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Eliot's Bookshop

  • 584 Yonge St. (at Wellesley) View on map »
  • 416-925-0268

Despite its downtown address, this shop does a good imitation of a quaint English bookstore, with its creaky wooden floors, stepladders and hushed, reverent air. With 60,000 volumes and about 60 official categories, Eliot’s caters to every niche. The film section, for example, is organized by categories devoted to Hollywood, history, biography, theory, practice and screenplays. But the store’s crown jewel is the literature section: 16,000 volumes of CanLit, poetry, drama, criticism, biography and general literature. Most sell for half their list price, but cost varies depending on condition or rarity. A vintage paperback such as a first edition of Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger might fetch far more ($55) than a swank hardcover (such as the first edition of Sybille Bedford’s classic Huxley biography, $14.95). Other jewels have included Leonard Cohen’s Strange Muc, in hardbound and signed ($400).

Hours:
M–Sa 11–8, Su noon–8.
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    584 Yonge St. (at Wellesley)

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