A small second-hand bookshop at 393 Princes Street in Central Dunedin, named after Nikolai Gogol's satirical novel Dead Souls. The website says it has around 20,000 books in stock at the shop, covering most subjects, genres and price points. Its online range includes titles the website describes as hard to find, such as a 1949 Hogarth Press reprint of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, listed at $123.50 as at 2026. Opening hours on the website are usually 10am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. The shop also sells online, with tracked and insured delivery, and prices are in New Zealand dollars, including GST for New Zealand residents.
Hard To Find Secondhand Bookshop Dunedin, 0.5 km away, rates the same and has 275 reviews. Whitcoulls Dunedin, also 0.9 km away, rates lower.