Open today, usual hours - 29th Nov 2024

Both shops OPEN EVERYDAY except Christmas Day itself, usual hours (Boxing Day, New Year's Day, NYD+1)

Delays to CANADA over (?) - 27th Nov 2024

Canadian Post strike is ended, or paused, either way, we're sending packages again :P

Early DARWIN editions - 26th Oct 2024

Recent additions to website, early editions of the various works of Charles Darwin (check them out here)

Early editions of Lord of the Rings - 7th Oct 2024

New to website: early impressions of LOTR, in the original jackets. Also depicted, the India paper edition: given the price, maybe don't read in the bath, but the most "user friendly" copy: thin paper like a Bible, so you can have all the books in one slim volume, sought after

Details here:
Lord of the Rings

URSULA LE GUIN 1st ED's - 12th Sep 2024

Ah, whenever we are listing a standard paperback "reading copy" of one of Ursula's books, you lot are snapping it up immediately the same day... Makes us look like we never have any of her books... These ones should stick around for a smidge longer though, given the price tags!

Check 'em out here (all online listings are physically held in our DUNEDIN store)

A Practical Treatise on the Art of Illuminating - 16th Aug 2024

New to the website, learn to illuminate your own manuscripts with the Queen's own illuminator, circa 1873

https://www.hardtofind.co.nz/book/2s11-41/The-Art-of-Pyrotechny-being-Comprehensive-and-Practical-Instructions-for-the-Manufacture-of-Fireworks-specially-designed-for-the-Use-of-Amateurs

 

1885 "rocket making appartus" from THE ART OF PYROTECHNY - 15th Aug 2024

Making fireworks the 19th century way, "Specially Designed for Use of Amatuers" so what could go wrong — also, some great Victorian advertisments at rear. Rockets, roman candles, Bengal fires, crackers, serpents, stars and "the mortars from which they are fired"

https://www.hardtofind.co.nz/book/2s11-41/The-Art-of-Pyrotechny-being-Comprehensive-and-Practical-Instructions-for-the-Manufacture-of-Fireworks-specially-designed-for-the-Use-of-Amateurs



 

Byrne's EUCLID - 23rd Jun 2024

A lovely Taschen reprint of Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition of Euclid — a very interesting moment in the history of graphic design and science communication, Byrne vibrantly coloured all the lines and angles etc. in Euclid's familiar dusty old axioms, making this material both unexpectedly visually engaging and pedagogically effective.

Link to our listing (23.06.24)