Rare book store

Nice place and staff is friendly to help u find the book u want, if u need!

What a place, could spend hours here, so many interesting things in every bit of this store. If you don't buy anything, the conversations with the owner are fantastic. Differently will be back.

Their kids section is really mint. Great range and really nice staff, who were very kind to my overly enthusiastic children. Really hard to stop them treating the place like a library and taking every book.

Excellent store, helpful staff. As I live in Queenstown and had to visit Eye Hospital in Dunedin I went to the bookstore with my wife and purchased 3 books. Pilgrims Progress and 2 books by Dostoyevsky. Enjoyable place to visit. They posted a book to me earlier in the year which I could not find in Queenstown. Brilliant. Regards Ian

Lovely little secondhand bookstore with very friendly staff. The coffee sign out the front of a little misleading, came in expecting barista coffee but was greeted with just coffee making facilities. Still a great shop. Would visit again.

This is a great second hand bookstore with a good selection of both local Kiwi and international titles. There are also books in other languages. There is a nice garden to read in as well as free tea coffee and water. Being an overseas visitor I appreciated having free wifi so that I was able to contact my brother and find out which of the Kiwi cricket titles he wanted. It was a good place to spend Sunday morning.

Shop itself is fine but the guy running it is rude and confrontational

Wonderful olde world place full of treasures - including the staff - you feel like they might introduce you to Agatha Christie or Indiana Jones.

Best bookshop around. I can always lose myself for hours in there

I’ve been coming to David’s amazingly eclectic gallery/store for the past 35 years in its various renditions. David is a erudite character who has a wealth of knowledge and experience in dealing with the more esoteric and hard-to-find cultural relics of the ages. He’s a down-to-earth chap who’s usually up for a chat about all things interesting and has an amazing selection of vintage items of interest that you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere else in Wellington. If you haven’t been to this must-visit Wellington icon of a gallery, I’d highly recommend a visit next time you’re in upper Cuba/Abel Smith street. 5/5 stars.