RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring World War II, 743, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 10, 2026 - June 10, 2026
Page Size: 427 items in 18 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
366 Clemens Samuel

Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Letter Signed

N/A USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
367 Dick Philip K.

Philip K. Dick Typed Letter Signed on VALIS: "Call it kosmos or call it Logos, it was a rational structure ordering reality"

1981 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,563.00
368 Fitzgerald F. Scott

F. Scott Fitzgerald Signature: "(an old friend‰UOin fact none older)"

N/A USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,441.00
369 Hemingway Ernest

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed, Teasing a Friend and Critic: "Make up your mind definitely that I can't write, don't want to write and am a complete shit"

1936 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,753.00
370 Hemingway Ernest

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed, Lending His Lancia Car to Expatriate Friends

N/A USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,025.00
371 Joyce James

James Joyce Autograph Letter Signed to Irish Tenor John McCormack: "Shall be very disappointed if we do not hear you"

London 1924 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,106.00
372 Kafka Franz

Franz Kafka Handwritten Draft Letter on Painting: "I possess‰UOas do many people, I suspect‰UOabsolutely no innate, ‰U÷primary‰Uª eye for the visual arts"

1922 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
373 Lawrence T. E.

T. E. Lawrence Hand-Drawn Map of the Crusader Castles of Palestine

1936 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,133.00
374 Proust Marcel

Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed to Robert de Montesquiou, the Inspiration for a Character in 'In Search of Lost Time'

N/A USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
375 Salinger J. D.

J. D. Salinger Typed Letter Signed on Aging, Identity, and Politics: "The No Nukes bunch. Quiche and Volvo liberals, right. Liberals all, shitheads mostly"

1982 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
376 Sartre Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul Sartre Autograph Letter Signed with Recommended Reading: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Plato, and Freud

circa June 1940 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
377 Tolstoy Leon

Leo Tolstoy Autograph Letter Signed on the Revolutionary Movement in Georgia

1905 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,999.00
378 Wilde Oscar

Oscar Wilde Signature

1882 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,281.00
379 Vonnegut Kurt; Updike John; Doctorow E. L.; Albee Edward; Pinsky Robert; Ashbery John

Authors (6) Signed Souvenir Typescripts, with Vonnegut, Updike, and Albee

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 303.00
380 Bradbury Ray

Ray Bradbury Typed Letter Signed: "I will be official Life writer on first landing of our Apollo men on the Moon, in 1968 or 1969"

1967 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 303.00
381 Bradbury Ray

Ray Bradbury Signed Souvenir Typescript - 'Darwin, The Curious'

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
382 Twain Mark

Samuel L. Clemens Signature

N/A USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 999.00
383 Coward Noel

Noel Coward Signed Contract for the Production of 'Hay Fever' (1970)

New York 1970 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
384 Frost Robert

Robert Frost Signature

1961 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,283.00
385 Hawthorne Nathaniel

Nathaniel Hawthorne Signature

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 808.00
386 Marvell Andrew

Andrew Marvell: The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq., Poetical, Controversial, and Political, Vol.s I‰UOIII (1776)

London 1776 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
387 Mitchell Margaret

Margaret Mitchell Typed Letter Signed on the Gone With the Wind Movie: "I do not know what they decided to do about Belle's accent"

1937 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 2,069.00
388 Sandburg Carl

Carl Sandburg Signed Television Contract - "Bell Telephone Hour" (1959)

1959 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
389 Seuss Dr.

Dr. Seuss Signed $2 Dollar Bill

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 491.00
390 Updike John

John Updike Signed Broadside Poem - 'Not Cancelled Yet'

2004 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • 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