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
76	Louis Tracy	The Token	New York	1924	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
77	Robert Hale	120 Crime fiction titles	London		AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
78		Maigret's Memoirs		1963	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
79	J S Fletcher	Old Lattimer's Legacy	New York	1929	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
80	Kurt Steel	Madman's Buff	Boston	1941	AUD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
81	Kurt Steel	Dead Of Night	Boston	1940	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
82	Raymond Leslie Goldman	Judge Robinson Murdered!	New York	1937	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
83	P B Maxon	The Waltz of Death		1941	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
84		1. Dr Morelle And The Drummer Girl		1950	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
85	Whitman Chambers	You Can't Get Away	New York	1939	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
86	Charlotte Murray Russell	The Case Of The Topaz Flower	New York	1939	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
87	Charles Parmer	Murder at the Kentucky Derby	New York	1942	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
88	Mabel Seeley	Eleven Came Back	Garden City, NY	1943	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
89	John Stephen Strange	A Picture of the Victim		1940	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
90	Gerald Verner	The Heel of Achilles	London	1945	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
91	Joseph Auslander	Hell In Harness	New York	1929	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
92	Virginia Hanson	Casual Slaughter	New York	1939	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
93		1) The Street of Strange Faces Louis Joseph Vance		1934	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00
94	JS Fletcher	The Mill of Many Windows	New York	1925	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
95	Alistair MacLean	Eight titles	London		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 152.40
96	Dorothy Bowers	1) Deed Without A Name	New York	1940	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 444.50
97		Ten Crime Fiction Novels	(London, 1 in New York)	1980s	AUD 100.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
98	Hugh Austin	It Couldn't Be Murder		1935	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
99		1) The Light and The Dark New York MacMillan		1948	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
100	Kenneth Robeson	Quest of the Spider	New York	1933	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.