SOLD! This just in: Brian Froud’s The World of The Dark Crystal! - 4th Jul 2020

This visually striking book is a conceptual companion book to the original Dark Crystal movie and is filled with insights, sacred geometry, and some simply outstanding illustrations and photographs. We fell in love with it the second we saw it and knew you would too!
It will cost you $38.50NZD and is worth every cent!
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD

First Edition Friday: Anais Nin - 3rd Jul 2020

First Edition Friday Presents: Anais Nin

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Anais Nin was a novelist, passionate eroticist, short story writer who rose to fame with the publication of her personal journals which covered over 40 years of her extraordinary life. She is regarded as one of the leading female writers of the 20th century and a source of inspiration for women challenging conventionally defined gender roles.
We have several first edition copies of her books:

Delta of Venus; Erotica - First Edition in excellent condition 1978: $65.00
In Favour of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays - First Edition 1978: $20.66
The Novel of the Future - First Commonwealth Edition 1969: $27.89
The Four Chambered Heart - First Edition 1959: $35.00

All these books are available online or at our Dunedin Store.

 

This Just In: Occult, Spiritualism, Freemason - 29th Jun 2020

This just in: We have just catalogued a bunch of occult, Freemason, and spiritualism books and they are all online! 
We have quite a large collection of this type of book - here are some of the highlights that where added last weekend. 

The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World by J. R. Francis. 3 vol. set from 1906. $175.00 SOLD!

Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers: The Equinox (Vol.4 No. 1) by Aleister Crowley, Madam Blavatsky and co.  $245.00

Glimpses of Masonic History by C. W. Leadbeater. 1926. $85.00

And that is just the beginning! 
All these books and more are available on our website www. hardtofind.co.nz or in our stores. 

First Edition Friday: Winnie the Pooh! - 26th Jun 2020

First Edition Friday Presents: ‘Winnie the Pooh’ by A.A Milne!
 
"So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing."
 
A beautiful and well-loved first edition of the immortal Winnie the Pooh! I am not sure is there is a more sustained or beloved character in the history of children’s literature.
You can pick up this copy from our website or in store at 20 Dowling St, Dunedin Central.
It is NZ$950.00 and is a MUST for any A.A Milne collector, or devotee in general.

We also have several other early editions that won't break the bank as much, as well as other earky Milne classics. There is something about a first edition however that makes it worth the expense.
 

BOTH DUNEDIN & AUCKLAND STORES ARE OPEN! - 13th May 2020

Welcome back everyone.
We have thousands of new books (in store & on-line) and look forward to seeing your smiling faces again soon! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us in these unprecedented times.
Dunedin winter shop hours are Wed-Sat, 10.45am to 5.15pm.
Stay well, and read books!

 

Thought of the day... or era really - 29th Apr 2020

If you're a reader then Secondhand Bookshops will get you through times of no Money better than Money will get you through times of no Secondhand Bookshops.
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SOLD! First Edition Friday Presents: Love in the Time off Cholera - 20th Mar 2020

First Edition Friday Presents: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
 
This is one of those books that simply have to be read… and now seems like as good a time as any!
Set in the Caribbean at the turn of the 20^th Century, it tells the story of two people desperately and completely in love. It speaks of their passion, their turmoil and the way that love often manifests itself as an emotion and physical disease…
 
This first edition is only $55.00 and is available online or in store.

First Edition Friday the 13th: Stephen King! - 13th Mar 2020

First Edition Friday The 13th Presents: STEPHEN KING!!!

We thought we should get a little spooky today here at Hard to Find and showcase some of our First Edition copies of Stephen King!
Here see some wonderful first editions under $100NZD.
These books are available online and instore!

If you want to see more, including videos of signed and numbered editions please take a gander at at our Instagram @hardtofindbooksdunedin and Facebook @hardtofinddunedin