diego Rivera874 - Diego Rivera
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ANS in Spanish, one page on the reverse of a 4.75 x 3.5 Western Union telegraph slip, February 13, 1935. Untranslated note in which Rivera confirms th
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Romain Rolland875 - Romain Rolland
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French writer (1866–1944) who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature. ALS in French, one page, 3.25 x 3.75, no date. Brief untranslated letter to a f
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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau876 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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French poet (1671–1741) who was accused of writing obscene, defamatory poems and was exiled from France in 1712. ALS in French, signed “Rousseau,” thr
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J. D. Salinger877 - J. D. Salinger
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Personal check, 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Erwin H. Jache, payable to J. D. Salinger for $281.95, July 15, 1975, endorsed on the reverse by Sa
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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John Singer Sargent878 - John Singer Sargent
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Distinguished American-born artist (1856–1925) who spent most of his career as an expatriate in Europe. While he painted a variety of subjects in vari
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George Sand879 - George Sand
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Eminent French author (1804–1876), born Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known by the masculine pen name she adopted early in her career. An early
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Egon Schiele880 - Egon Schiele
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Influential, forward-looking Austrian artist (1890–1918) who takes a place among the leading figures of the Expressionist movement of the early 20th c
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Schnitzler881 - Arthur Schnitzler
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Austrian writer (1862–1931) best known for his sexually charged plays and stories. His 1926 novella Traumnovelle served as the basis for Eyes Wide Shu
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Thomas Sully882 - Thomas Sully
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British-born American painter of portraits and historical scenes (1783–1872) such as Washington's Passage of the Delaware. ALS signed “Tho’s Sul...
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Maurice Sendak883 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: Outside Over There. Later printing. NY: Harper and Row, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10.25 x 9.25. Signed and inscribed on the first
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Dr. Seuss884 - Dr. Seuss
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Original signed felt tip sketch of a green egg from his critically acclaimed Green Eggs and Ham on an off-white 6.5 x 3.75 mailing envelope, signed “D
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George Bernard Shaw885 - George Bernard Shaw
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Vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 bust portrait of Shaw with a bushy beard, bearing an ANS on the reverse in fountain pen, in full: “Dear Edward Wellen,
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George Bernard Shaw886 - George Bernard Shaw
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ALS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” one page on a 3.5 x 5.5 postcard, personal letterhead, May 27, 1947. Letter to George B. Brauer, Jr. In part: “I am neit
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