Cormac McCarthy first edition! - 25th Mar 2024

New addition to the website — will be a long time before we see another copy, this is the first UK edition (more colourful jacket) of Cormac McCarthy's first book "The Orchard Keeper". Ex-library, which does detract, but a very scarce title nonetheless

MANGA TSUNAMI !!! Just arrived instore in Auckland - 18th Feb 2024

Good range of Manga just arrived with many runs of titles all in very clean fresh condition and instore at our Auckland shop now. Enjoy!!

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!