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Auction Name: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection Part 10
Auction Date: 12/21/2025 - 12/21/2025
Sale Number: #A170
Total Lots: 125
Sold Lots: 79.0
Lots Sold: 63.20%
Unsold Lots: 46

Total Sales (AUD): 23,266.40
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 27,020.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 36,150.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 45,170.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 58,930.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 39.48%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
63	ROY BRIDGES 1939	This House Is Haunted by Roy Bridges	1939 (?)	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,778.00
30	HELEN SIMPSON	Re-Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson .	1932	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,524.00
42	S H COURTIER SIGNED	Now Seek My Bones by S H Courtier	1957	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 952.50
15	GUY BOOTHBY	Doctor Nikola by Guy Boothby Illustrated by Stanley L Wood.	1896	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
71	GAVIN HOLT	Garlands For Sylvia by Gavin Holt	1958	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 698.50
111	J M SPENDER	Seven Days For Hanging by J M Spender.	1958	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 635.00
28	MARK CORRIGAN SIGNED BY AUTHOR	Sweet And Deadly by Mark Corrigan	1953	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 539.75
5	S H COURTIER	Let The Man Die by S H Courtier.	1961	AUD 800.00 - 900.00	AUD 508.00
45	MARGOT NEVILLE	Murder in Rockwater by Margot Neville	No date but 1945	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 508.00
34	CHARLOTTE JAY 1951	The Knife Is Feminine.	1951	AUD 800.00 - 900.00	AUD 508.00
72	GAVIN HOLT	Tonight Is For Death by Gavin Holt	1952	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 444.50
35	ALFRED E CLARKE	Tommy The Growler by Alfred E Clarke .	1929	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 444.50
61	LUNA ROTHWELL 1964	Murder Is Lonely by Una Rothwell.	1964	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
41	S H COURTIER SIGNED	Murder's Burning by S H Courtier	1967	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 381.00
39	S H COURTIER	Come Back To Murder by S H Courtier	1957	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
81	STEPHEN MADDOCK	Exit Only by Stephen Maddock	1947	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 349.25
47	MARGOT NEVILLE	My Bad Boy by Margot Neville	1964	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
40	S H COURTIER	Who Dies For Me? by S H Courtier	1962	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
18	S H COURTIER 1958	A Shroud For Unlac by S H Courtier	1958	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
7	FERGUS HUME	The Pink Shop by Fergus Hume	1911	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50

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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.