Potter and Potter Auctions: Winter Magic Auction Featuring the Collection of Max Maven, 1196, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 14, 2024 - December 14, 2024
Page Size: 361 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
153 [MAVEN, Max (1950 -- 2022), association].

Group of 10 film and television scripts. Including: a Mork & Mindy television script.

1982 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 510.00
154 [MAVEN, Max (1950 -- 2022), association].

G4G7 Gathering 4 Gardner Exchange Book Vols. 1-2.

2006 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 240.00
155 MAXWELL, Mike (1959 -- 2019)

The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings.

Tahoma 1986 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 330.00
156 MEAD, Eric (b. 1966)

Tangled Web.

Seattle 2006 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 210.00
157

[MEMORY]. Group of over 30 books and pamphlets.

YOUNG, Morris. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 150.00
158 MENOTTI, Francis & M.T. Silvercup.

PRISN. The Off-Color Series of Mentalism.

[Philadelphia] 1999 -- 2005. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 510.00
159

[MENTALISM]. Large group of books on mentalism and mental magic.

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,040.00
160

[MENTALISM]. Group of 24 titles.

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 390.00
161 MINCH, Stephen (b. 1948)

The Books of Wonder.

Seattle 1996 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 840.00
162 MINCH, Stephen (b. 1948)

The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley.

Tahoma 1991 -- 94. USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 420.00
163 MINCH, Stephen (b. 1948)

A Life Among Secrets.

Seattle 1992 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
164

[MIRACLE FACTORY]. Group of 3 volumes. Including: KARR, Todd (ed) Martin Gardner, Impromptu.

2015 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 300.00
165 NEALE, Robert (b. 1929)

Group of Signed First Editions. Seventeen items, including Life, Death & Other Card Tricks (2000), Tricks of the Imagination (1991), This is Not a Book (2008), The Magic Mirror (with David Parr

USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 480.00
166 NELSON, Robert.

Group of 30 Robert Nelson mentalism publications.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 270.00
167

[OCCULT]. Group of 9 titles on occult topics.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 960.00
168

[OCCULT]. Group of approximately 75 books on psychics, spiritualism, ESP, and related topics.

Bulk American and British 20th century. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,440.00
169 Al Snyder.

Osirian. V1 N1 -- V1 N6

1925 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 360.00
170

[OCCULT]. Group of approximately 120 books on occult subjects.

Size 4to and smaller. USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 4,320.00
171

[OCCULT]. Group of over 60 books on spiritualism, psychics, ESP, and related topics.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,080.00
172 PEROVICH, Michael.

The Vernon Companion.

Seattle 2014 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 510.00
173 PIERCE, Lance.

New York City Conference.

New York 1996 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,920.00
174 POTTER, Jack (compiler) and HADES, Mickey (ed.)

The Master Index to Magic in Print.

Calgary 1967-1975. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 390.00
175 PREVOST, J.

Clever and Pleasant Inventions.

Seattle 1998 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 240.00
176 Robert Cassidy, et al.

Psychic Entertainers News & Information Service / Vibrations. Partial file,

ca.1978 -- 2019. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 510.00
177 RACHERBAUMER, Jon (b. 1940)

Group of 30 books and lecture notes.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 480.00
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