Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection Part 9, 112325, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 23, 2025 - November 23, 2025
Page Size: 320 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Georges Simenon

Monsieur Monde Vanishes

1967 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
227 Anne Rowe

Too Much Poison

New York 1944 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
228 William Newton

Five books written

London AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
229 Frank L Packard

The Sin That Was His

New York 1917 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
230

1) Three-Core Lead

1988 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
231

1. Wake For A Lady London Hammond

1950 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
232

1. Loaded Dice. A Double Thirteen Thriller

London 1949 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
233

1. Not Safe To Be Free

1958 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 444.50
234

Seven Crime Fiction titles

London the 1950s and 1960s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
235

1. Why Pick On Me?

1951 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
236

Six Crime Fiction Titles

London AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
237 John Ashenhurst

The World's Fair Murders

Boston 1933 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
238 Michael Joseph

Twenty titles all published in London

1970s and 1980s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
239 Secker and Warburg

Twenty Crime fiction titles all published in London

1970s and 1980s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
240

Thirty Eight titles all

London 1980s AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
241

2 boxes of Crime Fiction titles

1960s to 1990s AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 952.50
242 Edgar Wallace

White Face

1931 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 349.25
243 Geoffrey Household

The Spanish Cave

1936 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
244

The Linc

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
245 E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Illustrious Prince

Boston 1910 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
246 Caryl Brahms and S J Simon

A Bullet In The Ballet

1938 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
247 Arthur Upfield

Mr. Jelly's Business

Sydney 1937 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
248 J. Keighley Snowden

Jack the Outlaw

London 1926 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
249

1) The Emperor Of America London Cassell

1929 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
250

Fourteen titles

1960s AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 152.40
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