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.  David Mirvish Books is now in the building designed by Australian architect John Andrews for the gallery in 1970. Installed on the back wall of the bookstore is Frank Stella’s 1970  “Damascus Gate, Stretch Variation”. The fifty foot long painting from Stella's protractor series overlooks the main room above an equally long shelf of books on artist’s monographs.

We concentrate on books on the visual arts: art, photography, architecture and design. In addition we stock a complimentary selection of general interest books - literature, non-fiction, and cookbooks. Our website represents only a portion of our current, forthcoming, out-of-print and remaindered titles. 

As the bookstore is primarily a walk in business it will occur that  book requests through the website will be out of stock or no longer available. We will let you know about availability as quickly as possible. Conversely the out-of-print material listed on the site is not available to the walk-in customer. Additional enquiries about these books should be directed to our Out of Print department.