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
151 Russell Charlotte Murray

The Case Of The Topaz Flower

New York 1939 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
152 Cross John Keir

The White Magic

London 1947 AUD 50.00 - 60.00 AUD 63.50
153 Black Mansell

Sinister Cargo

London 1951 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
154 Fores John

Candidates For Glory

1968 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
155

2 Books, including: Strange Sanctuary

1949; 1950 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
156 Household Geoffrey

The Terror of Villadonga

London 1936 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
157 Dekobra Maurice

Serenade to the Hangman

London 1940s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
158 Flynn Brian

The Horn

London 1934 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 698.50
159 Stegner Wallace

A Shooting Star

London 1961 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
160 Scott Mansfield; Thomas A E

2 Books, including: The Spider's Web

New York 1929; 1924 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
161 Wittman George; Roberts Peter; Marshall Lovat; Lewis Roy Harley; Mariner David; Midgley John; Norwood Victor G C; Peel Colin D; Powell John D; Lambot Isobel

10 Books, including: A Matter Of Intelligence

London 1975; 1989; 1968; 1984; 1979; 1983; 1965; 1984; 1985; 1966 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
162 Sanders Bruce; Traill Peter; Rowland John; Tack Alfred

5 Books, including: Tawny Menace

1948; 1947; 1950; 1949 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
163 Peters Ludovic; Nettell Richard; Lymington John; Hawton Hector; Ainsworth Harriet; Palmer John; Lynn Margaret; Hackforth-Jones Gilbert; Coles Manning

10 Books, including: The Killing Game

1969; 1967; 1959; 1949; 1955; 1967; 1951 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
164 Parker Robert B

18 Robert B Parker Crime Fiction titles

N/A AUD 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
165 Mavity Nancy Barr; Booth Charles; Barry Jerome

5 Books, including: The Fate of Jane McKenzie

New York 1933; 1935; 1941; 1932; 1930 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
166 Williams Valentine

Mr. Ramosi

Boston 1926 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
167 Cooper Charles

The Turkish Spy

London 1935 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
168 Keneally Thomas

The Place at Whitton

London 1964 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
169 Walling R A J

3 Books, including: The Corpse In The Crimson Slippers

London 1936; 1932 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
170 Wallace Edgar

5 Books, including: The Calendar

London 1930; 1932 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
171 Robeson Kenneth

Quest of the Spider

New York 1933 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
172 Lynch Lawrence

The Diamond Coterie

Chicago 1884 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
173 Dixon Malcolm W

3 Books, including: I Spy, You Die

1984; 1986 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
174 Boothby Guy

My Strangest Case; The Red Rat's Daughter

London; New York; Melbourne 1902; 1899 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
175 Wallace Edgar

The Ringer Returns; The Stretelli Case And Other Mystery Stories

New York; Cleveland 1931; 1930 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 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.