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Rubaiyat Gallery

1739530800

A gallery of fine illustrated Rubaiyats currently in stock: Rene Bull, Adelaide Hanscom, Ronald Balfour, Willy Pogany, Arthur Szyk (SOLD). We also have copies in te reo Maori, translated by Pei Te Hurinui Jones

Farewell Brian Turner

1738753200

Great poet of Otago nature & environmentalist, some tributes to the late Brian Turner at the below:

Reading Room, Philip Temple

The Spinoff

Otago Daily Times

DOCTOR WHO

1738580400

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

Manga

1736247600

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

Farewell Brian Turner

1732705200

Great poet of Otago nature & environmentalist, some tributes to the late Brian Turner at the below:

Reading Room, Philip Temple

The Spinoff

Otago Daily Times

Early DARWIN editions

1729854000

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

Early editions of Lord of the Rings

1728212400

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

1726056000

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

1723723200

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