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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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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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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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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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David Siqueiros887 - David Siqueiros
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Realist painter (1869-1974), known for his large murals in fresco that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Postcard portfolio entitled “La Marc
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Samuel Francis Smith888 - Samuel Francis Smith
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AQS on an off-white 4.25 x 5.25 sheet. Smith pens the first stanza from ‘America.’ In full: “My country, ’tis of thee, / Sweet land of liberty, / Of t
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn889 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Signed book: The Cancer Corpus (Russian edition). Moscow, 2004. Hardcover, 5.25 x 8, 477 pages. Signed and inscribed, in Russian, on the title page in
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Harriet Beecher Stowe890 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Crisp ink signature on an off-white 3.25 x 1.25 card, bearing the printed name ‘Dudley Payne Lewis.’ Matted with a printed image of the author and an
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Algernon Swinburne891 - Algernon Swinburne
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Important Victorian British poet (1837–1909) whose “decadent” subject matter (including sadomasochism and lesbianism) made him one of the most controv
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Rabindranath Tagore892 - Rabindranath Tagore
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Bengali poet, playwright, philosopher, and author (1861–1941) who became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913. Vintage ink
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Alfred Lord Tennyson893 - Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Terrific oversized engraving of one of Gustave Doré’s illustrations of a scene from Tennyson’s poetic cycle Idylls of the King, 12.25 x 16.5, s...
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Rabindranath Tagore894 - Rabindranath Tagore
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Bengali poet, playwright, philosopher, and author (1861–1941) who became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913. Remarkable
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Jean Tinguely895 - Jean Tinguely
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Swiss painter and sculptor (1925-1991) best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art in the Dada tradition. Signed book: Meta. First edition.
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J. R. R. Tolkien896 - J. R. R. Tolkien
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Merton College, Oxford, April 28, 1972. Letter to a friend, “Mrs. Robinson.” In part: “My answer is belated because I am in fac
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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