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 historic mainstreet Onehunga location – formerly the Sai Louie Fruit & Veg shop from 1928-1988. We stayed for 35 years. At one point the business expanded to nine stores in five different cities until Warwick realised empire building wasn’t really his passion and sold off many of the shops, a few of which still survive in new hands today.
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 160,000 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 160,000+ online books). Once we include the books we have awaiting processing our total stock is in the vicinity of 1,000,000 titles (probably more… no-one is counting but it they take up more than 40,000 square feet of space packed tight!!)
Hard To Find Books
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Opening Hours
(subject to change)
Monday:
9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday:
9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday:
9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday:
9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday:
9:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday:
9:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday:
9:30am - 5:30pm