Potter and Potter Auctions: Micro Magic and More, 1009, Chicago

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Auction Date
January 25, 2025 - January 25, 2025
Page Size: 147 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
132 VERNON, Dai (1894 - 1992).

Silhouette of Billy McComb by Dai Vernon.

Los Angeles [?] ca. 1970. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 780.00
168

Group of sealed Bicycle and Hoyle Playing Cards.

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 240.00
194

Alabama's Ghost.

American 1973 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 210.00
195 BELLACHINI, Fredo.

Schweizer Bellachini.

Frankfurt ca. 1915. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 390.00
196 BLACKSTONE, Harry Jr.

Blackstone / America's Foremost Magician.

1979 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
197 GERMAIN, Karl (Charles Mattmuller, 1878 - 1959).

Germain the Wizard / Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before.

Cleveland ca. 1908. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 600.00
198 GUEST, Leslie (1898 -- 1981).

Leslie Guest / Cincinnati's Most Accomplished Mystic and Entertainer.

Circa 1930s. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 840.00
199 KALANAG (Helmut Schreiber).

Kalanag / Gloria.

Bremen ca. 1956. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
200 KATER, James.

One of Our Lyceum Attractions / James Kater. Magician -- Entertainer.

Chicago ca. 1910s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
201 DE LA MANO.

De la Mano the Champion Prestidigitateur, Ambidextrous Comedian, Arch Illusionist, and Humorist is Coming!

Buffalo, NY ca. 1870. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 300.00
202

World Wide Mysteries and Illusions / I.B.M. Convention.

Circa 1930s. USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
203 ARX, Von (Chas. Nicol, 1871 - 1958).

Chas. Nicol Fake Mediums Exposed Broadside.

Ca. 1930. USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 150.00
204 BALLANTINE, Carl (1917 - 2009).

The Man Who Taught Merlin Everything He Knew Signed Poster.

2005 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 180.00
205 BARRINGTON, Frederick (1868 - ?).

A World of Mystery & Witchery.

Gary ca. 1920s. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 96.00
206 BLACKSTONE, Harry (Henry Boughton, 1885 - 1960).

Harry Blackstone Signed Photograph Display.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
207 BLACKSTONE, Harry (1885 -- 1965).

Two photographs, one signed.

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 150.00
208 CALVERT, John (Madren Elbern Calvert, 1911 - 2013).

Beyond the Sahara Signed Poster.

Ca. 1956. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 150.00
209 CALVERT, John (Madren Elbern Calvert, 1911 - 2013).

A Tribute to Houdini Signed Poster.

Ca. 1987. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 180.00
210 CALVERT, John (Madren Elbert Calvert, 1911 - 2013).

Magicarama Signed Poster.

Ca. 1995. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 120.00
212 CARDINI (Richard Pitchford, 1895 - 1973).

Cardini's Business Card File.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,680.00
213 CARDINI (Richard Pitchford, 1895 -- 1973).

Signed program.

1969 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 270.00
214 CARTER, Charles J. (1874 -- 1936).

Large group of advertising and letterhead.

Circa 1930s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 660.00
215 CHAPENDER, Martin (1879 -- 1905).

Three signed RPPCs.

1904 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,200.00
216 DANTE (Harry August Jansen, 1883 - 1955).

Portrait Photograph of Dante the Magician.

[Stockholm] ca. 1930s. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 108.00
217 DU CANN, Charles.

Professor Charles Du Cann program.

Bishop Stortford ca. 1870. USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
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    Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
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    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
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