RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring World War II, 719, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 11, 2025 - June 11, 2025

Page Size: 840 items in 34 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
700	Giacomo Casanova	Giacomo Casanova Rare Autograph Letter Signed on European Wars and Politics		1790	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
701	Arthur Conan Doyle	Arthur Conan Doyle Signed Photograph from the Oscar Slater Trial - "The final round of a long fight. Justice versus the Powers of Darkness"		1928	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 10,139.00
702	[Ralph Waldo Emerson]	[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Presentation Copy of Representative Men to Earl and Ava Lovelace, the Earliest Computer Programmer	London	1850	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
703	F. Scott Fitzgerald	F. Scott Fitzgerald Autograph Letter Signed and Handwritten Poem: "She could phone to any Princeton Club / And get a dancing, if alcoholic sub"		1920	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 26,488.00
704	Stephen King	Stephen King's Personal Notebook from 1985-1986, with (80+) Handwritten Pages of Story Drafts and Early Chapters for The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three		1986	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 42,660.00
705	Harper Lee	Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed: "I apologize for being so loud on the page"		[1995]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
706	Giacomo Leopardi	Giacomo Leopardi Autograph Letter Signed on Poetry, Sending His "Poor Verses" to a Cousin		1819	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
707	Jack London	Jack London Autograph Letter Signed (1903) with Rare Handwritten References to The Call of the Wild and His First Published Novel		1903	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
708	Ayn Rand	Ayn Rand Hand-Annotated Essay - 'The Psycho-Epistemology of Art' in The Objectivist Newsletter		2007	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
709	J. D. Salinger Typed	J. D. Salinger Typed Letter Signed on Mixed Identity, Boarding Schools, and His Desire for Privacy: "It isn't sheer paranoia"		[1971]	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
710	Jean-Paul Sartre	Jean-Paul Sartre Autograph Letter Signed: "The little jars of chocolate were very good"		1937	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
711	Stendhal Autograph	Stendhal Autograph Letter Signed		circa 1840	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	Not Sold
713	Rabindranath Tagore	Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph - Rare Oversized Portrait			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
714	Ivan Turgenev	Ivan Turgenev Autograph Letter Signed, Sent to Noted French Publisher Georges Charpentier		no date [circa January 1876]	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	Not Sold
715	Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde Autograph Quotation Signed - 'The Garden of Eros'		1882	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 9,983.00
716	James M. Barrie	James M. Barrie Autograph Letter Signed - Author of Peter Pan		1903	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 375.00
717	Ray Bradbury	Ray Bradbury Typed Letter Signed		1969	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
718	Ray Bradbury	Ray Bradbury (2) Signed Books - Fahrenheit 451 and From the Dust Returned		1984, 2001	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
719	Andre Breton	Andre Breton Autograph Letter Signed		1952	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
720	Michael Crichton	Michael Crichton Typed Letter Signed to a Playboy Editor		1965	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
721	Michael Crichton	Michael Crichton Signed Book - Travels	Franklin Center, Pennsylvania	1988	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
722	Roald Dahl	Roald Dahl Autograph Letter Signed, Responding to Playboy's Request for Contributions			USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 500.00
723	Alexandre Dumas, fils	Alexandre Dumas, fils Autograph Letter Signed			USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
724	Robert Frost	Robert Frost Signed Photograph			USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 405.00
725	Robert Frost	Robert Frost Signed Book - A Masque of Mercy (Ltd. Ed. #357/751	NY	1947	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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