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
176 Reilly Helen

The Velvet Hand

New York 1953 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
177 Gask Arthur

The Dark Mill Stream

London 1947 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
178 Gask Arthur

The House With The High Wall

London 1948 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
179 Gask Arthur

The Fall Of A Dictator

London 1939 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
180 Gask Arthur

The House on the Island

London 1932 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
181 Rice Laverne

Well Dressed for Murder

New York 1958 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 190.50
182 Campbell Keith

That Was No Lady

London 1952 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
183 Duncan William Murdoch

Death Beckons Quietly

London 1946 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
184 Blizard Marie

The Dark Corner

London 1956 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
185 Horler Sydney

The Secret Hand

London 1954 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
186 Bennett Margot

The Furious Masters

London 1968 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
187 Moorcock Michael

The Opium General and Other Stories

London 1984 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
188 Robertson Colin

Dusky Limelight

London 1950 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
189 Caspary Vera

Bedelia

London 1945 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
190 Hammond; Holt Hazel; Ison Graham; Grayson Ricgard; Cleeves Ann; Grindal Richard

10 Books, including: Dog In The Park

London 1989-1992 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
191 Burtis Thomson

Flying Blood

1932 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
192 Clark Dorothy; King Rufus; Shane Susannah

Poison Speaks Softly; Lethal Lady; Diamonds In The Dumplings

1947; 1946 AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 152.40
193 Marks Percy

Knave of Diamonds

1943 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
194 Goyne Richard

You Can't Kill Shadows

London 1954 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
195 Jacobs T.C.H

Good Knight Sailor

London 1950 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
196 Connelly Michael

Void Moon

Boston; Tucson 2000; 1999 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
197 Edwards Ruth Dudley; Bingham John; Bentley Phyllis; Crispin Edmund; Coney Michael

5 Books, including: The School Of English Murder

1990; 1963; 1974; 1977; 1975 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
198 Gardner Erle Stanley

The Case of the Backward Mule

London 1955 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
199 Hume Fergus

The Opal Serpent

1905 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 215.90
200 Boothby Guy

The Lust Of Hate

London 1898 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 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.