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
51		[BONAPARTE, Napoleon (1769-1821), subject]. The Atrocities of the Corsican Daemon; or a Glance at Buonaparte	London	1803	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
52		[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. The Annotated Eberstadt Catalogs of Americana in Four Volumes Including Index...	New York	1965	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
53		[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. Group of 12 Assorted Bibliographies or Catalogues in 22 Volumes	[V.p.]	[19th -- 21st centuries]	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
54	WHEAT, Carl I. (1892-1966)	[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. The Mapping of the Transmississippi West	[Storrs-Mansfield]	[ca. 1995]	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
55	SHAW, Ralph R. (1907-1972) and SHOEMAKER, Richard H. (1907-1970)	[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. American Bibliography. A Preliminary Checklist 1801-1819...	New York	[1950s-90s]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
56	BRACKENRIDGE, H[ugh] H[enry] (1748-1816)	Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan, His Servant	Pittsburgh	1819	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
57	BRADBURY, Ray (1920--2012)	The Art of Playboy	New York	[1985]	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
58	BRADBURY, Ray (1920--2012)	The Illustrated Man	Garden City	1951	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
59	BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012)	The October Country	New York	[1955]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
60	BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012)	R Is for Rocket	Garden City	[1962]	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
61	BRADBURY, Ray (1920--2012)	Five Titles, Three Signed by Bradbury	[V.p.]	[ca. 1970-2000s]	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
62	DE VASCONCELLOS, Simao (1597-1671)	[BRAZIL]. Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil...	Lisbon	1865	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
63		[BRITISH HISTORY]. A List of the Names and Persons, Together with the Places of Their Freehold and Abode, Who Voted for Knights of the Shire For the County of Bucks, At the last Election held at Aylesbury, April the Fourth and Fifth, 1722	London	1722	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
64	WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892)	[BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. [BALFOUR, Arthur James (1848-1930), his copy). Elegiac Ode, The Words From President Lincoln's Burial Hymn...	London	1884	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
65	WALPOLE, Horace (1717-1797)	[BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. [EARL OF DERBY, Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 1799-1869, his copy]. Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl or Orford	London	1820	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
66	RUSSELL, Lord John (1792-1878)	[BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. Don Carlos; or, Persecution. A Tragedy in Five Acts...	London	1822	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
67	EDEN, Sir Anthony (1897-1977)	[BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden / The Eden Memoirs	London	[1960-65]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
68	THATCHER, Margaret (1925-2013)	[BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. Signed Photograph		[N.d.]	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
69	THATCHER, Margaret (1925-2013)	[BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. The Path to Power	[New York]	[1995]	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
70	[KING EDWARD VII (1841-1910), subject]	[BROADSIDE]. [CINEMA]. "... Mr. H. G. Groves (of Tunbridge Wells) begs to announce that he has made arrangements for a Magnificent Series of Animated Photographs of the Coronation State Processions..."	Tunbridge Wells	[ca. 1901]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
71	BRONTE, Charlotte (1816-1855)	The Last Sketch - Emma (a fragment of a Story by the late Charlotte Bronte). From The Cornhill Magazine	London	1860	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
72	BRYAN, William Jennings (1860-1925)	The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896	Chicago	[1896]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
73	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920--1994)	Crucifix in a Deathhand	New York [and New Orleans]	[1965]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
74	BURNETT, W. R. (1899-1982)	High Sierra	New York	1940	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
75	[BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950), association]	Pair of Signed First Editions of Books About Burroughs' Works, including: FARMER, Philip Jose. Tarzan Alive. A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke	Garden City	1972	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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