Potter and Potter Auctions: Hollywood, Pop Culture, & Collectibles, 22896, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
Page Size: 447 items in 18 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Collection of Professional Theatrical Headshots and Portraits

New York early 20th Century USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
2

Collection of Broadway Revue Showgirl Portraits

New York; Los Angeles early 20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
3 Disney Walter E. (1901 - 1966)

Typed letter signed to Chester Morris

1955 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,750.00
4 McCarthy Floyd (1913-1999)

Photograph inscribed and signed by Bogart and Bacall

1946 USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,625.00
5 McDowall Roddy (1928 - 1998)

Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow double signed photograph

Los Angeles ca. 1966 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 625.00
6 Farrow Mia (b. 1945); Sinatra Frank (1915 - 1998)

Signed Letter to Chester Morris

Los Angeles late 1960s USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
7 Steinke Bettina (1913-1999)

Inscribed portrait illustration

1940s USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 406.25
8 Davis Sammy Jr. (1925-1990)

Signed personal letter to Chester Morris

New York 1965 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
9

Golden Age Hollywood Actor and Entertainer Signed Portraits

ca. mid-20th century USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
10

Signed Portrait Photographs

ca. mid-20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
11 Barrymore Lionel (1878 - 1954)

Inscribed and Signed Portrait Photograph

early/mid 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
12 Addams Charles (1912 - 1988)

Hearse scene New Yorker cartoon

1963-8 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 12,500.00
13

Chester Morris's personal guest book

New York 1942 -1948 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,125.00
14

Candid Photograph with Newly Married Couple, Chester and Lili Morris

ca. 1940s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
15 Crawford Joan (1906 - 1977)

Signed Personal Correspondence with Chester Morris

London 1966 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 218.75
16 Ball Lucille (1911 - 1989)

Three Signed Letters to Chester Morris

1964-1967 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 812.50
17

Chester Morris' USO Performance Archive

1940-1945 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 468.75
18 McBride Clifford (1901 - 1951)

Three Panel Comic Strip

circa 1940s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
19 Welles Orson (1915 - 1985)

The Mercury Wonder Show Magic Show Broadside and Performance Ticket

Los Angeles 1943 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,187.50
20 Morris Chester (1901 - 1970)

Headlined Variety Show Broadside

Camp Roberts California 1944 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 406.25
21 Morris Chester (1901 - 1970)

The Mysterious Morris Magic Performance Photograph Collection

circa late 1940s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
24

Confessions of Boston Blackie

New York 1941 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 62.50
25

My Fair Lady Correspondence and Group of Signed Letters

1950s/60s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
26

20 Letters, including: Personal and Professional Correspondence from Members of Hollywood's Golden Age

1940s-1960s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
27

Advise and Consent Production Ephemera

early to mid 20th century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
  • 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