Booksellers & Stationers in Cape Town

V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

Art@Africa is a gallery on the 1st Floor of the Clocktower Centre, Silo District, V&A Waterfront, selling paintings, drawings, sculptures, collectable prints, functional art and art books from artists including Barney Bernardo, David Griessel and Kara Schoeman. It also curates art at two wine estates in addition to the waterfront gallery.

Best for Original paintings sculpture and prints

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199 Long Street, Cape Town 8001, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa

Long Street's independent bookshop in Cape Town - books, magazines and paper goods.

Best for Independent books, magazines and paper goods on Long Street.

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62 Main Road, Kalk Bay, Cape Town 7975, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa

Kalk Bay Books continues to host author conversations and launches at its Main Road shop. The events calendar gives the small peninsula bookseller a cultural role beyond shelving new fiction and nonfiction.

Best for Author conversations, launches, new fiction and nonfiction.

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The Botanical Society Bookshop at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden's Visitors' Centre sells books on flora, gardens, fauna, and natural history, plus children's titles, stationery, and gift cards, open daily from 9am to 6pm. A smaller satellite shop at the Centre for Home Gardening (Gate 2) carries the same range, and Botanical Society members get a 10% discount at both.

Best for Books, gifts, stationery, botanical

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Kalk Bay, Cape Town

Founded in 1990 and still family-owned, the shop at 64 Main Rd, Kalk Bay sells rare and antiquarian books, art and collectibles covering Africana, natural history, biography, art and architecture, travel and modern first editions, along with maps, prints and ephemera. It also performs valuations and buys consignments.

Best for Rare books maps and prints

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Roastin' Records stocks vinyl records across decades and genres, from hard to find pressings to contemporary releases. The shop also sells CDs, cassettes, Pro-Ject turntables, accessories and books, both online and in-store.

Best for Vinyl records, CDs, cassettes and Pro-Ject turntables

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56 Surrey Street, Harfield Village, Cape Town 7708, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa

Official site (visited 2026-08-25) still trades out-of-print Africana and sport books from Harfield Village and prints '1986–2026 / Yes, 40 years of Select Books'; founder member of SABDA. AntiquarianAuctions.com seller page: established on Long Street in 1986; relocated to Harfield Village in 2018; still issues Africana catalogues.

Best for Independent books and paper goods.

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71 Roeland Street, Cape Town 8001, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa

Cape Town's Roeland Street bookshop: independent, with magazines and paper alongside the books.

Best for Independent books, magazines and paper goods on Roeland Street.

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