Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 6 , 31625, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 16, 2025 - March 16, 2025

Page Size: 459 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Daphne Du Maurier	The Apple Tree A Short Novel and Some Stories	London	1952	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
2	Daphne du Maurier	The Scapegoat	London	1957	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
3	Daphne Du Maurier	The Breaking Point. Eight Stories.		1959	AUD 350.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
4	Edmund Crispin pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery	The Long Divorce	London	1951	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
5		1) Death At Lords 1952 2) The Spy In The Brown Derby 1945 3) Second Front - First Spy 1944. 4) The Flying Saucer 1948	London		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
6	Julian Symons	The Immaterial Murder Case	London	1945	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
7	Lionel Davidson	The Rose of Tibet	London	1962	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
8		1) Secrets Can't Be Kept 19444 2) Triple Quest 1955 3) Dark Is The Clue 1955 4) There's A Reason For Everything 1945 5) It Might Lead Anywhere 1946.	London		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
9	the Author 5) The Third Skin 1954 6) I Love I Kill 1968 7) Night's Black Agent 1961 . Signed	1) The Double Agent 1966 2) Murder Plan Six 1958 3) The Paton Street Case 1955 4)A Fragment of Fear 1965 Signed			AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
10	Michael Innes.	Stop Press	London	1939	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 762.00
11		1) A Private View 1952 2) Old Hall New Hall 1956 3) The Journeying Boy 1949 4)The Long Farewell 1958 5) A Family Affair 1969.	London		AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
12		1) A Change of Heir 1966 2) Hare Sitting Up 1959 3) Silence Observed 1961 4) The Ampersand Papers 1978 5) The Bloody Wood 1966..			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
13		1) Death At The Chase 1970 2) Carson's Conspiracy 1984 3) An Awkward Lie 1971 4) A Family Affair 1969 5)A Connoisseur's Case 1962.	London		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
14		1) There Came Both Mist And Snow 1940 2) Operation Pax 1951 3) Christmas At Candleshoe 1953 4) Going It Alone 1980 5) What Happened At Hazlewood 1946. 6) Shelks and Adders 1982 All first editions in dustwrappers. The first has a wrapper with pieces missin			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
15		1) The Gay Phoenix 1976 2) Money From Holme 1964 3) The man From The Sea 1955 (Some foxing) 4) The Mysterious Commision 1974 5) The New Sonia Wayward 1960 6) The Open House 1972. All first editions in very good dustwrappers			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
16		1) The Guardians 1955 2) The Man Who Won The Pools 1961 3) Mark Lambert's Supper 1954 . 4) The Man Who Wrote Detective Stories 1959. . Dustwrapper chipped. All first editions in good dustwrappers and	London		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
17	Patrick Quentin. First editions in dustwrappers. Very good copies	1) Run To Death 1948 2) Puzzle For Puppets 1944 3) The Shepherds File All			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
18		1) The Blue Movie Murders 1973 2) Four Men Called John 976.	London		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
19		1) Drunkard's End 1960 2) Blind Man's Garden 1970 (2 copies) 3) Cease Upon The Midnight 1964 Some foxing 4) Waiting For Oliver 1962 Priceclipped D/W 5) Don't Play With The Rough Boys 1963 Priceclipped D/W			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
20	Celia Fremlin. All crime fiction books	Ten Titles written			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
21	Simon Brett all signed on the title page. 1) A Comedian Dies 1979 2) Dead Giveaway 1985 3) So Much Blood1976 4) A Series of Murders 1989 5) The Dead Side Of The Mike 1980. All first editions, very good copies in dustwrappers and	Six Books	London		AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
22	Simon Brett. All	Seven books	London		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
23	V C Clinton-Baddeley.	Seven titles	London		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
24	John Dunning	Deadline	London	1982	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
25	W J Burley. First editions.	1) To Kill A Cat 1970 2) The Schoolmaster 1977 3) Wycliffe And The Winsor Blue 1987 All	London		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold

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Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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