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
76 Butler Gwendoline

2 Books, including: A Coffin For Pandora

London 1973; 1974 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
77 Wolff William Almon

The Trial of Mary Dugan

New York 1928 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 177.80
78 Wiles; Napier Mary

4 Books, including: Skin Deep

London 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
79 Trevor Elleston

2 Books, including: The Penthouse

London 1983; 1981 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
80 Williamson Tony; Rutherford Douglas; Rayner William; Ross Sheila

4 Books, including: Technicians of Death

London 1978; 1975; 1976; 1973 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
81 Nicole Christopher Robin

11 Books, including: The Eliminator

London 1966; 1987; 1968; 1969; 1973; 1971; 1975; 1972; 1978 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 476.25
82 Parker Robert B

8 Books, including: Sudden Mischief

New York 1998; 1990; 1997; 1996; 1995; 1989; 1991; 2000 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
83 Nabb Magdalen

6 Books, including: The Marshal and the Murderer

London 1987; 1988; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1985 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
84 Morgan Lorna Nicholl

The Death Box

1946 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
85 Raskin Ellen

The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues

London 1975 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
86 Sneider Vern

A Pail Of Oysters

London 1954 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
87 Fox James M

The Wheel is Fixed

London 1952 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
88 Dundas Lawrence

A Spider at the Elvira

London 1949 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
89 Aird Catherine

7 Books, including: A Dead Liberty

London 1986; 1970; 1980; 1979; 1984; 1973 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
90 Ramsay Diana

5 Books, including: Four Steps To Death

1989; 1977; 1973; 1972; 1975 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
91 Cleary Jon

N Books, including: The Phoenix Tree

1984; 1988; 1999; 1981; 1998; 1992; 1994; 1995; 1987; 2000; 1993 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 762.00
92 Llewellyn Richard; Moody Susan; Newman; Langley Bob; Brand Christianna

N Books, including: White Horse To Banbury Cross

1970; 1988; 1987; 1983; 1979; 1974 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
93 Marric J J; Brown Michael; Evans Ian; Fantoni Barry

N Books, including: Gideon's Fear

1990; 1967; 1989; 1985; 1982; 1971; 1972; 1968 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
94 Boyd Eunice Mays

Murder Breaks Trail

New York 1943 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 317.50
95 Berckman Evelyn

The Strange Bedfellow

London 1956 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
96 Powell Lester

Shadow Play

London 1949 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
97 Makin W J

Red Sea Nights

London 1937 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 76.20
98 Cosgrave Patrick; Charlton John; Cory Desmond; Benton Kenneth

N Books, including: Cheyey's Law

London 1977; 1976; 1975; 1977; 1975 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
99 Tyrrell Mabel L

The Thief

London 1953 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
100 Ball Eustace Hale

The Scarlet Fox

New York 1927 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • 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.