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.

Please scroll down to the bottom to download the floor plan and exhibitor list.

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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

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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.

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming

Jonathan Cape

£200.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Crowds And Power

Elias Canetti

Victor Gollancz Ltd

£520.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Rome

Emile Zola

Bibliotheque-Charpentier

£600.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Windmill Land, More Windmill Land, Windmill Land S...

Allen Clarke

J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd and Palatine Books Co

£315.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

THE FAITHFUL BULL.

HEMINGWAY. ERNEST. -- Michael Foreman Illustrates.

Hamish Hamilton. London.

£450.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Soldiers Of Misfortune

P.C. Wren

John Murray

£236.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend

Methuen

£240.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Humming Bird

Eleanor Farjeon

Michael Joseph

£600.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Fingersmith, Signed

Sarah Waters

Virago

£96.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Carrie's War

Nina Bawden

Victor Gollancz Ltd

£600.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling

Bloomsbury

£280.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

Louis de Bernieres

Secker & Warburg

£72.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

[Manuscript Land Deeds: ‘Transfer & Assignment of...

[ANNE LISTER INTEREST]; [RAWSON, Stansf(i)eld]; [KENNY, Mason Stanhope]; [ASHWORTH, John]; [NICHOLSON, William].

[Halifax, Leeds & Wakefield]

£250.00

Offered by Quair Books

Leaves of Grass: The poems of Walt Whitman [select...

WHITMAN, Walt; RHYS, Ernest (introduction) [Lascelles & Ralph ABERCROMBIE].

London and Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott

£275.00

Offered by Quair Books

THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT INTEREST AND MONE...

KEYNES. JOHN MAYNARD.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London.

£1500.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALT...

SMITH. ADAM.

Printed for G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards; Thomas Tegg...... London.

£1600.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.

SALINGER. J. D.

Little, Brown and Company. Boston.

£2000.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire By W. Chambers Lefr...

W. Chambers Lefroy

Seeley Jackson & Halliday

£325.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

The all-but dedication copy: Radclyffe Hall at the...

LOVAT DICKSON, [Rache]; [RUBINSTEIN, Michael]; [RUBINSTEIN, Harold]

London and Toronto: Collins

£500.00

Offered by Quair Books

THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. A story for...

LEWIS. C. S. ; BAYNES. PAULINE. Illustrates.

Geoffrey Bles. London.

£1875.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. AND WHAT ALICE FOUND TH...

CARROLL, LEWIS. ; STEADMAN, RALPH. ILLUSTRATES.

MacGibbon & Kee, London.

£225.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Sex and Seditionaries

WESTWOOD, Vivienne, & Malcolm McLaren - Punk Pistol.

First Edition Publishing, 2006

Reserved

Offered by White Eagle Books

Reg and Ron Kray. Our Story ( Signed by the Krays...

Reg and Ron Kray with Fred Dinenage

Sidgwick and Jackson/Guild Publishing

£350.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

THE WASTED ISLAND.

O'DUFFY. EIMAR.

Martin Lester, Limited. Dublin.

£1000.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

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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Resources

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Floor Plan & Exhibitors

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