Potter and Potter Auctions: Summer Fine Books & Manuscripts, 22825, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Warhol Andy (1928-1987) | Andy Warhol’s Interview. The Crystal Ball of Pop |
Paris | 2004 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 281.25 |
| 27 | Seran de la Tour (ca. 1700-1770) | L'art de Sentir et de Juger en Matiere de Gout |
Paris | 1762 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 156.25 |
| 28 | Gerard Alexander (1728-1795) | An Essay on Taste |
London | 1759 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 29 | Smith William Gardner (1927-1974) | South Street |
New York | 1954 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 30 | Smith William Gardner (1927-1974) | Last of the Conquerors |
New York | 1948 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 31 | Brooks Gwendolyn (1917-2000) | Annie Allen |
New York | 1949 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 32 | King Martin Luther (1929-1968) | Stride Toward Freedom. The Montgomery Story |
New York | 1958 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 33 | Campbell Walter L. (b. 1807) | State of Louisiana Bill of Sale for a Slave Boy to John Schen |
New Orleans | 1860 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,187.50 |
| 34 | Hughes Langston (1901-1967) | One-Way Ticket |
New York | 1949 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
| 35 | Jackson Andrew Webster | A Sure Foundation |
Houston | 1940 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 36 | Brown William Wells (1814-1884) | My Southern Home: or, the South and Its People |
Boston | 1880 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 37 | Walker Margaret (1915-1998) | Jubilee |
Boston | 1966 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 812.50 |
| 38 | Brewer J. Mason (1896-1975) | The Word on the Brazos. Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas |
Austin | [1953] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 39 | King Martin Luther Jr. (1929-1968) | Letter from Birmingham City Jail |
1963 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 3,250.00 | |
| 40 | Wright Richard (1908-1960) | Native Son |
New York | 1940 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 41 | Hughes Langston (1901-1967) | The Weary Blues |
New York | 1926 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 42 | Brewer J. Mason (1896-1975) | Negro Legislators of Texas And Their Descendants |
Dallas, TX | [1935] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 43 | Jackson Andrew Webster | A Sure Foundation |
Houston, TX | [1940] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 44 | Brewer J. Mason (1896-1975); Biggers John T. (1924-2001) | Aunt Dicy Tales. Snuff-Dipping Tales of the Texas Negro |
Texas | 1956 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 45 | Angelou Maya (1928-2014); Biggers John (1924-2001) | Our Grandmothers |
New York | [1994] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
| 46 | Mott Abigail (1795-1846) | Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color |
New York | [1839] | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 47 | Himes Chester B. (1909-1984) | If He Hollers Let Him Go |
Garden City | 1945 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
| 48 | Du Bois W. E. B. (1868-1963) | Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace |
New York | [1945] | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 812.50 |
| 49 | Johnson James Weldon (1871-1938) | The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man |
Garden City | [1927] | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 687.50 |
| 50 | Drake St. Clair (1911-1990); Cayton Horace R. (1903-1970) | Black Metropolis. A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City |
New York | [1945] | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 500.00 |
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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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July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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