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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 12
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 12 | Total Sales (AUD) | 37,922.20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 31, 2026 - May 31, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) | 45,570.00 |
| Sale Number | #53126 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) | 62,060.00 |
| Total Lots | 330 | ||
| Sold Lots | 168.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) | 98,250.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 50.91% | High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) | 131,720.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 162 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 28.79% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christie Agatha | And Then There Were None |
1940 | AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | AUD 1,524.00 |
| 13 | Spark Muriel | The Comforters |
1957 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 1,143.00 |
| 231 | Saunders Hilary St George; Palmer John | The Sleeping Bacchus |
1951 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 952.50 |
| 11 | Brand Christianna | Cat and Mouse; The Three Cornered Halo |
1950; 1957 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 825.50 |
| 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 |
| 158 | Flynn Brian | The Horn |
1934 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 698.50 |
| 133 | Henderson Donald | Goodbye to Murder |
1946 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 603.25 |
| 62 | Flynn Brian | The Doll's Done Dancing |
1954 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 539.75 |
| 117 | Neville Margot | Murder In A Blue Moon |
1948 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 539.75 |
| 220 | Sanders Marion K; Edelstein Mortimer S. | The Bride Laughed Once |
1943 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 539.75 |
| 18 | Capon Paul | Malice Domestic |
1954 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 19 | Capon Paul | Delay Of Doom |
1950 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 32 | MacInnes Helen | Assignment In Brittany |
1942 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 36 | Bell Josephine | 9 Books, including: The Alien Bles |
1964; 1965; 1971; 1973; 1966; 1960; 1963 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 65 | McGuire Paul | There Sits Death |
1933 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 4 | Long Max | The Lava Flow Murders |
1940 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 81 | Nicole Christopher Robin | 11 Books, including: The Eliminator |
1966; 1987; 1968; 1969; 1973; 1971; 1975; 1972; 1978 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 35 | Dickey James | Deliverance |
1970 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 16 | Spark Muriel | The Mandelbaum Gate; The Driver's Seat |
1965; 1970 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 34 | Offord Lenore Glen | My True Love Lies |
1947 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 38 | Howes Royce | The Callao Clue; Death Dupes a Lady |
1936; 1937 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 204 | Keeler Harry Stephen | The Case of the Canny Killer |
1946 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 235 | Alington Cyril | Mr Evans, A Cricketo-Detective Story |
1922 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 221 | Duncan W. Murdoch (1909-1975) | The Furtive Men |
1951 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 253 | Parker Robert B | 3 Books, including: The Judas Goat |
1978; 1974; 1976 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 381.00 |
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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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. -
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Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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 2ndCase 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 2ndCase 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 2ndCase 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.