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.

An Essay On fevers

John Huxham

Printed for J. Hinton

£395.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Pharmacopoeia Officinalis and Extemporanea

John Quincy

Thomas Longman

£295.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Medical Works of Richard Mead

Richard Mead

Alexander Donaldson and J. Read

£1260.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Choice of Humorous Works of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Chatto and Windus

£175.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Extreme Rock

Ken Wilson

Diadem

£467.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Dealing in Deceit: Edwin Pearson of the "Bewick Re...

Tattersfield, Nigel

The Bewick Society

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

A Banner for Pegasus

Bonett, John and Emery

Michael Joseph

£70.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Middlemost and the Milltowns: Bourgeois Cultur...

Lewis, Brian

Stanford University Press

£40.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

Atkinson, Diane

Preface

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Island of Bali : With an Album of Photographs by R...

Covarrubias, Miguel and Rose

Alfred A. Knopf

£45.00

Offered by C L Hawley

My Word is My Bond - signed, limited edition

Moore, Roger

Michael O'Mara Books

£180.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Ornithological Dictionary

George Montagu

J. White by T. Bensley

£475.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Virginia Woolf

Richard Kennedy

Richard kennedy

£1320.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Elza, Novella del Secolo Decimoterzo bound with La...

Sestini, B [ Bartolomeo Sestini ]

Presso Leonardo Giardetti

£250.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Correspondence Of Charles Darwin. - the first...

Burkhardt, Frederick et al (edit)

Cambridge, at the University Press

£135.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

Borrowed Time

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Grey Walls

£110.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Days of King Arthur

Hanson, Charles Henry

T. Nelson and Sons

£65.00

Offered by C L Hawley

A Memoir of Miss Mary Jane Graham

Rev. Charles Bridges

R. Seeley and W. Burnside

£157.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Great Rift Valley

J. W. Gregory

John Murray

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Narrative of a Voyage to Sengal in 1816

Savigny. J.B and Correard. A

Henry Colburn

£667.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Tree and Leaf

J. R. R. Tolkien

Unwin

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Memoirs of a Smuggler

John Rattenbury

J. Harvey

£177.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Le Lever de Ouvrieres en Lingne and le Crucher de...

D. Bosio

Studio Bibliografico

£575.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Wordsworth, William

SPCK

£150.00

Offered by C L Hawley

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

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G Mosdell, The Junction Bookshop | Glenda Mosdell Llandudno Junction

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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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