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The curved basement front of McNaughtan's Bookshop, its windows lined with books.
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McNaughtan's Bookshop & Gallery

Scotland's oldest second-hand and antiquarian bookshop, open since 1957 below Haddington Place at the top of Leith Walk.

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At the top of Leith Walk, a few steps down from the pavement on Haddington Place, a curved basement front lined with window-shelves of old books belongs to McNaughtan's.

It opened in 1957, and it is the oldest second-hand and antiquarian bookshop in Scotland.

Inside, the rooms are lined from floor to ceiling with dark wooden shelves, and the stock runs from everyday second-hand copies to rare and collectable books, first editions and fine bindings, with old maps among them. The booksellers buy as well as sell, and they send out lists of their new finds from time to time.

The shop opens every day from eleven until five, and on Thursdays it stays open until eight. Typewronger Books and the Cookbook Shop are neighbours on the same stretch.

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Before you go

Open every day from eleven until five, and on Thursdays until eight.

The shop is a few steps below the street.

Where
3a and 4a Haddington Place, Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH7 4AE.
Open
Every day, 11am to 5pm; Thursday until 8pm.

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Where it is

At the top of Leith Walk, on Haddington Place.

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  5. Edinburgh PlayhouseEdinburgh PlayhouseThe Playhouse at the top of Leith Walk, for the big musicals.Under a mile 2 min by road
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