The legendary Hard to Find Bookshop (although it didn't have a name then) began in a garage in John Street, Ponsonby in 1983. In 1984 it moved to a shop in Onehunga (now David Tua's boxing gym), and in 1988 to a mainstreet Onehunga location. At one point it expanded to nine stores in five different cities until Warwick realised empire building wasn't really his passion. Even so, he did open one more shop in 2013... our Dunedin store which also houses our Internet stock. On June 13th 2018 the Onehunga store closed, opening again on 15th June 2018 at our miraculous new location - 2-8 St Benedict's Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland. The Hard to Find Books Online website debuted in 1998 although we had been selling books online since 1997. Now you can find over 140,000 books in our online catalogue, plus our books are listed on overseas websites - with a worldwide following keeping an eye on what we offer. The books instore are not listed online - Auckland has around 90,000 instore, Dunedin around 50,000 (plus Dunedin has direct access to the 140,000 online books). Once we include the books we have awaiting processing our total stock is in the vicinity of 500,000 titles (no-one is counting!!)

Please note: Internet stock is NOT held at our Auckland store

What you can expect to find in our online bookshop is internationally competitive prices for a huge range of books that cover most subjects imaginable: for the collector of rare or valuable books and first editions through to those wanting car manuals (we have the largest second-hand range online in New Zealand - currently over 17,000 titles on New Zealand topics alone and adding more every day.... in fact within New Zealand we have easily the largest range of just about every topic) or an affordable good old-fashioned read, Hard to Find often has books that have faded from public view…and here’s the place where you might find them.

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