Event Information

With around 75 dealers offering tens of thousands of rare, collectable and second-hand books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera, the Oxford Premier Book Fair frequently attracts the attention of both local and national press.   

A great two-day fair for all book lovers young and old.  Our book dealers have travelled from different parts of the country and will have something to suit everyone at prices starting from £2 up to the £1000's. 

Cafe on site.

There will also be a second fair at this venue, on Saturday 18th October, a one-day fair. 

Key Details

Time & Date 26th April 2025, 12:00 - 18:00 27th April 2025, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 0BP

Organisers Tom Lintern-Mole, Antiquates Ltd Tel: 01929 556656 or 07921 151496 Email: tom@lintern-mole.com
Grace Barham, Pocock Rare Books Tel: 07528 159007 Email: contact@pocockrarebooks.co.uk

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 2.00

Travel Information

Parking

There is NO on-site parking, the car park used in the past near to the venue on London Road is now pay and display. Alternatively, Thornhill is the nearest Park & Ride, and the buses back into Oxford will stop outside the venue.

Train

Oxford, 2 miles

Bus

From city centre and railway station. More details see http://brookesbus.oxfordbus.co.uk

Driving

From the south - take the M40, leave at junction 8 and follow the signs for Oxford along the A40. Then follow the signs for the city centre on the London Road. From the north - take the M40, leave at junction 8a and follow the signs for Oxford along the A40. Then follow the signs for the city centre on the London Road.

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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.

Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happines...

CLAPPERTON, Jane Hume

London: Kegan Paul. Trench and Co

£175.00

Offered by Quair Books

[SCOTTISH INTEREST] Sing-Song: A nursery rhyme boo...

ROSSETTI, Christina G.; HUGHES, Arthur (illustrator); BROTHERS DALZIEL (engravers); [MACLEHOSE, James J.]; [CAMERON, Sir David Young (ex libris design).

London: Macmillan and Co.

£150.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Song of the Cold [Edwin Morgan's copy]

SITWELL, Edith; [MORGAN, Edwin]

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd

£75.00

Offered by Quair Books

Sesame and Lilies; Ethics Of The Dust; The Crown O...

RUSKIN, John. [Arts & Crafts binding]

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers

£275.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Intruder.

MAETERLINCK, Maurice; KING, Jessie M. (front wrapper illustration); [CHENHALLS, C. Hope]; [WESTFIELD COLLEGE]

London: Gowans & Gray, Ltd/ Gowan’s International Library

£120.00

Offered by Quair Books

BOOKPLATES

GEORGE A. FOTHERGILL

£2500.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

[DE ROMANIS, Antonio? attributed to]

EXQUISITE ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHES

£5250.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

Design for a Gothic Villa.

GOTHIC REVIVAL

£250.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

ANCIENT MASONRY

BATTY LANGLEY

£3800.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

DESIGNS FOR CASTLE EDEN

WILLIAM NEWTON

£3750.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

Guide to Palestine: Land of Health Resorts

S. Sharnopolsky

Tel-Aviv: Society for Establishment of Health Resorts in Palestine

Reserved

Offered by Salsus Books

Historical notices and recollections relating to t...

Rev W.L. Smith

London: Elliot Stock

£220.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

A Narrative of the extraordinary adventures, and s...

Donald Campbell

London, Printed for Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry

£190.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

[Russian text] - War and Peace - A suite of wood e...

Anatolii I. Kalashnikov, RE (Hon). Introduced by W.E. Butler

The Society of Wood Engravers;

£175.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Champavert contes immoraux. Avec frontispice a l'e...

Petrus Borel le lycanthrope

Bruxelles, J. Blanche

£175.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Catalogus manuscriptorum in bibliotheca publica ap...

Sir Thomas Phillipps

Typis Medio Montanis, excudit Eduinus Offer - Edwyn Offer Middle Hill Press

£150.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Eirenarcha, or of the office of the Justice of Pea...

William Lambarde

London, Printed for the Companie of Stationers

£650.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The poll of the freeholders of Oxfordshire, Taken...

Oxfordshire election of 1754

Oxford, Printed at the Theatre

£375.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Now We Are Six | 1st Edition / 1st Impression 1927

A.A Milne

Methuen

£749.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

The House at Pooh Corner | 1st Edition / 1st Impre...

A.A Milne

Methuen

£749.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Chapter House Dune | Signed First Edition/First Im...

Frank Herbert

Victor Gollancz

£1249.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

The Tales of Beedle The Bard | Signed First Editio...

J. K. Rowling

Bloomsbury

£1499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Winnie the Pooh | 1926 1st Edition / 1st Impressi...

A. A. Milne

Methuen

£1199.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold | 1963 & 2013 (S...

John Le Carre

Victor Gollancz

£1999.99

Offered by Endpaper 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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David Ford Books | David Ford Cley-next-the-Sea

48

Donald Munro | Donald Munro St Albans

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Daniel Ahern | Daniel Ahern Tidworth

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Humber Books Ltd. | Gareth Cresswell Kingston upon Hull

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Hewett's Books | Luke Hewett Liverpool

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Kingsbridge Books | Paul Davies Kingsbridge

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Pablo Butcher | Pablo Butcher Dorchester on Thames

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Peter Hill | Peter Hill Emsworth

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Pete Fry | Peter Fry Grange-over-Sands

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Pocock Rare Books | Grace Barham Shaftesbury

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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