Potter and Potter Auctions: Select Secrets, 1226, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 13, 2025 - December 13, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 156 | STODARE, Colonel (Joseph Stoddart, 1831 -- 66). | Two Performance Portraits of Colonel Stodare. |
[England | ca. 1860]. | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
| 157 | [DAVIS, Andrew Jackson (1826-1910)]. | The Spirit Messenger. Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 1, No. 26 (inclusive). |
Springfield, MA | 1850-1851 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 600.00 |
| 158 | TARBELL, Harlan (1890 -- 1960). | The Tarbell Course in Magic, Vols. 1 -- 6. |
New York | (1941 -- 54). | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 159 | THAYER, Floyd (1877 -- 1959). | Floyd Thayer's Childhood Scrapbook. |
1879 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 5,760.00 | |
| 160 | THAYER, Floyd (1877 -- 1959). | Floyd Thayer's Scrapbooks of Magic and Magicians. |
1890s -- 1950s. | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 43,200.00 | |
| 162 | THORN, Chevalier Ernst (1853 -- 1928). | Dreamland with Chevalier Ernest Thorn. |
Circa 1905. | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 163 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Portrait of Howard Thurston as a Young Man. |
Circa 1891. | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,680.00 | |
| 164 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Thurston the Great Magician. [Book of Knowledge.] |
Cincinnati & New York | 1910 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,200.00 |
| 165 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Thurston The Great Magician. Do They Come Back? |
Cincinnati | ca. 1910 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 22,800.00 |
| 166 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Thurston Spirit Cabinet Press Photo. |
Circa 1925. | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,400.00 | |
| 167 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Thurston TLS to a Fellow Magician. |
Circa 1915. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 168 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Two Photographs of Thurston Producing a Rabbit. |
[Akron, OH | 1924]. | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 4,080.00 |
| 170 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Inscribed and Signed Photo of Howard and Jane Thurston. |
Columbus | ca. 1928 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
| 172 | VALADON, Paul (1867 -- 1913). | Kellar's Mysteries. |
The 20th Century Marvel. | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 18,000.00 | |
| 175 | MINCH, Stephen (b. 1948), et al. | The Vernon Chronicles. |
Tahoma | 1987---92. | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,200.00 |
| 176 | VERNON, Dai (David Verner, 1894 - 1992). | People I Have Fooled. |
[Los Angeles?] | [1968]. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 177 | VERNON, Dai (David Verner, 1894 - 1992). | Revelations. |
Pasadena | 1984 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 179 | [WANDAS, Suzy] BAKER, Josephine (1906-75). | Signed Photo of Suzy Wandas and Josephine Baker. |
1953 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 540.00 | |
| 180 | The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, The Conjuror Unmasked. | Derby: Thomas Richardson, |
ca. 1830 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 1,800.00 | |
| 183 | WHITE, John. | Hocus Pocus: or a Ric Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities. |
[London] | ca. 1712 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 1,200.00 |
| 184 | Library of Vintage and Modern Magic Books. | A massive collection of approximately 2,500 volumes spanning the 1880s -- 2020s, |
1880s -- 2020s, | USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 12,000.00 |
