Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 12, 53126, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 31, 2026 - May 31, 2026
Page Size: 330 items in 14 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Shute Neville

Trustee From The Toolroom

London 1960 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 152.40
27 Scott Mary; West Joyce

Who Put It There?

London 1965 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
28 Standish Robert

The Big One Got Away

London 1960 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
29 Courage John

We the Unworthy

1944 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
30 Household Geoffrey

The Third Hour

London 1937 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
31 Courtney Margo

3 Books, including: Passions Of The South Seas

Melbourne 1946; 1955; 1953 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
32 MacInnes Helen

Assignment In Brittany

London 1942 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
33 Keeler Harry Stephen

The Steeltown Strangler

London 1950 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
34 Offord Lenore Glen

My True Love Lies

New York 1947 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
35 Dickey James

Deliverance

New York 1970 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 412.75
36 Bell Josephine

9 Books, including: The Alien Bles

London 1964; 1965; 1971; 1973; 1966; 1960; 1963 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
37 Elliott William J

He Met Mr Moon

London 1943 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
38 Howes Royce

The Callao Clue; Death Dupes a Lady

New York 1936; 1937 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 381.00
39 Fletcher J S

5 Books, including: The Wrist Mark

London; New York 1929; 1927; 1926; 1923; 1928 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
40 Simenon Georges

5 Books, including: Maigret And The Hotel Majestic

London; New York 1977; 1983; 1986; 1947; 1976 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
41 Simenon Georges

5 Books, including: Monsieur Monde Vanishes

New York 1967; 1983; 1988; 1978; 1989 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
42 McNeish James; Egleton Clive; Weldon Fay; Markstein George; Royce Kenneth; Payne Laurence; McNab Tom; McIlvanney William; Shaw Howard; Spilsbury Julian

14 Books, including: The Glass Zoo

London 1976; 1955; 1982; 1983; 1974; 1984; 1980; 1988; 1981; 1987; 1989 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
43 Torry Mark; Robertson Helen; Champion Joan

The Silver Hand; The Crystal-Gazers; Incidental Murder

London 1946; 1957 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
44 Cobb Belton

No Last Words

London 1949 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
45 Simenon Georges

3 Books, including: African Trion

1983; 1964 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
46 Finney Jack

I Love Galesburg in the Springtime

London 1965 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
47 Simenon Georges

3 Books, including: The Innocents

1973; 1965; 1992 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
48 Simenon Georges

3 Books, including: The Venice Train

1974; 1980; 1973 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
49 Jakes John; Rurherford Douglas

The Imposter; Meet A Body

New York; London 1959; 1951 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
50 Raymond Rene

More Deadly Than The Male

1946 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000
  • Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: A signed note written by Thomas Alva Edison to an unknown recipient, in which he shares his thoughts on Guglielmo Marconi, regarded as the inventor of the radio. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare 1931 TN Grasslands Steeplechase Book, Gallatin. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: War of 1812 related Broadside, Petersburg Volunteers. $700 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: 2 World War I Posters, “Our Colored Fighters” and “No Slacker”. $800 to $1,000.