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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
26 Bob Cook and

1) Questions of Identity 1987 2) Paper Chase 1989 3) Faceless Mortals 1988 4) Fire And Forget 1990 5) Disorderly Elements 1985 All

London AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
27 Douglas Clark all with a medical theme.

Eleven crime fiction books

London AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
28

Twelve Douglas Clark Crime Fiction Novels. All first editions in dustwrappers,

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
29 June Drummond.

Eleven Titles

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
30 Charles Drummond.

1) A Death At The Bar (2 copies) 1972 2) Death and the Leaping Ladies 1968 3) The Odds On Death 1969 4) Stab In The Back 1970 All

London AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
31 Hugh Tracy 1976 (2 copies) 2) Slippery Ann 3) The Shepherd File

1) Death In Reserve by H C Bailey 1944

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
32

1) The Searchers Of The Dead 1979 2) Unknown Man Seen In Profile 1967 3) The Company Of St George 1972 3) The Delta Knife 1976 4) Nightmares Nest 1982 5) The Bird-Cage 1968 6) The Ghost of Thomas Penry 1977. All first editions, in dustwrappers.

London AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
33 Howard Engel,

1) Murder Sees The Light 1984 2) The Suicide Murders 1984 Both

London AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
34 Daphne du Maurier

The Flight of the Falcon

London 1965 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
35 Edmund McGirr

Seven Crime Fiction Titles written Edmund McGirr

London AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
36 Gregory McDonald,

1) The Buck Passes Flynn 1982 2) Fletch's Fortune 1979 3) Confess Fletch 1977

London AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
37 Theodora Benson

Five Victor Gollancz Crime Fiction titles . 1) Rehearsal For Death

1954 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
38 Nicolas Freeling.

1) Strike Our Where Not Applicable 1967 2)Love in Amsterdam 1962 3) Double-Barrel 1964.

London AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
39 Ruth Dudley Edwards 1990 2) A Case Of Libel

Four Gollancz Crime Fiction and one Gollancz Science Fiction titles. All firsts in Dustwrappers and very good copies. 1) The School Of English Murder

1963 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
40 Rhona Petrie 1) Running Deep 1965 2) Thorne In The Flesh 1971 3) Maclurg Goes West 1968 4) Come Hell And High Water 1970. All first editions,

Four titles

AUD 180.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
41

1) The Month Of The Mangled Models 1977 2) Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, & Epitaphs 1975 3) The Homicidal Colonel 1970.

London AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
42 Bryant Ford.

Show Business: A Mystery Novel

New York 1939 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
43 William. Le Queux

The Crinkled Crown

New York 1929 AUD 180.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
44 Lee Thayer.

Hanging's Too Good

1943 AUD 150.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
45 M M Mannon

Here Lies BLood

Indianapolis, IN, USA 1942 AUD 250.00 - 400.00 AUD 152.40
46 George Gibbs

Out of the Dark

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
47 Mabel L Tyrrell

Thirteen Moons

London 1937 AUD 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
48 Wilson Collison

Glittering Isle

New York 1936 AUD 150.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
49 J S Fletcher

Perilous Crossways.

New York AUD 250.00 - 400.00 AUD 152.40
50 Laurence Dwight Smith.

Death is Thy Neighbor

Philadelphia, AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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    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
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    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
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    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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  • 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
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