Potter and Potter Auctions: Select Rarities: Exceptional Books and Paper Treasures, 23621, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 10, 2026 - September 10, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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| 1 | Wilson William Griffith 1895-1971 | Alcoholics Anonymous |
New York City | 1939 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 68,750.00 |
| 2 | Wollstonecraft Mary 1759-1797 | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
London | 1792 | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 3 | Malvern Corinne 1901-1956 | Frosty the Snow Man |
New York | ca. 1950 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Einstein Albert 1879-1955 | Autograph Post Card Signed to His Son |
Palm Springs, CA | 1931 | USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
| 5 | Einstein Albert 1879-1955 | Large Photograph Inscribed by Einstein |
Universal City, CA | ca. 1920s-1930s | USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 6 | Hemingway Ernest 1899-1961 | The Capital of the World |
1936 | USD 25,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 | |
| 7 | Hemingway Ernest 1899-1961 | Three Stories & Ten Poems |
Paris | 1923 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
| 8 | Brainard Charles Henry | Brainard's Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans |
Boston | 1855 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 9 | Nostradamus Michel de 1503-1566 | The True Prophecies or Prognostications |
London | 1672 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 4,250.00 |
| 10 | Carroll Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There |
London | 1866; 1872 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
| 11 | Doyle Arthur Conan (1859-1930) | The Lost World |
London | [1912] | USD 6,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
| 12 | Roosevelt Franklin Delano (1882-1945) | Typed Letter Signed |
Washington | 1937 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 13 | Tombstone Daily Nugget |
Tombstone | 1881 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 14 | The Holy Bible |
Cambridge | [1629] | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 | |
| 15 | Kanter Albert (1897-1973) | Classics Illustrated |
New York | 1941-1969 | USD 7,500.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 8,750.00 |
| 16 | White E. B. (1899-1985) | Charlotte's Web |
New York | [1952] | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 17 | Wilde Oscar (1854-1900) | Autograph Letter Signed |
New York | [ca. late 1882] | USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 18 | Addams Jane (1860-1935) | Twenty Years at Hull-House; Autograph Letter Signed |
New York | 1910 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 19 | Brewer J. Mason (1896-1975) | Negro Legislators of Texas And Their Descendants |
Dallas, TX | [1935] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 20 | Brooks Gwendolyn (1917-2000) | A Street in Bronzeville |
New York | 1945 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 21 | Du Bois W E B | The Gift of Black Folk |
Boston, MA | 1924 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 22 | Angelou Maya; Biggers John | Our Grandmothers |
ca. 1994 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,750.00 | |
| 23 | Walker Margaret; Catlett Elizabeth | For My People |
New York | 1992 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 24 | Spivak John L | Georgia Nigger |
New York | 1932 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 812.50 |
| 25 | Heyward Du Bose | Porgy |
New York | [1925] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
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Heritage, Nov. 18: Orson Welles. Signed Third Revised Final Draft for Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941). July 16, 1940.Heritage, Nov. 18: Bob Dylan. Autograph manuscript working lyrics to "Man on the Street."Heritage, Nov. 18: Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon. Inscribed by the author to the daughter of the Spanish Ambassador.Heritage, Nov. 18: Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Inscribed by the author.Heritage, Nov. 18: John Steinbeck. East of Eden. Inscribed by 27 members of the movie cast and crew, including James Dean and Elia Kazan.