Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Featuring Mystery and Detective Literature, 1210, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 24, 2025 - July 24, 2025
Page Size: 614 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

[AMERICAN MILITARY]. Group of 4 Titles, 3 Signed by Military Members

[V.p.] [19th -- 20th centuries] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
27

[AMERICAN MILITARY]. Group of 5 Titles by or About American Generals, All Signed

[V.p.] [20th century] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
28 STIGLIANI, Tommaso (1573-1651)

[THE AMERICAS]. [COLUMBUS, Christopher (1541-1506), subject]. Il Mondo Nuovo

Rome 1628 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
29 ULLOA, Don Antonio de (1716-1795)

[THE AMERICAS]. Noticias Americanas: Entretenimientos Phisicos-Historicos, sobre La America Meridional...

Madrid 1772 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
30

[AMERICAN LIBRARIES]. Group of the First 28 Annual Reports for the Providence Athenaeum

Providence 1842-63 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
31

[AMERICAN LIBRARIES]. Proceedings of the Dedication of the Building for the Public Library of the City of Boston

Boston 1858 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
32 ANDERSON, Sherwood

Dark Laughter

New York 1925 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
33 [RALEY, Dorothy, editor]

[ARCHITECTURE]. A Century of Progress Homes and Furnishings

Chicago [1934] USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
34 ARLEN, Harold (1905-1986) and KOEHLER, Ted (1894-1973)

Americanegro Suite. Four Spirituals a Dream and a Lullaby

New York [1941] USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
35 FRANCHEVILLE, M. Abbe

[ARMORIAL BINDING]. [THIRTY YEARS WAR]. L'Histoire des Dernieres Campagnes et Negociations de Gustave-Adolphe en Allemagne...

Berlin 1772 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
36 HARTT, Frederick (1914-1991)

[ART]. [MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI (1475-1564), artist]. The Sistine Chapel...

New York 1991 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
37 GROSZ, Elizabeth, GROYS, Boris, KAY, Jackie, et al.

[ART]. Fresh Cream. Contemporary Art in Culture

[London/Paris] [2000] USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
38

[ART]. Group of 21 Issues of Illustrated Artist Books Published by German

Leipzig [ca. late 19th -- early 20th centuries] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
39 QUINN, John (1870-1924)

[ART IN AMERICA]. Memorandum Against the Imposition of Any Duty on Original Works of Art

New York [n.d., ca. 1913] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
40

[AUSTRALIAN ART]. Group of 16 Early Art Magazines Issues, plus Four Art Books

[Sydney] [1916-34] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
41

[ART REFERENCE BOOKS]. Group of 17 Art Reference Books

[V.p.] [20th century] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
42

[AUCTION CATALOGS]. Group of Nearly 100 Auction Catalogs from Swann Galleries

New York [ca. 1980s-2010s] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
43

[AVIATION]. ["FLIGHT LIEUTENANT"]. Hints for Flight Sub-Lieutenants Royal Naval Air Service

London 1916 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
44 [MALLARME, Stephane (1842-1898), editor]

[BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-1867), subject]. Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire... precede d'une etude sur les textes de Les Fleurs du Mal

Paris 1896 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
45 BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989)

Waiting for Godot. Tragicomedy in 2 Acts...

New York [1954] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
46 BERNSTEIN, Carl (b. 1944) and WOODWARD, Bob (b. 1943)

All the President's Men

New York [1974] USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
47 BESTER, Alfred (1913-1987)

The Demolished Man

Chicago [1953] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
48

[BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. Group of 15 volumes, mainly Western Americana

Norman 1959 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
49 BLATTY, William Peter (1928-2017)

The Exorcist

New York [1971] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
50 BLOCH, Robert (1917-1994)

Psycho. An Inner Sanctum Mystery

New York 1959 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
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