Potter and Potter Auctions: Punks, Monsters, Smut & Madmen: A Countercultural Cross-Section, 1201, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 06, 2025 - March 06, 2025
Page Size: 470 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
521

Big Black F**king Live / Owned by Steve Albini

1987 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 390.00
526 LAVEY, Anton Szandor (1930--1997) and Diane (1942--2022).

Church of Satan Founder's Vehicle Registration Card

San Francisco 1978 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 600.00
527 PYRO, Howie (Howard Kusten, 1960--2022).

Alice Cooper Group Fan Drawing on Fabric

Circa 1970s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 120.00
528 PYRO, Howie (Howard Kusten, 1960--2022).

Original Pencil Sketch

[New York] [ca. 1980s] USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 60.00
529 HOWIE PYRO (Howard Kusten, 1960--2022).

[SCRAPBOOKS]. Howie Pyro's Scrapbooks

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 900.00
530

Assorted Scraps and Ephemera Collected by Howie Pyro. Assorted...

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
531

Kid Congo Powers Holiday Card to Howie Pyro

1981 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
532 SPROUSE, Stephen (American, 1953--2004).

Birthday Card to Howie Pyro

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
533

[AUTOGRAPHS]. More than 70 Signed Headshots Inscribed to Howie Pyro

20th century USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 660.00
534

Scrapbook of American Goth Kid Anthony Siqueido

Southern California 1980s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 510.00
535

[EPHEMERA]. Group of Setlists [and] D Generation Ephemera

Circa 1995--2012 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 120.00
536

Three Items from the Legendary Gathering Place, Max's Kansas City, and a Shipping Label from Electric Lady Studios

[New York] [ca. 1980s] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
538

The Clash, The Tubes, Squeeze, Men at Work Concert Appearance Contracts

1982-84 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 270.00
539

The Gauchos Photographs and Contracts

1964-66 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
540

LABOE, Art (1925--2022)

Los Angeles, California 1973 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
541

[BUSINESS CARDS]. Large Group of Over 400 Graphic Business Cards or Card-Sized Advertisements

[ca. 2000s-20s] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 150.00
542

[DOOMSDAY CULT]. Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph Ephemera Collection

Circa 1990s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
543 ROTH, Ed "Big Daddy" (1932--2001).

Rat Fink Ephemera, Signed by Roth

Circa 1980s--1990s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 1,800.00
544

[WINDOW CARD]. Demolition Derby (Nation-Wide) World's Greatest Thrill Spectacular

Circa 1950s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 108.00
545

Three Car Racing Posters

Circa 1960s USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 120.00
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
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