![]() ![]() The albums include 265 albumen prints mounted on heavy stock many are captioned with most signed by the photographer. Lot #185, a pair of photograph albums documenting a gold miner’s experience during the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush, is estimated at $12,000-15,000.The images capture intimate views of Asian street life and the daily scenes of the French countryside. Maier was recognized by The New York Times as “one of America’s more insightful street photographers.” The album consists of 22 Kodacolor prints arranged in a cloth Badger Squeegee Album. Lot #14, Vivian Maier's (American, 1926–2009) album of her 1959 trip to France and Southeast Asia, is estimated at $20,000-30,000.Important late 20th and early 21st century photo collections take the top slots in this premier sale. ![]() ![]() All items are available for in-person preview, by appointment only. Bidding will take place through Potter & Potter's website, at Phone and absentee bids are also welcome. Belmont Avenue in Chicago, at 77 to reserve seats. Please call the auction house, located at 5001 W. The event will be held online and live streamed, with a limited number of bidders physically allowed in the gallery as determined by current Illinois public health attendance guidelines. Chicago - Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this 765 lot sale to be held on Saturday, November 20th starting at 10am. ![]()
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Last year, Lee worked with artists Pia Guerra, Stefano Martino, and Kelly Yates on Doctor Who: The Forgotten, the best-selling six-issue mini-series from IDW Publishing that featured the tenth Doctor, portrayed on television by David Tennant, in an adventure that spanned all ten of his lives. ![]() ![]() Loved this so much that I was mad I had to go to sleep and stop reading it!!!! Quinton and Oakley have my whole heart and I have no complaints. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.* *Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.īut athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.īesides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right? 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Oppressive, mysterious, and ubiquitous, the KGB penetrated and controlled every aspect of Soviet life. The direct successor of Stalin's spy network, it combined the roles of foreign- and domestic-intelligence gathering, internal security enforcement, and state police. The KGBthe Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, or committee of state securitywas the most complex and far-reaching intelligence agency ever created. The Gordievskys lived amid the spy fraternity in a designated apartment block, ate special food reserved for officers, and spent their free time socializing with other spy families. ![]() His father worked for the intelligence service all his life, and wore his KGB uniform every day, including weekends. 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The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry-freed by the Emancipation Proclamation-seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. ![]() In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning "miraculous debut" ( Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever ![]() Item #304095 ISBN: 9780316461245Īn Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah's Book Club Pick Harris, Nathan The Sweetness of Water (Oprah's Book Club) ![]() ![]() ![]() This survey aims to provide both a research and a teaching resource, by giving useful suggestions for secondary reading directly related to Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, together with discussion of the philosophical and scholarly issues raised by that literature and references to contemporary works on the same themes.
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