Event Information

Please note the change of weekend for this year.

The Ilkley Book Fair is a long running and friendly event, kindly sponsored by The Grove Bookshop, Ilkley, and we look forward to seeing customers old and new. 

FREE admission to the fair. 

The King's Hall and Winter Garden venue is conveniently situated opposite the Ilkley train and bus station - an easy level walk from The Grove and central car park.  About fifty dealers will be attending, many from Yorkshire and Lancashire but also from as far afield as Scotland and the south coast, offering thousands of items covering a huge variety of second-hand and antiquarian, fiction, non-fiction and related ephemera for collectors and browsers alike, from pocket money prices and beyond. 

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Key Details

Time & Date 2nd August 2024, 12:00 - 18:00 3rd August 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue King's Hall & Winter Garden, Station Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8HB

Organisers Louise Harrison, T P Books Tel: 07719 606211 Email: l.harrison539@btinternet.com

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Travel Information

Parking

Town centre car parks

Train

Ilkley station, 2-3 mins walk

Bus

Town centre stops, then 2-3 mins walk

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Highlights

If you are thinking of attending this fair, why not have a look at some of the books recommended by some of the Members who will be there.

A Game of Hide and Seek

Taylor, Elizabeth

Peter Davies,

£200.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Derek Jarman

Peake, Tony

Little, Brown and Company,

£14.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Thrown to the Woolfs

Lehmann, John

Weidenfeld and Nicolson,

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Old Herbaceous

Arkell, Reginald and illustrated by John Minton

Michael Joseph,

£30.00

Offered by C L Hawley

West Indian Stories

Salkey, Andrew (editor), E. R. Braithwaite, et al

Faber & Faber,

£20.00

Offered by C L Hawley

John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation

Lesley Taylor & Shirley Levon

Wakefield Historical Publications

£20.00

Offered by The Book House

Liverpool as it was During The Last Quarter of The...

Brooke, Richard.

J. Mawdsley and Son.

£175.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

The History Of Manchester In Four Books.

Whitaker, (Rev.John, 1735-1808)

J. Murray

£200.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

The Fables of Aesop

Thomas Bewick

E. Walker

£745.00

Offered by Pete Fry

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Dent and Sons

£395.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Witchcraft At The Lamb Inn Bristol

Henry Durbin

Vance Havey

£127.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Trial Of The Lancaster Witches

G. B. Harrison

Pete Davies

£147.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Witchfinder General

Ronald Bassett

Pan books

£275.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Philosophy of Witchcraft

Ian Ferguson

Harrap

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

William Morris Print

William Morris

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

£175.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Wrestliana: or History of the Cumberland and Westm...

Walter Armstrong

Simpkin, Marshall and Co.

£167.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Third Reich In Antarctica

Cornelia Ludecke

Bluntisham books

£145.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Berries and heaths of Rannoch

A. Snowdrop

George Bell

£87.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Welsh Botanology

Hugh Davies

W. Merchant

£195.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Contributions to the Flora of Mentone

John Traheme Moggridge

L. Reeve

£775.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Flora Anglica

Gulielmi Hudsoni

R. Faulder

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Flora Bedfordiensis

Charles Abbot

Bedford: printed by W. Smith

£750.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The English Physician

Nicholas Culpeper

Printed for the Booksellers

£475.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

Thomas Kelley

£495.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Fair Exhibitors

If you would like to see which Members will be at this fair, you can browse through them all below. Just select the letter their name starts with and click their name to see their specific page.

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Grove Rare Books | Adam Yates Nr Skipton

2

G Mosdell, The Junction Bookshop | Glenda Mosdell Llandudno Junction

112

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Pete Fry | Peter Fry Grange-over-Sands

228

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Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

90

Saltmarsh Books | Peter Saltmarsh Chesterfield

38

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The Book House | Brigid Irwin Northallerton

97

Guest Exhibitors

We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.

Roo Waterhouse Art
Celebrate your life in books with a bespoke 'Shelf Portrait'. Roo Waterhouse’s detailed oil paintings of treasured and iconic books build up a portrait to resonate with your stories and reflect your life and passions. Rather like Desert Island Discs... Which books would you choose?

Contact:

Telephone: 07905 889773
Address

Northlight Art Studios
Valley Road
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6DG

Yardley Books
Specialist: art books and exhibition catalogues, antiquarian books & prints.

Contact: Ed Yardley

Telephone: 07956 024245
Address

2 Rock Hall, Valley Road
Hayfield
High Peak
Derbyshire
SK22 2LP

James Frank

Contact:

Pam & John Finch

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