Potter and Potter Auctions: The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part IV, 1222, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 25, 2025 - October 25, 2025
Page Size: 426 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

[ENTERTAINMENT -- MAGIC & CIRCUS]. Large Collection of Over 200 Modern and Contemporary Magic, Circus, and Related Posters and Ephemera

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 720.00
27 FAUST (Granville Taylor)

Three Signed Faust Items

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
28 GAUTIER, Louis (British, 19th/20th century)

Untitled landscape

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 450.00
29 GERMAIN, Karl (Charles Mattmuller, 1878 - 1959)

Germain the Wizard. Cleveland: Schmitz-Horning Litho

 ca. 1910 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 480.00
30 GERMAIN, Karl (Charles Mattmuller, 1878 - 1959)

The Master of Magic / Germain

 Cleveland ca. 1908 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 510.00
31

Giant Horse

 Cincinnati, OH ca. 1920s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 390.00
32 GIBSON, Charles Dana (1867-1944)

Collection of 12 Magazine Prints. 1896-1905

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 120.00
33 GOGIA PASHA (Dhanapat Rai Gogia, 1910 - 1976)

Gogia Pasha Window Cards and Ephemera

 Circa 1950s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
34 GOGIA PASHA (Dhanapat Rai Gogia, 1910 - 1976)

Gogia Pasha and his Bhoot Mahal (Haunted House)

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
35 [HOFFMANN, Professor (Angelo Lewis, 1839 -- 1919)]

Portrait of Professor Hoffmann

 1985 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 180.00
36 HOGARTH, William (1697 -- 1754), after

The Humours and Diversions of Southwark Fair, and two others

 London ca. 1835 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 450.00
37 HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 -- 1926)

Photograph of Poster of Houdini and Vignettes of Tricks

 Circa early-20th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 72.00
38 FAIRBURN, John (1789 -- 1840)

[HOUDINI]. Fairburn's Conjuror. Monsieur Chabert the Fire King

 London ca. 1815 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
39

[IT'S MAGIC]. Two It's Magic Posters, Milt Larsen

 Los Angeles 1973 & 1974 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 300.00
40 JAY, Ricky (1946 -- 2018)

All Hallows' Eve!!! Lecture-Demonstration

 Los Angeles 1984 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 720.00
41 JAY, Ricky (1946 -- 2018)

Cards as Weapons [Signed]

 Darien House 1977 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 780.00
42 JAY, Ricky (1946 -- 2018)

Ricky Jay. On the Stem

 New York 2003 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 360.00
43 JAY, Ricky (1946 -- 2018)

'Twixt Two Worlds

 New York 2007 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 270.00
44 KALANAG (Helmut Schreiber, 1903 -- 1963)

Mysterious Kalanag & Gloria

 Circa 1950s USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 270.00
45 KIO, Igor (1944 -- 2006)

Four Kio Posters

 Russia mid-20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 780.00
46 LE GRAND DAVID

Le Grand David and His Magic Company / Spectacular

 Beverly, Mass. ca. 1979 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 180.00
47 LE GRAND DAVID

Collection of over 30 Le Grand David Posters and Related Ephemera

 Circa 1970s -- 2000s USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 270.00
48

LE GRAND DAVID. Collection of over 30 Le Grand David Posters

 Circa 1970s -- 2000s USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 240.00
49

Les Magique Leons

 Netherfield ca. 1925 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 300.00
50 LEVALLIER

Levallier

 Marseille ca. 1940s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 330.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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