Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 1193, Chicago

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Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
477

[SPORTS ILLUSTRATED]. The First Six Issues of this Famous Sports Magazine, Plus an Original Pre-Publication Dummy Copy of the First Issue.

Chicago 1954 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 570.00
478 STEINBECK, John (1902-1968)

The Grapes of Wrath.

New York 1939 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,400.00
479 STEINBECK, John (1902-1968)

Journal of a Novel. The East of Eden Letters.

New York 1969 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 108.00
480 STEINBECK, John (1902-1968)

Of Mice and Men.

New York 1937 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,200.00
481 STEVENS, Wallace (1879-1955)

Esthetique du Mal. Poems.

Cummington, MA 1945 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
482 STEWART, James "Jimmy" (1908-1997)

Jimmy Stewart and His Poems.

New York 1989 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
483 STOKER, Bram (1847-1912)

Dracula.

New York 1897, though actually ca.1927. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 420.00
484 STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

Boston 1852 USD 7,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,760.00
485 THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family.

London 1854-55. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
486 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973)

Tree and Leaf.

London 1964 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 300.00
487 TOLKIEN, John R. R. (1892-1973)

[The Lord of the Rings trilogy]. The Fellowship of the Ring. 1956 (fifth impression)
---- The Two Towers. 1956 (fourth impression)
---- The Return of the King (second impression)
1955.

London 1956, 1955 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,120.00
488 TOOLE, John Kennedy (1937-1969)

A Confederacy of Dunces. Foreword by Walker Percy.

Baton Rouge 1980 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,280.00
489 TOOLE, John Kennedy (1937-1969)

A Confederacy of Dunces. Foreword by Walker Percy.

Baton Rouge 1980 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
490 PERRY, Commodore Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854.

Washington 1856 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,020.00
491

[VOYAGES AND TRAVEL]. Group of 13 Works Regarding Travel, Voyages, and Exploration.

V.p. ca.18th--20th century. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 360.00
492 TRUFFAUT, Francois (1932-1984)

Les aventures d'Antoine Doinel.

Paris 1970 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
493 TUROW, Scott (b. 1949)

Group of 8 Titles, Nearly All First Editions, Nearly All Signed by Turow.

V.p. ca.1990s-2000s. USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
494 [TWAIN, Mark, pseudonym of CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), ROOSEVELT, Andrew (1858-1919), CARNEGIE, Andrew (1835-1919) et al, contributors].

Liber Scriptorum.

New York 1893 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
495 RUNSER, Robert E.

Three Volumes of the Type of the Rob Run Press.

Okemon, MI 1984--86. USD 80.00 - 150.00 USD 150.00
496 [BENDER, Albert K. (1921-2016), editor].

Space Review.

Clarksburg, W. VA 1962 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 210.00
497 UPDIKE, John (1932-2009)

Group of 4 Signed First Trade Editions.

New York 1963-96. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
498 UPDIKE, John (1932-2009)

Group of 4 First Trade Editions of the "Rabbit" Books.

New York 1960-90. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 120.00
499 VAN ALLSBURG, Chris (b. 1949)

The Stranger.

Boston 1986 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
500 "JEHU JUNIOR" (pseudonym of BOWLES, Thomas Gibson, 1841-1922)

The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Soverigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day. with Biographical and Critical Notices. Vol. XVIII (Eighteenth Series)

London 1886 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 510.00
501 [GAMBI, Lucio and PINELLI, Antonio, editors].

La Galleria delle Carte geografiche in Vaticano. The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican.

Modena 1993-94. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 300.00
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
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