Hard To Find Books News Feed

Dungeons & Dragons

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A goodly amount of time always passes between us getting any of these, so act accordingly :P

FIRST UK EDITION "Gravity's Rainbow"

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From our Dunedin store

JUST ARRIVED INSTORE IN AUCKLAND... Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse and more...

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JUST ARRIVED INSTORE IN AUCKLAND... Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse and more...

Cormac McCarthy first edition!

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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!