FIRST UK EDITION "Gravity's Rainbow"
JUST ARRIVED INSTORE IN AUCKLAND... Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse and more...
JUST ARRIVED INSTORE IN AUCKLAND... Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse and more...
Cormac McCarthy first edition!
MANGA TSUNAMI !!! Just arrived instore in Auckland
First ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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
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)
A new addition to our website stock, held here in Dunedin. A real stunner :)
EDIT: Sold
Robbie Burns
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!