Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 6 , 31625, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 16, 2025 - March 16, 2025
Page Size: 459 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Daphne Du Maurier

The Apple Tree A Short Novel and Some Stories

London 1952 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
2 Daphne du Maurier

The Scapegoat

London 1957 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
3 Daphne Du Maurier

The Breaking Point. Eight Stories.

1959 AUD 350.00 - 400.00 Unknown
4 Edmund Crispin pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery

The Long Divorce

London 1951 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
5

1) Death At Lords 1952 2) The Spy In The Brown Derby 1945 3) Second Front - First Spy 1944. 4) The Flying Saucer 1948

London AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
6 Julian Symons

The Immaterial Murder Case

London 1945 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
7 Lionel Davidson

The Rose of Tibet

London 1962 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
8

1) Secrets Can't Be Kept 19444 2) Triple Quest 1955 3) Dark Is The Clue 1955 4) There's A Reason For Everything 1945 5) It Might Lead Anywhere 1946.

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
9 the Author 5) The Third Skin 1954 6) I Love I Kill 1968 7) Night's Black Agent 1961 . Signed

1) The Double Agent 1966 2) Murder Plan Six 1958 3) The Paton Street Case 1955 4)A Fragment of Fear 1965 Signed

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
10 Michael Innes.

Stop Press

London 1939 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
11

1) A Private View 1952 2) Old Hall New Hall 1956 3) The Journeying Boy 1949 4)The Long Farewell 1958 5) A Family Affair 1969.

London AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
12

1) A Change of Heir 1966 2) Hare Sitting Up 1959 3) Silence Observed 1961 4) The Ampersand Papers 1978 5) The Bloody Wood 1966..

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
13

1) Death At The Chase 1970 2) Carson's Conspiracy 1984 3) An Awkward Lie 1971 4) A Family Affair 1969 5)A Connoisseur's Case 1962.

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
14

1) There Came Both Mist And Snow 1940 2) Operation Pax 1951 3) Christmas At Candleshoe 1953 4) Going It Alone 1980 5) What Happened At Hazlewood 1946. 6) Shelks and Adders 1982 All first editions in dustwrappers. The first has a wrapper with pieces missin

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
15

1) The Gay Phoenix 1976 2) Money From Holme 1964 3) The man From The Sea 1955 (Some foxing) 4) The Mysterious Commision 1974 5) The New Sonia Wayward 1960 6) The Open House 1972. All first editions in very good dustwrappers

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
16

1) The Guardians 1955 2) The Man Who Won The Pools 1961 3) Mark Lambert's Supper 1954 . 4) The Man Who Wrote Detective Stories 1959. . Dustwrapper chipped. All first editions in good dustwrappers and

London AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
17 Patrick Quentin. First editions in dustwrappers. Very good copies

1) Run To Death 1948 2) Puzzle For Puppets 1944 3) The Shepherds File All

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
18

1) The Blue Movie Murders 1973 2) Four Men Called John 976.

London AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
19

1) Drunkard's End 1960 2) Blind Man's Garden 1970 (2 copies) 3) Cease Upon The Midnight 1964 Some foxing 4) Waiting For Oliver 1962 Priceclipped D/W 5) Don't Play With The Rough Boys 1963 Priceclipped D/W

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
20 Celia Fremlin. All crime fiction books

Ten Titles written

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
21 Simon Brett all signed on the title page. 1) A Comedian Dies 1979 2) Dead Giveaway 1985 3) So Much Blood1976 4) A Series of Murders 1989 5) The Dead Side Of The Mike 1980. All first editions, very good copies in dustwrappers and

Six Books

London AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Unknown
22 Simon Brett. All

Seven books

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
23 V C Clinton-Baddeley.

Seven titles

London AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
24 John Dunning

Deadline

London 1982 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 Unknown
25 W J Burley. First editions.

1) To Kill A Cat 1970 2) The Schoolmaster 1977 3) Wycliffe And The Winsor Blue 1987 All

London AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown