Hardcopy Books

04/03/2026

We are very excited to join the 6 branches of Books Galore Joburg established since 1993 (32 years in business) and keep our hardcopy online sales separate www.hardcopy.co.za shopping online.
Free collection at Books Galore Northcliff branch cnr Hocky & Beyers Naude Dr. (Few steps from Impala fruit and veg)
Their contact number VoIP
at Northcliff Books Galore landline is 0816428417
their WA ONLY line (no calls)
0816429473 strictly WA

Second-hand and collectable book store

22/01/2026

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22/01/2026

Hardcopy for Sale Established since 2020 in Parkhurst with
8200 books, like new, all genres and even collectibles.
K350 with true SARS audited figures.
NOT selling cc or name but everything inside computers fittings its move in ready just gotta negotiate lease with landlord
*MUST be a book lover and OWNER RUN* non negotiable rent R22 000 all in.

29/12/2025

ON THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY

December 29, 1916 - PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN is published. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914 –15 and in book form in 1916; considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus, who later reappeared as one of the main characters in Joyce’s Ulysses (1922).
Each of the novel’s five sections is written in a third-person voice that reflects the age and emotional state of its protagonist, from the first childhood memories written in simple childlike language to Stephen’s final decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art, written in abstruse Latin-sprinkled stream-of-consciousness prose.

The novel’s rich symbolic language and brilliant use of stream of consciousness foreshadowed Joyce’s later work. The work is a drastic revision of an earlier version entitled Stephen Hero and is the second part of Joyce’s cycle of works chronicling the spiritual history of humans from Adam’s Fall through the Redemption. The cycle began with the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and continued with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (1939)

29/12/2025

ON THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY

December 29, 1894 – British poet Christina Rossetti lost her battle with breast cancer at the age of 64.

28/12/2025

ON THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY

December 28, 1973 - Solzhenitsyn’s GULAG ARCHIPELAGO is first published in French, by YMCA Press, followed by an English publication in 1974. Written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the book is a three-volume non-fiction account of the Soviet forced labour camp system. The book was an instant success in the West, but Soviet officials were livid. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, declared that the work was an “unfounded slander” against the Russian people. On February 12, 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his citizenship, and deported. He eventually settled in the United States. In the 1980s, he refused Mikhail Gorbachev’s offer to reinstate his Soviet citizenship, but did return to Russia to live in 1994. Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure in Moscow on August 3, 2008. He was 89.

28/12/2025

ON THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY

December 28, 1897 – Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac premiered in Paris. Cyrano de Bergerac was a real dramatist and famous duellist who lived in the 17th century, but Rostand embellished facts about his life when using his likeness in his play. The plot of the play centres on Cyrano de Bergerac, a talented poet and fencer, who is tragically cursed with an extremely large nose. He falls in love with Roxane, the most beautiful and charming woman in town, but cannot express his feelings face to face as he is so sure he will be rejected. He eventually uses the beautiful but idiotic Christian as his mouthpiece in wooing Roxane. Cyrano’s debut was so successful that it is said that the audience applauded a full hour after the final curtain fell.

27/12/2025

ON THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY

December 27, 1913 – Poet and author Elizabeth Smart was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Smart was moved by the poetry of George Barker as a young woman and took great efforts to meet him, saying she wanted to marry him. She even saved up money to fly Barker and his wife to Canada from Japan, where they had been living. Soon after, she and Barker began an affair, which lasted for decades and produced four children. Smart’s parents took great efforts to stop this affair, even convincing Canadian officials to ban Barker from entering the country. Smart is best remembered for her prose poetry novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, reflecting on the feelings she had at her parents keeping her lover away from her.

27/12/2025

Of course we have the Peter Pan play!

27/12/2025

ON THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY

December 27, 1904 - PETER PAN opens in London’s Duke of York Theatre. Primarily because regulations at the time would not allow children to be on stage, a young boy could not play the role of Peter Pan, and an adult male actor would not have been suited for the role. The play then followed the pantomime tradition of casting a young woman in the role of the principal boy, although the original Peter Pan play was never classified as a pantomime. Tinker Bell was represented on stage by a darting light "created by a small mirror held in the hand off-stage and reflecting a little circle of light from a powerful lamp" and her voice was "a collar of bells and two special ones that Barrie brought from Switzerland". However, a Miss "Jane Wren" or "Jenny Wren" was listed among the cast on the programmes of the original productions as playing Tinker Bell: this was meant as a joke that fooled H.M. Inspector of Taxes, who sent her a tax demand.