Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 22200, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 14, 2026 - May 14, 2026
Page Size: 497 items in 20 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 Ernest Hemingway

Autograph Letter Signed to His Father as a Child - Possibly the Second Earliest Known Letter by Hemingway

Oak Park, IL 1908; 1909 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,520.00
252 Ernest Hemingway

Autograph Letter Signed to Arnold Gingrich

Habana, Cuba 1933 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 3,360.00
253 Ernest Hemingway

Autograph Postcard Signed to His Father as a Child - Possibly the Earliest Known Letter by Hemingway

Walloon Lake, Mich. ca. 1907 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 14,400.00
254 Ernest Hemingway

Bullfighting, Sport & Industry

Sacramento, CA 1999 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,800.00
255 Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

New York 1940 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,400.00
256 Ernest Hemingway

Green Hills of Africa

New York 1935 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,760.00
257 Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

New York 1927 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,560.00
258 Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

New York 1925 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
259 Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

New York 1925 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
260 Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

New York 1930 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
261 Ernest Hemingway

Men Without Women

New York 1927 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
262 Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

New York 1952 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,880.00
263 Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

New York 1952 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 960.00
264 Ernest Hemingway

The Torrents of Spring

New York 1926 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
265 Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not

New York 1937 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 330.00
266 Ernest Hemingway

Today is Friday

Englewood, NJ 1926 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 480.00
267 Ernest Hemingway

The Torrents of Spring: A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race

New York 1926 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,000.00
268 Ernest Hemingway

Winner Take Nothing

New York; London 1933 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 1,680.00
269 Hermann Hesse; Jorge Luis Borges

Group of 5 First American Editions

1968; 1979 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
270 Tony Hillerman

Dance Hall of the Dead

New York 1973 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 360.00
271 Tony Hillerman

The Blessing Way

New York 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
272 Tony Hillerman

The First Eagle

New York 1998 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 330.00
273 Lt. Colonel Henry William Lovett Hime

Group of 4 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Fair Copy

London ca. 1800s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
274 Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

London 1942 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 660.00
275 Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai Painting Landscape Print Collection

Tokyo n. d. ca. 1970s USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 420.00
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000