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
201 Boothby Guy

The Fascination of The King

London 1897 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
202 Packard Frank

The Adventures Of Jimmie Dale

Toronto 1917 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
203 Spillane Mickey

The Long Wait

New York 1951 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
204 Keeler Harry Stephen

The Case of the Canny Killer

New York 1946 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 381.00
205 Cheyney Peter

You Can Call It A Day

Sydney 1949 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
206 Parker Robert B.

The Godwulf Manuscript

Boston, MA 1974 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
207 Parker Robert B.

Ceremony: A Spenser Novel

New York 1982 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
208 Parker Robert B.

A Catskill Eagle

1985 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
209 Parker Robert B.

Crimson Joy

New York 1988 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
210 Howard Tom; Hooker G Dalton

2 Books, including: The Beach-Front Murders

Sydney 1985; 1962 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
211 Blayn Hugo

Except For One Thing

London 1847 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
212 Burke James Lee

Burning Angel

New York 1995 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
213 Raoul

Fortune Spins Auburn

London 1946 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
214 Hunter Alan

Landed Gently

London 1957 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 190.50
215 Simenon

4 Books, including: Violent Ends

London 1954; 1975; 1855; 1972 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
216 Simenon

5 Books, including: Maigret and the Millionaires

1974; 1981; 1960; 1977; 1978 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
217 Eastwood James

2 Books, including: The Chinese Visitor: A Novel of Espionage

London 1965; 1967 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
218 Marr-Johnson Diana

Face Of A Stranger

London 1963 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
219 Greer Andrew

Canton Airlift

London 1957 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
220 Sanders Marion K; Edelstein Mortimer S.

The Bride Laughed Once

New York 1943 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 539.75
221 Duncan W. Murdoch (1909-1975)

The Furtive Men

London 1951 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
222 Spicer Bart

Blues for the Prince

London 1951 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 114.30
223 Ludlum Robert

The Bourne Supremacy; The Bourne Identity

New York 1986; 1980 AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
224 Gearon John

The Velvet Well

London 1947 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
225 Campbell Keith

Listen Lovely

London 1949 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 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.