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
353

Hunter S. Thompson Archive: Early Draft of Better Than Sex, Prepared for Random House (c. 1992-1994), with Signed First Edition

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
354

Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed on His Voyages Extraordinaires

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
355

Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed, Commenting on His Early Works: "I have in my portfolio tragedies, dramas, comedies, Italian comedies, melodramas, and vaudevilles in prose and verse, which will never see the light of day"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
356

H. G. Wells Handwritten Letter on His "Best Book," Commenting on The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and Dr. Moreau

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
357

Thomas Wyatt Document Signed - Excessively Rare Autograph of the 16th-Century English Poet, Who Introduced the Sonnet to English Literature

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
358

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: Le Mariage de Figaro

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
359

Edgar Rice Burroughs Document Signed for Tarzan Films by RKO

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
360

Raymond Chandler Signed Contract for 'The Big Sleep' - Initialed 13 Times!

USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
361

Raymond Chandler Document Signed, Outlining Terms for an Agency Contract

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
362

Raymond Chandler Document Signed for Paramount Pictures

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
363

Jean Cocteau Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
364

Jean Cocteau Signed Sketch

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
365

Jean Cocteau Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to Picasso

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
366

Charles Dickens Signature

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
367

Ian Fleming: Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, Adventures 1"3 (First Editions)

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
368

Robert Frost Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
369

Erle Stanley Gardner Signed Book - The Case of the Waylaid Wolf

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
370

Ernest Hemingway Handwritten To-Do List

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
371

James Hilton Signed Book - Goodbye, Mr. Chips

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
372

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Autograph Quotation Signed - Handwritten Section from the Wartime Poem 'Union and Liberty'

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
373

Julia Ward Howe Autograph Quotation Signed

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
374

Julia Ward Howe Autograph Manuscript Signed for a Poem Honoring Henry Ward Beecher

USD 750.00 - 800.00 Unknown
375

Henrik Ibsen Signature

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
376

Stephen King Signed Souvenir Typescript from Cujo

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
377

D. H. Lawrence Handwritten Poem on the Publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover

USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
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