RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 733, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 14, 2026 - January 14, 2026
Page Size: 627 items in 26 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
328

Jorge Luis Borges Autograph Poem Signed with Original Artwork by Raul Russo

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
329

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Handwritten Poem - A Translation of a Chorus by Euripides

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
330

Samuel Clemens Partial Autograph Manuscript Signed for '1,002nd Arabian Night,' completed during the same summer as Huckleberry Finn

 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
331

Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Note Signed: "This 'interview' is a merely a lie"

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
332

Samuel L. Clemens Signature

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
333

Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Letter Signed, Declining a Secretary's Application: "In my other work I am obliged to use the pen myself"

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
334

James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757 (First UK Edition)

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
335

F. Scott Fitzgerald Typed Letter Signed to Literary Agent Harold Ober: "Things having reached a stale-mate here with Zelda I am moving her on the advice of several doctors to a new environment, a sanitarium in Asheville"

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
336

F. Scott Fitzgerald Document Signed - Fitzgerald's Last Movie Contract with Twentieth-Century Fox

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
337

Gustave Flaubert Autograph Letter Signed to His Lover on Writing Madame Bovary: "Oh, Bovary, what a grinding millstone it is for me"

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
338

Ian Fleming: Complete Set of (14) US First Editions of the James Bond Novels

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
339

E. M. Forster Signed Book - A Passage to India (Ltd. Ed. 142/200)

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
340

William Golding: Lord of the Flies (First Edition)

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
341

Ernest Hemingway Signed Photograph of Lion and Prey, Taken During a 1934 Safari

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
342

Victor Hugo Signed Photograph and Autograph Letter Signed

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
343

Victor Hugo: Royalty Statement for Lucrece Borgia, Les Miserables, and Rigoletto (1881)

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
344

Washington Irving Handwritten Manuscript Chapter from His Biography of George Washington

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
345

Rudyard Kipling Hand-Corrected Typed Manuscript for "The King's Ankus" - The 'Crown Jewel' of His Jungle Book Stories

 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Unknown
346

Rudyard Kipling Autograph Quotation Signed and Typed Letter Signed: "Not as a ladder from Earth to Heaven - / Not as a witness to any creed: / But simple service simply given / To his own kind in their common need"

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
347

Herman Melville Autograph Letter Signed, Declining an Encyclopedia Writing Job

 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
348

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (First Edition)

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
349

Sylvia Plath Typed Letter Signed to Ted Hughes's Parents, on Their Work in American Academia: "I'll have to read all the books by Hawthorne, Melville and Henry James"

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
350

J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (First Edition)

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
351

Robert Louis Stevenson Handwritten Manuscript for "The Plains of Nebraska"

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
352

William Makepeace Thackeray Handwritten Manuscript for 'The Newcombes'

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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