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<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana February 16, 2023

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works…now newly imprinted. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. $100,000 to $125,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955)]. –– ORLIK, Emil (1870–1932), artist. Lithograph signed (“Albert Einstein”). N.p., 1928. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel. [The Lord of the Rings trilogy:] The Fellowship of the Ring. 1954. –– The Two Towers. 1954. –– The Return of the King. 1955. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") and Charles Dudley WARNER. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford and Chicago, 1873. $6,000 to $8,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips. Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1943. $2,000 to $3,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Black Sun Press] Proust, Marcel, 47 Unpublished Letters from Marcel Proust to Walter Berry, Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963), Spring and All, first edition, Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Washington, George (1732-1799), Autograph Letter Signed. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), Autograph Letter Signed. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), Autograph Manuscript. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Paris Commnue], Photograph album. $1,500 to $2,500.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Fleming, Ian (1908-1964), Casino Royale, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. $3,000 to $4,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Audubon, John James and the Rev. John Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America, New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, first edition, London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1952. $600 to $800.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Bhagavad Gita] Wilkins, Charles, trans., The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon…, first edition, London: Printed for C. Nourse, 1785. $700 to $1,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust: Eine Tragodie von Goethe, Hammersmith: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at the Doves Press, 1906-1910. $800 to $1,200.

<center>University Archives Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia February 1, 2023

University Archives, Feb. 1: Thomas Paine ALS Confirming Christmas Eve Attack Likely Based on Anti-Christianity, “The account you heard of a man firing into my house is true.” $24,000 to $35,000.

University Archives, Feb. 1: George Washington Gives a Horse and Guns to His Loyal Guard 10 Days Before Resigning as Commander-in-Chief. $20,000 to $30,000.

University Archives, Feb. 1: John Hancock ALS, “General Howe is bent on coming here” - Troops, Martha Washington, & 1777 Continental Congress, to Wife Dolly! $20,000 to $30,000.

<center>University Archives Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia February 1, 2023

University Archives, Feb. 1: Abraham Lincoln Boldly and Fully Signs Appointment of Consul Who Would Facilitate Bond Sales in Europe Financing Civil War. $6,000 to $7,000.

University Archives, Feb. 1: The Rarest of Dual Signed Kennedy Items! 1963 Christmas Card with "Blessed Christmas" Removed at the Last Minute for Kennedy's Jewish Friends. $15,000 to $20,000.

University Archives, Feb. 1: George Gershwin Signed Contract for 1st Production of Porgy and Bess, Also Signed by Dubose Heyward & Ira Gershwin, Historic! $15,000 to $20,000.

<center>University Archives Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia February 1, 2023

University Archives, Feb. 1: Einstein Signed, “Two years after the fall of the German Goyim” 1st Ed. of Mein Weltbild. $12,000 to $14,000.

University Archives, Feb. 1: Walt Disney Fantasia-Era Boldly Signed TLS Re: "Special Effects Department," PSA Certified Authentic & With Phil Sears COA. $6,000 to $7,000.

University Archives, Feb. 1: 1996-97 Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls Home Game-Worn Jersey Showcasing "Light" Evident Use, MEARS A5. $6,000 to $7,000.

<center>University Archives Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia February 1, 2023

University Archives, Feb. 1: Wayne Gretzky’s 1994 All-Star Used Game Jersey, Inscribed to Former MLB Player! $4,500 to $5,500.

University Archives, Feb. 1: The Astronauts Signed by All 7 Mercury Astronauts! $4,000 to $5,000.

University Archives, Feb. 1: Fabulous Edison, Firestone, Burroughs Signed Journal With 44 Original Photos, Very Rare. $4,000 to $5,000.

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: Gideon Welles, Extensive archive of personal and family papers of Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, 1791-1914. Sold September 29 — $281,000.

Swann: Charles Addams, Rock Climbers, cartoon for The New Yorker, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1954. Sold December 15 — $37,500.

Swann: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, three volumes, first edition, 1847. Sold June 16, 2022 — $23,750.

Swann: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, London, 1542. Sold October 13 — $106,250.

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Swann: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32), silver print, 1936. Sold October 20 — $305,000.

Swann: George Washington, Autograph Document Signed, with two manuscript plat maps in holograph, 1751. Sold October 27 — $37,500.

Swann: Winfred Rembert, Winfred Rembert and Class of 1959, dye on carved & tooled leather, 1999. Sold October 6 — $233,000.

Swann: M.C. Escher, Relativity, lithograph, 1953. Sold November 3 — $81,250.

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