DOCTOR WHO - 4th Feb 2025

Usually have plenty of DOCTOR WHO novelisation paperbacks, recently have had an additional influx

OPEN USUAL HOURS WAITANGI DAY - 4th Feb 2025

Both Auckland & Dunedin shops

Manga - 8th Jan 2025

New to website, popular manga series incl. runs of BERSERK and HUNTER x HUNTER

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