Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 7, A147, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 01, 2025 - June 01, 2025
Page Size: 361 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Gerard Fairlie

Birds of Prey

London 1932 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
177 W. Somerset Maugham

Cosmopolitans, Very Short Stories

London 1936 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
178 Lawrence G. Blochman.

See You at the Morgue

New York 1941 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
179 E. Phillips Oppenheim

Up the Ladder of Gold

Boston 1931 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
180 Roger Delancey

Murder Below Wall Street

New York. London. 1934 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
181 A G Macdonell

The Crew of the Anaconda

London 1940 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
182 Martin Armstrong

The Butterfly

London 1941 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
183 A G MacDonnell

The Spanish Pistol and Other Stories

1939 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
184 Cortland Fitzsimmons.

Sudden Silence: The Case of the Murdered Band-Leader

1938 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 101.60
185 Sefton Kyle.

The Life He Stole

London 1934 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
186 Sandberg Shriber

The Dark Aebor

New York 1940 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
187 John Russell

Far Wandering Men

New York 1929 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
188 Thomas Cobb

The Crime Without a Clue

London 1929 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
189 Victor MacClure

The Clue of the Dead Goldfish

London 1933 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
190 Mrs Barre Goldie.

The Hand of the Waverleys

London No date but 1928 AUD 300.00 - 350.00 AUD 190.50
191

The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, who liv'd five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris:

AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
192 Adele Seifert

Shadows Tonight

New York 1939 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
193 Mervyn Lamb.

On Hazardous Service

Edburgh 1921 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
194 Emma Page

1) A Violent End 1988 2) In Loving Memory 1970 3) A Fortnight By The Sea 1973 4) Element of Chance 1975.

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
195 Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg

On the Run

1943 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
196 Elmore Leonard

Killshot

New York 1989 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
197 Martin Russell

Seven titles all written

London 1974 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
198

Twenty Crime fiction titles all

London 1970s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
199

Twenty titles all

London 1970s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
200

Ten Ellis Peters Titles. See photograph for list of titles. All

London 1970s AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 635.00
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