First ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - 20th Jan 2024

New addition to our website: the very first English translation of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by Vizetelly & Co. 1886 — price comensurate with condition and rarity!

Last recorded sale in March 2017 for NZ$25,900: here's a Guardian article about finding it in a box for £14!
www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/crime-and-punishment-dostoevsky-auction

The Vizetelly's are quite interesting in and of themselves: Vizetelly elder also oversaw the first English translation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and was fined for the obscenity of publishing Zola in English in 1888 and then again in 1889 — for which he was imprisioned for 3 months and bankrupt by 1890!

http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_genre.php?gid=71

Clearly a good eye for literature — just like yourself, if you find yourself browsing our Hard to Find Books' website :P

Chat with RNZ's Mark Leishman - 19th Jan 2024

A chat with RNZ's Mark Leishman about the goings on at the bookshop (Feb 2024)

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018927346/hard-to-find-books-doing-a-roaring-trade 

Stunning Book of the Dead (1890) - 3rd Jan 2024

Enormous elephant folio facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum — the Egyptian Book of the Dead

A new addition to our website stock, held here in Dunedin. A real stunner :)

EDIT: Sold 

Robbie Burns - 1st Jan 2024

We have your Burns night reading sorted! A fine selection of Robert Burns available at our Dunedin store and on our website for those celebrating the poet's birthday this Thursday!

JUST ARRIVED 16 November in our Auckland Store - 16th Nov 2023

Ranginui Walker and many others just arrived. Grab 'em quick :-)

Just Arrived Instore in Auckland 09/11/23 - 9th Nov 2023

A small selection of books just arrived for sale at our Auckland shop... worth a visit?

LATEST ARRIVALS AT OUR AUCKLAND STORE - 5th Nov 2023

A few examples of recent arrivals to the store.... there may be a treasure or two for you...?

Calling All Conjurers - 12th Oct 2023

A selection of MAGIC books just added to our online inventory

Some rare titles, some unusual titles (see this Wellington magic shop catalogue: anyone ever frequent Stewart's Studio of Magic on Manners Street? Delightful ephemera)

Cards, rope, silk, coin, conjuring with or without apparatus, Pallbearers Review collections, titles by/about George G. Kaplan, Dai Vernon, Jim Sisti, Bruce Cervon, Jon Raucherbaumer, John A. Bannon and many other classics  — get in while they're going friends....