Potter & Potter's Retail Store. Shop now for vintage magic, gambling, circus, and oddities. Our inventory includes used, rare, and out-of-print books, along with vintage magic posters, photographs, magic tricks, playing cards, and more.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022 • Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Voyage. 

AUGUST 20, 2022 • Over 700 vintage posters in a broad range of categories are featured in our summer sale, including American and international travel, advertising, pictorial maps, Art Nouveau, European design, art exhibition, classic sci-fi movie posters, theater, magic, and others.

JULY 21, 2022 • Our first Online–Only book sale of the year will feature an array of titles and authors spanning several centuries and categories. Included are several archives of ephemera, large libraries of hard–boiled fiction and modern literature, as well as numerous signed volumes by major authors.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022 • Our September sale features the remarkable circus archives of John & Jan Zweifel. Lifelong circus fans and collectors, the Zweifel's archives were home to tens of thousands of documents, photographs, and relics, including correspondence and memorabilia, as well as circus and wild west costumes, posters, and banners.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 • Our fall sale of magicana features 300 lots including an array of apparatus, ephemera, and collectible books, as well as the magic props and memorabilia from the career of the noted sleight-of-hand magician David Roth.