London Rare & Antiquarian Book Fair

17th May 2025, 18th May 2025

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Event Information

One of our largest premier antiquarian book fairs featuring almost a hundred UK and international booksellers showcasing rare books, maps, prints, ephemera, collector items and more to suit all pockets.  There will be a range of specialisms, from Modern First Editions, Children’s Literature, History, Travel, Sport,  and Religion, to name but a few.

Fair kindly sponsored by Forum Auctions,

FREE admission, but you can download the 'complimentary ticket' with the fair details. 

Refreshments available at the venue.

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Key Details

Time & Date 17th May 2025, 13:00 - 19:00 18th May 2025, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue ILEC Conference Centre, IBIS London Earls Court, 47 Lillie Road, London, SW6 1UD

Organisers Hereward Books Tel: 01353 740821 Email: sales@herewardbooks.co.uk

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Travel Information

Train

West Brompton - 5 minute walk to Ibis London Earls Court

Underground0

Underground

Earls Court underground

Driving

The venue is a quarter of a mile (400m) from the A4, providing easy access to the M4, M5 and M40

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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.

PEER GYNT.

RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates. ; IBSEN. HENRIK.

Harrap and Co. London.

£600.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

MANSFIELD PARK. A Novel.

AUSTEN. JANE.

Richard Bentley. London.

£1450.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

THE AMATEUR COOK.

ATTWELL. MABEL LUCIE. Illustrates. ; Burrill, K. and Booth, Annie. M.

W. & R. Chambers. Ltd. London.

£150.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

NERVE. --- Signed.

FRANCIS. DICK.

Michael Joseph. London.

£175.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

THE WORLD CRISIS. 1911-1914, 1915, 1916-1918 (2 Vo...

CHURCHILL. WINSTON SPENCER.

Thornton Butterworth Limited. London.

£1250.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

ENGLISH LYRICS FROM SPENSER TO MILTON. Introductio...

BELL. ROBERT ANNING. Illustrates.

George Bell & Sons. London.

£425.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

GONE WITH THE WIND.

MITCHELL. MARGARET.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London.

£425.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

ALBUM OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM SOMME DURING WO...

KNOWLES. R.M.

NP. ND.

£600.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Signed by Steadman.

CARROLL. LEWIS. ; STEADMAN. RALPH. Illustrates.

Dennis Dobson. London.

£750.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Dracula

Stoker, Bram

Rider & Co

Reserved

Offered by White Eagle Books

KLEEDERDRAGTEN EN TYPEN DER BEWONERS VAN NEDERLAND...

DUTCH PROVINCIAL FASHION. ; Artist unknown.

P. G. Van Lom. Amsterdam.

£375.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happines...

CLAPPERTON, Jane Hume

London: Kegan Paul. Trench and Co

£175.00

Offered by Quair Books

1779 ARTILLARY MANUSCIPT

.

£1150.00

Offered by Hereward Books

A FINE WILLIAM IV PERIOD COMMONPLACE BOOK DATED 18...

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£1500.00

Offered by Hereward Books

Charles Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace -The Zoolog...

Charles Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace

John Van Voorst

£2200.00

Offered by Hereward Books

KALENDARIUM HORTENSE. - THE GARD'NERS ALMANAC. Dir...

EVELYN. JOHN.

The Stourton Press. Hackney. London.

£675.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

The Unknown Shore

Patrick O'Brien

Rupert Hart-Davis

£75.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Harper Collins

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Across The River And Into The Trees

Ernest Hemingway

Jonathan Cape

£140.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Secret Seven

Enid Blyton

Brockhampton Press Ltd

£130.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve

Washington Irving

Hodder & Stoughton

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

69th-71st Annual Conferences Held at Llandudno, Lo...

National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations

The National Union of Conservatives

£350.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

An Old Fashioned Christmas Day

Washington Irving

Hodder & Stoughton

£64.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Churchill By His Contemporaries

Edited by Charles Eade

Hutchinson

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

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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Francis Edwards | G J Coombes & D Clark Hereford

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Forest Books | W R H Laywood Grantham

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Wilfrid de Freitas | Wilfrid de Freitas Quebec, Canada

121

Finecopy | David Brown Westbury

3

Fine Book Cellar | Christian Havlik Colchester

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Kingsbridge Books | Paul Davies Kingsbridge

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Resources

Please find some helpful links below. If you need anything else, do not hesitate to get in touch.

Download Complimentary Ticket

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