RR Auction's special June sale focuses on art, literature, and classical music, and boasts a wealth of extraordinary autograph material. Musical gems include a handwritten church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, a musical sketch by Ludwig van Beethoven, and rare autographs of Franz Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini. Among the literary treasures are a remarkable, intimate archive of signed books and correspondence from John Steinbeck to his typist; books signed by Charles Dickens, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Mark Twain; and important letters by Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, J. D. Salinger, and Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien. Artists featured in the sale are Charles Schulz, Paul Gauguin, Alexander Calder, and Pablo Picasso.
