Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Featuring Mystery and Detective Literature, 1210, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 24, 2025 - July 24, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | [BONAPARTE, Napoleon (1769-1821), subject]. The Atrocities of the Corsican Daemon; or a Glance at Buonaparte |
London | 1803 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 480.00 | |
| 52 | [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. The Annotated Eberstadt Catalogs of Americana in Four Volumes Including Index... |
New York | 1965 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 180.00 | |
| 53 | [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. Group of 12 Assorted Bibliographies or Catalogues in 22 Volumes |
[V.p.] | [19th -- 21st centuries] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 54 | WHEAT, Carl I. (1892-1966) | [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. The Mapping of the Transmississippi West |
[Storrs-Mansfield] | [ca. 1995] | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 55 | SHAW, Ralph R. (1907-1972) and SHOEMAKER, Richard H. (1907-1970) | [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. American Bibliography. A Preliminary Checklist 1801-1819... |
New York | [1950s-90s] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 56 | BRACKENRIDGE, H[ugh] H[enry] (1748-1816) | Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan, His Servant |
Pittsburgh | 1819 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 57 | BRADBURY, Ray (1920--2012) | The Art of Playboy |
New York | [1985] | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 58 | BRADBURY, Ray (1920--2012) | The Illustrated Man |
Garden City | 1951 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 59 | BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012) | The October Country |
New York | [1955] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 60 | BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012) | R Is for Rocket |
Garden City | [1962] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 420.00 |
| 61 | BRADBURY, Ray (1920--2012) | Five Titles, Three Signed by Bradbury |
[V.p.] | [ca. 1970-2000s] | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 62 | DE VASCONCELLOS, Simao (1597-1671) | [BRAZIL]. Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil... |
Lisbon | 1865 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 150.00 |
| 63 | [BRITISH HISTORY]. A List of the Names and Persons, Together with the Places of Their Freehold and Abode, Who Voted for Knights of the Shire For the County of Bucks, At the last Election held at Aylesbury, April the Fourth and Fifth, 1722 |
London | 1722 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 120.00 | |
| 64 | WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892) | [BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. [BALFOUR, Arthur James (1848-1930), his copy). Elegiac Ode, The Words From President Lincoln's Burial Hymn... |
London | 1884 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 96.00 |
| 65 | WALPOLE, Horace (1717-1797) | [BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. [EARL OF DERBY, Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 1799-1869, his copy]. Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl or Orford |
London | 1820 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 66 | RUSSELL, Lord John (1792-1878) | [BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. Don Carlos; or, Persecution. A Tragedy in Five Acts... |
London | 1822 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 67 | EDEN, Sir Anthony (1897-1977) | [BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden / The Eden Memoirs |
London | [1960-65] | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 450.00 |
| 68 | THATCHER, Margaret (1925-2013) | [BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. Signed Photograph |
[N.d.] | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 69 | THATCHER, Margaret (1925-2013) | [BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]. The Path to Power |
[New York] | [1995] | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 70 | [KING EDWARD VII (1841-1910), subject] | [BROADSIDE]. [CINEMA]. "... Mr. H. G. Groves (of Tunbridge Wells) begs to announce that he has made arrangements for a Magnificent Series of Animated Photographs of the Coronation State Processions..." |
Tunbridge Wells | [ca. 1901] | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 71 | BRONTE, Charlotte (1816-1855) | The Last Sketch - Emma (a fragment of a Story by the late Charlotte Bronte). From The Cornhill Magazine |
London | 1860 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 72 | BRYAN, William Jennings (1860-1925) | The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896 |
Chicago | [1896] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 510.00 |
| 73 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920--1994) | Crucifix in a Deathhand |
New York [and New Orleans] | [1965] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 74 | BURNETT, W. R. (1899-1982) | High Sierra |
New York | 1940 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 150.00 |
| 75 | [BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950), association] | Pair of Signed First Editions of Books About Burroughs' Works, including: FARMER, Philip Jose. Tarzan Alive. A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke |
Garden City | 1972 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 96.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://pjupgrade-qadev.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
