Potter and Potter Auctions: Photography, Americana & Historical Memorabilia, 1229, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026
Page Size: 388 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
273

[BLACK POWER]. Black Gold...I am the Black Woman.

New York 1969 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 343.75
274

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Before We Lynch Fred Ahmed Evans A Few Nagging Questions.

Cleveland 1968 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 312.50
275 NEWTON, Huey P.

NEWTON, Huey P. [BLACK PANTHERS]. The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately from Our Communities.

Emeryville, CA ca. 1967. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,375.00
276

[BLACK PANTHERS]. Free Huey Day / May Day. May 1, 1969.

Oakland 1969 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
277 LYONS, Lisa

LYONS, Lisa Black Panther, Peace & Freedom, Free Huey Newton. Congress 7th CD, Seale, State Assembly.

California 1968 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
278

[BLACK PANTHERS]. End the War / Free Bobby & all political prisoners.

Berkeley ca. 1968. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
279

[BLACK PANTHERS]. Group of 3 posters. Including: "An Unarmed People are Slaves or are Subject to Slavery at any Given Moment."

N.p. ca. 1967. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,500.00
280

[ANTI-VIETNAM WAR]. Group of 10 posters.

V.p. ca. 1969. USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 687.50
281

[ANTI-WAR]. Group of pinbacks and buttons.

V.p. 1960s-70s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 218.75
282 CRAWFORD, Ralston , photographer.

CRAWFORD, Ralston , photographer. Eureka Brass Band, Three Musicians on Break.

New Orleans ca. 1960s. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 218.75
283

[MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT]. Group of 3 posters. Including: window card poster for the B.B. King Blues Festival, ...

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 112.50
284

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. Group of 7 antique photographs. Includes: a mug shot of a William Jackson arrested for burglary

ca. 1900 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
285 THURMAN, Wallace

THURMAN, Wallace. The Blacker the Berry. A Novel of Negro Life.

New York 1929 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,000.00
286 HURSTON, Zora Neale.

HURSTON, Zora Neale. Moses Man of the Mountain.

Philadelphia 1939 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
287

Ebony 10th Anniversary. The Ebony Story.

Chicago 1955 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 62.50
288

[EDUCATION]. Triennial catalogue of the officers and students of Oberlin College, for the college year 1854-55.

Oberlin 1854 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 100.00
289

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. NAACP anti-lynching leaflet.

New York 1930s. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,062.50
290

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. March for Freedom Now handbill.

Washington 14 June 1963. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
291

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A first step toward school integration [cover title].

New York 1958 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 218.75
292

[LYNCHING]. Cabinet card photograph of the lynching of Charles Mitchell.

Mansfield, OH 1897 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,500.00
293

[DIRECTORY]. Negro Neighborhood Business and Service Directory.

Chicago 1965 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 187.50
294

Harlem Better Business League / Buy Within the Circle.

Circa 1940s. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
295 JOHNSON, John H. and Ben Burns

JOHNSON, John H. and Ben Burns. The Best of Negro Humor.

Chicago 1945 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 312.50
296

[AFRICAN AMERICAN -- POLITICIANS]. Six campaign posters and flyers for Black politicians.

1950s-70s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
297

[BLACK AMERICANA]. Group of 9 items including song books, fans, and trade cards. Includes: three Wehman Bros. minstrel song and joke booklets

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 375.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.