Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce a 336-lot sale celebrating all things author Arthur Conan Doyle (British, 1859-1930) to be held on Thursday, Feb. 15. This event will be held live at Potter & Potters gallery, located at 5001 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago, Ill. It will also be live streamed on the companys website at www.potterauctions.com. Phone and absentee bids are welcome. The auction house, founded in 2007, specializes in paper Americana, vintage advertising, rare books, playing cards, posters, fine prints, vintage toys, and magicana - antiques and collectibles related to magic and magicians. British author Doyle created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887, and the many short stories he wrote with the famous character remain popular today in the field of crime fiction. The early books are very collectible. The expected top lot is Arthur Conan Doyles autographed manuscript of the novel Uncle Bernac, estimated at $30,000-$40,000. This complete manuscript as published in the original serialization appears with the provisional title Boulogne. A Memory of the Empire. It was written in Egypt, London, and elsewhere in the summer of 1896. The draft includes its original pagination throughout, holograph corrections, cancellations, and alterations. It is housed in a folding cloth chemise and slipcase and presented in a custom folding box detailed with brass plaque and latches. This remarkable document is being sold with the complete three-part American serialization of Uncle Bernac as it appeared in The Cosmopolitan in January through March 1897 and a copy of the first English edition of Uncle Bernac. An important copy of Doyles The Lost World is estimated at $15,000-$18,000. It was published in London by Henry Frowde in 1914. The first English edition, second issue, large paper edition includes its rare original dust jacket which is decorated with dinosaur footprints similar to those that appear on the covers. It features 13 mounted plates including a portrait frontispiece. This is the first time ever that a copy of this book with its original dust jacket has appeared at auction. The Lost World is considered the authors most celebrated work outside the Sherlock Holmes canon. A lobby card for the movie production of The Lost World is estimated at $5,000-$10,000. This 11-by-14 inch sign advertises the film adapted from Doyles novel of the same name and produced by First National Pictures. It was directed by Harry O. Hoyt. This film featured the pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis OBrien, becoming the first full length movie to include model animation as the primary special effect. OBrien would go on to use these special effects in the 1933 film King Kong. This title card is possibly the only known example extant. As soon as part one of this sale concluded in2023, bidders and institutions asked when would the second sale take place. One year later, we are happy to announce the next chapter of Sherlock with this robust collection of books and Doyle related material, this time including the Roy Pilot collection, according to Chris Brink, director of Fine Books and Manuscripts at Potter & Potter Auctions. To learn more, visit www.potterandpotterauctions.