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
76 William Butler Yeats; Lady Gregory

Set of All 4 Volumes of the Coole Edition of Irish Folk Tales

Norwalk, CT 2000 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
77

Group of 14 Signed Limited Editions by Journalists

Norwalk, CT ca. 20th - 21st centuries USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 270.00
78 James Joyce; Henri Matisse

Ulysses

Norwalk, CT 1996 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
79

Group of 28 Historical Titles in 29 Volumes

V.p. ca. 20th - 21st centuries USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 390.00
80 Carlos Castaneda; M. Scott Peck

Pair of Signed First Editions, Including Carlos Castaneda

Norwalk, CT 1993 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
81 Sandra Day O'Connor; H. Alan Day; Scott Brown; James M. Jeffords; Shimon Peres; Terry Waite; Hanan Ashrawi

Group of 6 Signed Limited Editions of Books by Politicians and Newsmakers

Norwalk, CT ca. 20th - 21st centuries USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
82 Oshinsky; Bird; Sherwin; Elkins; Brooks; Emerson

Set of 5 Signed Limited Editions by Pulitzer Prize Winners

Norwalk, CT 2006 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
83 Frank Herbert; Clifford Simak; Philip Jose Farmer; Orson Scott Card; John Brunner

Group of 5 Science Fiction Novels

Norwalk, CT ca. 20th - 21st centuries USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
84 Michael Lang

The Road to Woodstock

Norwalk, CT 2009 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
85 Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Norwalk, CT 1999 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
86 L. Frank Baum

Complete Set of All 6 Facsimile Editions of the Oz Books

Norwalk, CT 1987-1993 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 720.00
87 George H. W. Bush; Barbara Bush

Pair of Signed, Limited Editions

Norwalk, CT 1994; 1999 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
88 Winston S. Churchill; Franklin D. Roosevelt

Churchill and Roosevelt the Complete Correspondence

Norwalk, CT 1995 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
89 Winston S. Churchill

The First World War

Norwalk, CT 1991 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 390.00
90 Winston S. Churchill

The Second World War

Norwalk, CT 1989 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 510.00
91 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

War Speeches 1939-1945

Norwalk, CT 2001 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 270.00
92 Paulo Coelho

The Illustrated Alchemist

Norwalk, CT 2013 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
93 F. Scott Fitzgerald

Group of 7 Elaborately-Bound Illustrated Titles

Norwalk, CT 1991 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 540.00
94 Gerald R. Ford; Jimmy Carter

Group of 4 Signed, Limited Editions

Norwalk, CT 1987-1992 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
95 Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Bully Pulpit

Norwalk, CT 2013 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
96 Arthur Miller; Burt Bacharach; Larry King; Jim Davis; A. E. Hotchner; Charles Grodiin; Arianna Huffington; Graham Nash; Jermaine Jackson

Group of 11 Signed First Edition Autobiographies or Biographies

Norwalk, CT 20th - 21st centuries USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 270.00
97

Group of 38 Titles in 40 volumes

Norwalk, CT ca. 20th - 21st centuries USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 960.00
98 Douglas Brinkley; Stephen E. Ambrose; John Berendt

Group of 4 Signed Limited Edition Non-Fiction Books

Norwalk, CT 1994-2009 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 330.00
99

Group of 58 Titles in 62 Volumes

Norwalk, CT ca. 20th - 21st centuries USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,560.00
100 John Keegan

The First World War [and] The Second World War

Norwalk, CT 2000 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
  • 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
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    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
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    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