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
520 Bradbury Ray

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

1953 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
521

Large Non-Sports Trading Card Collection

20th - 21st Century USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
522

Large group of horror and sci-fi trading cards

ca. 1960s-90s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 218.75
523

Collection of Popular Culture, Historical and Political Trading Cards

United States 20th/21st Century USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 218.75
524

Large Collection of Box Office and Network Hits, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Children's Movie and Television Trading Cards

United States 20th/21st century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
525 Lopez Vincent

Archive of photographs and ephemera

New York mid-20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
526 Halsman Philippe (1906-1979)

Two Women

New York ca. 1958 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
527 Davis Jr. Sammy

Signed photograph

N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
528 Bernard B.M.

5 Books, including: Souvenir programs for Josephine Baker and others

N/A USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
529 Petty George

3 Books, including: Folies Bergere, Ziegfeld Follies, and Mary Pickford items

1937; 1945 USD 125.00 - 250.00 USD 187.50
530 Schulz Charles M. (1922-2000)

A New Peanuts Book Featuring Snoopy

New York; Toronto [1958] USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
531 Bechdel Alison (b. 1960)

Dykes to Watch Out For #315 original comic strip artwork

1999 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,375.00
532 Gould Chester

Dick Tracy cartoon

1980 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 87.50
534 Ward Jay

Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, & Rocky signed animation cel

ca. 1980s USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,000.00
536 Jones Chuck (1912-2002)

Wile E. Coyote Chasing the Roadrunner

Hollywood ca. 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
537 Jacques Faith (1923-1997)

Moss and Blister

ca. 1975 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
539

Popeye

1980 USD 50.00 - 80.00 USD 87.50
542 Greenberg Hank

Hank Greenberg signed first day cover

1983 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 218.75
543

Trio of antique amateur sports team photographs

Chicago; Listowel 1907 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
544 Mays Willie; Sahadi Lou

Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays

New York 1988 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 250.00
545 Mantle Mickey; Creamer Robert

The Quality of Courage

New York 1964 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
546 Seidel Michael

Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41

New York 1988 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
549 Schmeling Max

Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung

1930 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 62.50
552 Payton Walter

A Legend Among Us

N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 187.50
553 Nicklaus Jack; Mickelson Phil

Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson signature displays

N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 156.25
  • 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