Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 22200, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 14, 2026 - May 14, 2026
| 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 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’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. -
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