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

Auction Details

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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