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Early DARWIN editions

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

Early editions of Lord of the Rings

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

Recent chat with Jesse Mulligan on RNZ

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A good chat between Warwick & Jess Mulligan of RNZ — famous book collection yarns and a peek behind the scenes :)

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018938179/expert-feature-warwick-jordan-on-looking-after-books

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