In 1974 David Mirvish opened an art bookstore as an outgrowth of the David Mirvish Gallery. The gallery exhibited  abstract artists and colour field painters and sculptors. Some of the artists exhibited included Milton Avery, Jack Bush, Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Robert, Motherwell, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella.  

For thirty eight years the bookstore Sunday New York Times at a discount, ran weekly specials on new and overstocked books, looked for great material on art, design, literature, plus cookbooks, travel, always with an aim to sell good quality at good value in the tradition of our parent sotore, Honest Ed's. Book launches, artist and author booksignings were regular events.   For a number of years the bookstore installed exhibition in conjunction with The Museum for Textiles when they were part of Mirvish Village.  Exhibitions were mounted in conjuction with publications such as Toronto: A City Becoming, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians,  Otto Rogers, Reading Writers Reading and Abstract  Painting in Canada.

The bookstore closed its doors to the public on March 1, 2009.  It is time to focus on other projects which including cataloguing out-of-print material for sale online here and on ABEBooks.com.

For information on shows  now onstage through Mirvish Productions please check www.mirvish.com