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Potter & Potter Auctions
5001 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States
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Step Right Up: Circus and Sideshow Memorabilia
Featuring the collection of lifelong circus collector John Diesso, this auction includes heralds, couriers, and posters advertising the "greatest shows" of yesteryear. Photographs, route books, scrapbooks, and circus costumes will be also be offered, spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. PURCHASE CATALOG
Start: Thu, Sep 3, 11:00AM EDT
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Select Rarities: Exceptional Books and Paper Treasures
Potter and Potter Auctions is honored to offer an incredible group of books, autographs, magazines, newspapers and other treasures in this exceptional premium sale. Many items represent unique, once-in-a-lifetime collecting opportunities for collectors. PURCHASE CATALOG
Start: Thu, Sep 10, 11:00AM EDT
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Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos
Join us for Weird Tales! Explore rarities of tattooing, enter a crypt of the odd and curious, and prepare to believe that life exists beyond our world. Featuring narrative art of UFO abductions by David Huggins, rarified tattoo flash and memorabilia, and curios across several categories, Weird Tales! is one of Potter & Potter’s most eclectic auctions to date. (And that's saying something.)
Start: Thu, Oct 1, 11:00AM EDT
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Coin Op, Advertising & Carnival
Featuring the collection of lifelong coin-op enthusiast and bon vivant Tim LaGanke, our fall auction features arcade machines, carnival rides, automatons, animated window displays, and all manner of unusual mechanical novelties. Complementing these animatronic and coin-operated marvels are a host of vending and slot machines, gambling devices, masks, and unusual objects from days gone by.
Start: Thu, Oct 15, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Thu, Oct 15, 11:00AM EDT
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Houdini Returns: The Centennial Auction
Marking 100 years since the death of Harry Houdini, Potter & Potter will present a landmark sale of Houdini memorabilia on October 31, 2026 at the famed Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. The sale brings to the public for the very first time 100 historic items from the collection of Kevin Connolly, many of which were personally owned by Houdini. PURCHASE CATALOG PURCHASE DELUXE CATALOG
Start: Sat, Oct 31, 04:00PM EDT
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Autumn Chills: Fine Horror and Mystery Literature
Our fall sale of fine books & manuscript focuses on rare horror and mystery first editions, scarce pulps and zines, manuscripts, and more by the most famous creators of modern horror and mystery. Among the highlights are the true first edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula and other cornerstones of the genre.
Start: Thu, Nov 12, 11:00AM EST
Start: Thu, Nov 12, 11:00AM ESTNov 1211:00AM ESTStart: Thu, Nov 12, 11:00AM EST
![[ORIGINAL BOOK ARTWORK]. [MALVERN, Corinne (1901-1956), illustrator]. Frosty the Snow Man [New York: The Golden Press, ca. 1950].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3796/37966014.jpeg?t=1WJEkk)
![[ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS]. [WILSON, William Griffith "Bill" (1895-1971)]. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3745/37456794.jpeg?t=1WxkES)
![[WOMEN'S RIGHTS]. WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. London: J.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3796/37966000.jpeg?t=1WJEkj)
![HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3796/37966011.jpeg?t=1WJEkj)
![CARROLL, Lewis (pseudonym of DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898)). Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 188](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3796/37966032.jpeg?t=1WJEkk)
![[TATTOO]. NOLAN, Don (American, 1938 - 2009). Hand-Colored Original Art Flash Sheet. American, 1980 .](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3832/38329904.jpeg?t=1WSpU6)
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![[ORIGINAL BOOK ARTWORK]. [MALVERN, Corinne (1901-1956), illustrator]. Frosty the Snow Man [New York: The Golden Press, ca. 1950].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3796/37966014.jpeg?t=1WJEkk)
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![[ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS]. [WILSON, William Griffith "Bill" (1895-1971)]. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3745/37456794.jpeg?t=1WxkES)
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![[WOMEN'S RIGHTS]. WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. London: J.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3796/37966000.jpeg?t=1WJEkj)
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$12,000 - $15,000 -
![HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3796/37966011.jpeg?t=1WJEkj)
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$10,000 - $20,000 -
![CARROLL, Lewis (pseudonym of DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898)). Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 188](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3796/37966032.jpeg?t=1WJEkk)
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$6,000 - $8,000 -
![[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. BROOKS, Gwendolyn (1917-2000). A Street in Bronzeville. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3796/37966007.jpeg?t=1WJEkj)
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![[ORIGINAL ETCHINGS]. [MOSER, Barry (b. 1940), illustrator]. The Death of the Narcissus. Eleven Botanico-Erotic Etchings by Barry Moser. [Easthampton,](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3796/37966025.jpeg?t=1WJEkk)
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![[JESUIT MISSIONARIES]. [DU JARRIC, P. Pierre (1566-1617)]. Thesaurus Rerum Indicarum... Coloniae Agrippinae: Petri Henningius, 1615.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3796/37966005.jpeg?t=1WJEkj)
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$400 - $600
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