Abbey’s Bookshop was established in Sydney in 1968 by Ron and Eve Abbey at 115 Pitt Street, relocating one year later to Sydney’s historic Queen Victoria Building.
In 1983, the restoration of the QVB heralded a move to 66 King Street, where the company already operated Penguin Bookshop (since 1977) and Oxford and Cambridge Bookshop (since 1978), specialising in the books of those publishers.
In 1986, all three shops moved to their current premises at 131 York Street, opposite the QVB and only 100 metres from Town Hall Railway Station.