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Auction Info

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.