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

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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
153

Social Distortion / D-Generation / H2O at The Masquerade

Circa 2000s USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 270.00
154

Two Posters / The Stiffs with D Generation and The Radicts at CBGBs

1993 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 108.00
155

The Pretty Things Signed Poster

Circa 1960s/1998 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
156 TRISTAN, Brian (b. 1959).

Kid Congo Powers reads Mundungus / 8BC at 8BC

Circa 1980s USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
157 [JOHN SEX (John McLaughlin, 1956--1990)].

Bill Landis Presents Velvet Mania at Club 57

New York 1979--1983 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 570.00
158

[FILM]. Group of 15 Film Screening and Performance Art Flyers, Handbills, and Ephemera

2000 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
159

Group of 26 Punk and Rock Flyers and Handbills

Circa 1960s-2000s USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 510.00
160

Group of 43 Punk, Post-Punk, Rock, Reggae, and Ska Handbills and Flyers...

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 420.00
161

Three pieces of 1970s NYC and London Punk Ephemera

Circa 1970s USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
162

Three Pieces of Punk Ephemera

1970s--1980s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
163

[DOWNTOWN SCENE]. More Than 30 Flyers to Downtown Manhattan Concerts and Club Events

Circa 1980s--1990s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 780.00
164 KERN, Richard (American, b. 1954).

[DOWNTOWN SCENE]. Five Flyers

New York ca. 1980s USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 840.00
165 KERN, Richard (American, b. 1954).

[DOWNTOWN SCENE]. Banned Performance / Rare Films Flyer

1984 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
166 KERN, Richard (American, b. 1954).

[DOWNTOWN SCENE]. Four Flyers

Circa 1980s USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
167

[DOWNTOWN SCENE]. Three Black Snakes Flyers

1987 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
168

Group of Flyers and Handbills for Film Screenings, Punk Shows, Drag Shows, and Performance Art at NYC Venues

Circa 1980s--2000s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 300.00
169

Memorial for Burlesque Legend Dixie Evans

Circa 2013 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
170

Group of Gay Nightlife Flyers and Handbills

New York ca. 1980s--1990s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 240.00
171

Two Burlesque Posters

2000 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
172

Super Dance-A-Rama

Circa 1968 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 150.00
173

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. Burlesque / "Kiss Me Baby"

Baltimore ca. 1957 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 480.00
174

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. Club Bali / Silas Green Revue

ca. 1940s-1950s USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 480.00
175 TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Valio Laaksonen, 1920--1991).

Falcon's Lair

Circa 1970s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 840.00
176

Group of Nearly 65 Handbills and 2 Calendars for the Legendary New York Gay Nightclub, Jackie 60

[1990s] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
176a

Jackie 60 / Group of 13 Posters

Circa 1995 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
  • 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
  • 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
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