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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | M H; Tillinghast Mary | The Young Cooks Monitor: or, Directions for Cookery and Distilling, Being a Choice Compendium of Excellent Receipts; Rare and Excellent Receipts |
London | 1705; 1690 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 52 | De Quincey Thomas (1785-1859) | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
Philadelphia | 1822 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 53 | Dickinson Emily (1830-1886) | Poems |
Boston | 1892 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 54 | Dickens Charles (1812-1870) | N Books, including: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain |
London | 1843; 1845; 1846; 1848 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 55 | Dickens Charles (1812-1870) | The Nonesuch Dickens; The Nonesuch Dickensiana |
London | 1937-1938 | USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
| 56 | Doyle Arthur Conan (1859-1930) | The Vital Message |
London | [1919] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 57 | Doyle Arthur Conan (1859-1930) | The New Revelation |
London | 1918 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
| 58 | Doyle Arthur Conan (1859-1930) | The Sign of Four |
London | 1890 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
| 59 | Doyle Arthur Conan (1859-1930) | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
London | 1902 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 60 | Doyle Arthur Conan (1859-1930) | The Speckled Band |
New York; London | 1912 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 61 | Doyle Arthur Conan | The Adventure of the Dying Detective |
New York | 1918 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,250.00 |
| 63 | Folengo Theofilo | Macaronicorum Opus |
Venice | 1573 | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 64 | Avidom Menachem | Symphony No. 2 "David" |
Tel-Aviv; New York | 1951 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
| 65 | Emerson Ralph Waldo; Thoreau Henry David; Fuller Margaret | The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion |
Boston | 1841-1843 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 66 | Flynt Larry | The Hustler News / Hustler |
Cincinnati; Dayton; Columbus | 1972-1973 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 67 | Smith Percy Delf | The Dance of Death 1914-1918 |
1914-1919 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 8,750.00 | |
| 68 | Goldsmith Oliver | The Vicar of Wakefield |
London | 1904 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 69 | Grahame Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows |
London | 2008 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,125.00 |
| 70 | The Lakeside Classics |
Chicago | 1903-2019 | USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 | |
| 71 | Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
New York | 1934 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 72 | Shakespeare William 1564-1616 | The Letterpress Shakespeare |
London | 1982-2008 | USD 7,500.00 - 12,500.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
| 73 | Whitman Walt 1819-1892 | Leaves of Grass |
San Francisco | 2014 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
| 74 | Cervantes Miguel de 1547-1616; Wiley William T. 1937-2021 | Don Quixote |
San Francisco | 2009; 2010 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 75 | Hawley Frank 1906-1961 | Whales & Whaling in Japan |
Kyoto | 1958-1960 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 76 | Fitzgerald F. Scott 1896-1940 | All the Sad Young Men |
New York | 1926 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
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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. -
