RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts, 741, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
481 Stephen King

Stephen King Signed Book - The Dead Zone (First Edition)

NY 1979 Not Available USD 2,276.00
482 C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

C. S. Lewis Autograph Note Signed on 'What Makes a Man Great'

N/A Not Available USD 3,445.00
483 H. Melville

Herman Melville Autograph Letter Signed on Lecturing 'The South Seas'

1859 Not Available Not Sold
484 Margaret Mitchell Marsh (Mrs. J. R. Marsh)

Margaret Mitchell Typed Letter Signed on the Genesis of Gone With the Wind, Sent to Its First Reader: "I am writing to thank you for the part you played in the acceptance and publication of my book, now titled 'Gone With The Wind'"

1936 Not Available USD 15,679.00
485 Sydney Porter (1862–1910)

O. Henry Autograph Letter Signed

N/A Not Available USD 2,069.00
486 George

George Orwell Autograph Letter Signed on the Progress of Nineteen Eighty-Four

1947 Not Available USD 24,995.00
487 Geo. Orwell

George Orwell Typed Letter Signed: "Since you asked for a copy of my autograph, here it is"

1946 Not Available USD 8,666.00
488 Elizabeth Gaskell

Beatrix Potter Signed Book from Her Personal Library - Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

London 1874 Not Available USD 1,411.00
489

J. K. Rowling (2) Signed Books - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

London 1997 Not Available USD 5,504.00
490 Ernest Shepard (1879-1976)

Ernest Shepard Signed Sketch - Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet

ND Not Available Not Sold
491 Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Document Signed for His Unfinished Autobiographical Novel, "Adventures in the Skin Trade"

1952 Not Available Not Sold
492

J. R. R. Tolkien Typed Letter Signed with Original Rally Magazine Sketch

1966 Not Available Not Sold
493 L. M. Alcott; A. Bronson Alcott

Louisa May and Amos Bronson Alcott (3) Signed Items

1869 Not Available USD 1,650.00
494 Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou Signed Book - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Norwalk, CT 2015 Not Available USD 446.00
496 J.M.B.

James M. Barrie Autograph Letter Signed

1931 Not Available USD 250.00
499 W. C. Bryant & Co.

William Cullen Bryant Autograph Letter Signed

1870 Not Available Not Sold
500

Karel Capek Signed Book - Marsyas, or On the Edge of Literature (Marsyas, cili na okraj literatury) - Inventor of the Word 'Robot'

1931 Not Available USD 334.00
501 Samuel L. Clemens

Samuel L. Clemens Signature as "Mark Twain"

ND Not Available USD 1,059.00
502 J. Fenimore Cooper

James Fenomire Cooper Autograph Document Signed

1846 Not Available USD 334.00
503 Noel Coward

Noel Coward Autograph Letter Signed

ND Not Available Not Sold
504 Ale. Dumas

Alexandre Dumas, pere Autograph Note Signed

ND Not Available USD 405.00
505 T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot Signed Christmas Card

1949 Not Available USD 275.00
506 Robert Frost

Robert Frost Signature

1937 Not Available USD 2,116.00
508

Langston Hughes Document Signed

1956 Not Available USD 250.00
509 Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Signature

ND Not Available USD 543.00
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000