Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection Part 4, 121524, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 15, 2024 - December 15, 2024
Page Size: 360 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Frederic Kummer

The Scarecrow Murders

New York 1938 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
102 Mary Collins

The Fog Comes

1941 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
103 Mignon Eberhart

With This Ring

New York 1941 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
104 Walter C. Brown

Laughing Death

Philadelphia 1932 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
105 Joseph Gollomb

The Portrait Invisible

New York 1928 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
106 Cortland Fitzsimmons

Red Rhapsody

NY 1933 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
107 Elizabeth Jordan.

After The Verdict

New York 1939 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 88.90
108 Eden Phillpotts.

Bred in the Bone

New York 1933 AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 38.10
109 Frederic F Van de Water

Hurry Feet

New York 1928 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
110 Richard Essex

Lessinger Laughs Last.

London 1938 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
111 Elizabeth Jordan.

The Devil And The Deep Sea A Novel

New York 1929 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
112 George Jean Nathan,.

Monks Are Monks:; A Diagnostic Scherzo

New York 1929 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
113 Frank A Clement

No End Of A Rogue

London 1936 AUD 200.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 127.00
114 Octavus Roy Cohen.

The Townsend Murder Mystery

New York 1933 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
115 E Phillips Oppenheim

The Glenlitten Murder

Boston 1929 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
116 Clayton Rawson

Death From A Top Hat

New York 1938 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,397.00
117 Jerome Odlum

The Morgue is Always Open

New York 1944 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
118 Eleanor Blake

Death Down East

New York 1940 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
119 Lilian Bennet-Thompson and George Hubbard

Fruit Of Folly

New York 1934 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 635.00
120 Marie Belloc Lowndes

The Terriford Mystery

London No date but 1924 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
121 Marie Belloc Lowndes ?

What Really Happened

New York 1926 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
122 Sue MacVeigh

Murder Under Construction

USA 1939 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
123 Jacques Pendower.

Four titles by Jacques Pendower. 1) Anxious Lady. 1960. 2) Double Diamond. 1959. 3) The Widow from Spain. 1961. 4) Death on the Moor.

in London. AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 349.25
124 George Harmon Coxe

Fourteen titles

London AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
125 TCH (Thomas Curtis Hicks) Jacobs is a pseudonym of Jacques Pendower.

Six books T.C.H. Jacobs (Jacques Pendower) .

London. AUD 250.00 - 400.00 AUD 285.75
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
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