Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection Part 9, 112325, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 23, 2025 - November 23, 2025
Page Size: 320 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

1) The Canvass Dagger

1956 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
2

Twenty-Three titles all with dustwrappers illustrated by Sax

AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 762.00
3

Six crime fiction titles all by Mignon G Eberhart

1940s and 1950s AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
4 Judson Philips

The 14th Trump

London 1951 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
5 William Gillette

The Astounding Crime on Torrington Road

New York 1927 AUD 800.00 - 900.00 AUD 539.75
6 Arthur Barker

No Pockets in a Shroud by Horace McCoy

London 1937 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
7 Cecil M Wills

The Clue Of The Lost Hour

London 1949 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
8 Carolyn Wells

In the Onyx Lobby

New York 1920 AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 762.00
9 Mickey Spillane

Five titles

New York 1964 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
10 Edwin De Caire

Death Among The Writers

London 1952 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 762.00
11 Paul Mactyre

Bar Sinister

London 1964 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
12 Seldon Truss

Death Of No Lady

London 1952 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
13 Seldon Truss

In Secret Places

London 1958 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
14 Robert Van Gulik

Four titles

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 476.25
15 Ared White

Seven Tickets to Singapore

Boston 1939 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
16 Marcet and E Haldeman-Julius

Violence

New York 1929 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
17 William Du Bois

The Case of the Frightened Fish

Boston 1940 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 241.30
18 Garland Lord

She Never Grew Old

New York 1942 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
19 Maximilian Foster

Humdrum House?

1924 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
20 James Owen

Deferred Payment

London 1930 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
21 George Harmon Coxe

Eleven titles all written

New York AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 508.00
22 Celia Fremlin

Four titles

1969 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
23 H H Kirst

Eleven novels

London AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
24 Frances and Richard Lockridge

One dozen crime fiction titles

Philadelphia and New York 1940s, 1950s and 1960s AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 444.50
25 Georges Simenon

Nine titles

London 1969 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 571.50
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