RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 735, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 11, 2026 - February 11, 2026
Page Size: 547 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
574

Frank Willard Original 'Moon Mullins' Publicity Artwork

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 303.00
575

Guillaume Apollinaire Autograph Letter Signed to His Muse, from the Front Lines of WWI: "No way to write many verses right now"

1915 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,583.00
577

L. Frank Baum Autograph Letter Signed, Heading to Broadway During the Wizard of Oz Musical's Run

1904 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,819.00
578

Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Letter Signed as "Mark Twain"

1870 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,726.00
579

Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Letter Signed, Declining an Invitation to West Point

1884 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,411.00
580

Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed, Declining a Position at the Crosby Hall Institution

1845 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,709.00
581

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed: "This book is true and the people in it are true too"

no date but circa mid-1940s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,001.00
587

Thomas Carlyle Autograph Letter Signed - "Emerson, our New-England friend, is come to town"

1848 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 598.00
588

Raymond Chandler Contract Signed - Granting TV and Radio Rights for 'Philip Marlowe'

1951 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
589

Jean Cocteau Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch

1960 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,133.00
590

Jean Cocteau Autograph Letter Signed

1955 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 405.00
591

Roald Dahl Signed Book - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

1978 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 723.00
592

Charles Dickens Signature

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 875.00
593

Charles Dickens: Christopher North: A Memoir of John Wilson, Vols. I and II - From the Personal Library of Charles Dickens

1862 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 756.00
594

Theodore Dreiser Autograph Letter Signed, Reviewing a Tragedy: "It appealed to me as a natural and forceful piece of realism"

1918 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
595

Robert Frost Signature

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 4,038.00
596

Julia Ward Howe Autograph Letter Signed

no date USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
597

Aldous and Julian Huxley (2) Autograph Letters Signed

1957 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
598

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph Letter Signed to a Fellow Poet

1881 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
599

Mary O'Hara Oversized Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
600

Dr. Seuss Signed Book - I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew

1965 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,059.00
601

Madame de Stael Autograph Letter Signed

no date USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
602

John Steinbeck Signature

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 596.00
603

Rabindranath Tagore Signature

1913 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
604

Noah Webster Autograph Letter Signed on His aEUoeElementary Spelling BooksaEU

1833 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 3,336.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.