Potter and Potter Auctions: Select Rarities: Exceptional Books and Manuscripts, 1213, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 04, 2025 - September 04, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). | Original Typescript for His Novel, "The Heaven Makers". |
N.p., April 15 | 1968 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
| 52 | HEYWARD, Du Bose (1885-1940). Porgy. | Decorated by Theodore Nadejen. |
New York | 1925 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,640.00 |
| 53 | HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945). | Mein Kampf. Eine Abrechnung... 1. Band. |
Munich | 1925 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 5,040.00 |
| 54 | HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945). | Document Signed. "Mit Wirkung von 4.September 1944 wird ernannt:" ("Appointed effective September 4, 1944 will be:") Typed document on watermarked plain paper (watermark: "Gebr. Ebart"). |
1944 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 | |
| 55 | [ROTHACKER, Watterson (1885-1960), association]. | Guest Book for the Ranch Owned by Film Industrialist Watterson Rothacker, Signed or Inscribed by Numerous Hollywood Luminaries. |
Ca. 1930s-40s. | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 56 | HOUDINI, Harry (pseudonym of WEISS, Ehrich (1874-1926)). | A Magician Among the Spirits. Illustrated. |
New York | 1924 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,120.00 |
| 57 | HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). | The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations... With Decorations by Prentiss Taylor. |
New York: The Golden Stair Press | 1931 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 28,800.00 |
| 58 | JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). | Notes on the State of Virginia. |
London | 1787 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,360.00 |
| 59 | JOYCE, James (1882-1941). | Ulysses. |
Paris | 1922 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 5,520.00 |
| 60 | LE CARRE, John (pseudonym of CORNWELL, David John Moore (1931-2020)). | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. |
London | 1963 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 61 | LEE, Harper (1926-2016). | To Kill a Mockingbird. |
Philadelphia & New York | 1960 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 10,800.00 |
| 62 | LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). | Autograph Note Signed. |
Springfield, Ills., Oct. 23 | 1860 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 14,400.00 |
| 63 | HUNTER, General David (1802-1886). | Signed Pass to the Trial of the Co-Conspirators of John Wilkes Booth. |
1865 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,400.00 | |
| 64 | [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) and BOOTH, John Wilkes (1838-1865), subjects]. | Group of 21 Original X-Ray Films of Fragments of Lincoln's Skull and Part of Booth's Vertebrae. |
Washington, D. C. and New Smyrna Beach, FL | ca. 1981. | USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 65 | [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. DILLER, Isaac R. (1854-1948). | Signed Souvenir Print, "Lincoln Home 1860, Springfield, Illinois / Abraham Lincoln, Willie and "Tad" Inside the Fence 'Little Isaac Diller on the Sidewalk,' as Carl Sandberg Put it..." |
Springfield, IL | ca. 20th century. | USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 66 | LINCOLN, Mary Todd [Wife of Abraham Lincoln (1818-1882)]. | Autograph Letter Signed. |
Brevoort House, | no year given, likely ca. 1860s--1870s. | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
| 67 | LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969). | The Etchings of Norman Lindsay. |
London | 1927 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 7,200.00 |
| 68 | [LONDON, Jack (1876-1916) and STRUNSKY, Anna (1877-1964)]. | The Kempton-Wace Letters. |
New York | 1903 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,120.00 |
| 69 | MALAMUD, Bernard (1914-1986). | The Natural. |
New York | 1952 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,640.00 |
| 70 | MALCOLM X (nee LITTLE, Malcolm (1925-1965)). | Original Mugshot of a Young Malcolm Little, Before His Conversion to Islam. |
Boston | 1944 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 71 | MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013). | Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. |
Norwalk, CT | 2000 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 72 | MAO ZEDONG (1893-1976). | Mao Zhuxi Yulu [Quotations from Chairman Mao]. |
Peking | 1964 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,200.00 |
| 73 | MERRITT, A. (1884-1943). | Creep, Shadow! Garden City: The Crime Club, Inc. |
by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. | 1934 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 74 | MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956). | When We Were Very Young. |
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. | 1924 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,880.00 |
| 75 | MITCHELL, Margaret (a. k. a. MARSH, Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)). | Typed Note Signed with Signed Mailing Envelope. |
Atlanta, August 27 | 1941 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
![<b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/52dd1cf6-f094-4432-955c-f3b20077eb95.jpg "<b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000")
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
