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.

ENDOWMENTS OF THE CHURCH Of SAINT MARY'S, etc

CITY OF LICHFIELD

£450.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

POLL BOOK FOR 1799

CITY OF LICHFIELD

£300.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

CITY OF LICHFIELD

THE BAILIFF'S HANDBOOK

£600.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

WITH ATTRACTIVE ESTATE PLANS

ELMHURST HALL ESTATE, LICHFIELD

£480.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

The Oxford University and City Guide, on a New Pla...

OXFORD.

Oxford: Sold by H. Slatter,

£45.00

Offered by Forest Books

Bob Dylan - the telegraph/ wanted man fanzine 1-18...

Various authors

Bob Dylan information office. Manchester. UK

£250.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Vintage 19th Century Japanese Photo Album with Han...

Kusakabe Kimbei

Studio of Kusakabe Kimbei

£950.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The pageant of the company of Sheremen and Taylors...

Edited by Thomas Sharp

Coventry: Printed by W. Reader

£195.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Stemmata Shirleiana; Or the annals of the Shirley...

Evelyn Philip Shirley

Privately printed by J.B. Nichols and Sons

£375.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The history of Blockley in the county of Worcester

Rev Alfred J. Soden

Printed for private circulation only by JW Parbury, West Orchard, Coventry

£395.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The smallest English dictionary in the world

David Bryce

David Bryce and Son, Glasgow

£145.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Particulars of Shakspeare's House at Stratford on...

Shakespeare's Birthplace sale catalogue 1847

£425.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook

Beryl Barr, ed; Toklas, Alice. B., foreword

Editions Sausalito, California

£70.00

Offered by Undercover Books

O.H.M.S. An Illustrated Record of the Voyage of S.S. %22Tintagel Castle%22, W. McLean and E.H. Shackleton, 1900 - Shackleton's first book IMG_6699 smaller 1500dpi

"Troopin', Troopin', Troopin' to the Sea: "O.H.M.S...

W. McLean & E.H. Shackleton

Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited

£950.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Cleaning Up

Iain M. Banks

BSFG (Birmingham Science Fiction Group)

Reserved

Offered by Lanna Antique

The Bolshevik

Wm. Le Pretre (William Le Pretre)

Henry Walker, London

£350.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

A Treatise on the Venereal Disease; Being Chiefly...

Dr Samuel Chapman

Printed for W. Owen, between the Temple-Gates, Fleet Street, London

£650.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The History of England; from the Invasion of Juliu...

David Hume

Printed by T. Bensley for Robert Bowyer, London

£800.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Itinerarium Septentrionale; Or, A Journey Thro' Mo...

Alexander Gordon

Printed for the Author; and sold by G. Strahan, at the Golden-Ball in Cornhill; J. Woodman, in Russell Street, Covent Garden; W. and J. Innys, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon, near Temple-Bar (all in London).

£750.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

[OXFORDSHIRE INTEREST] The Source and Other Poems.

WATSON, Katherine.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Oxford University interest] Introductio ad veram...

KEILL, Joanne [John Keill, Savilian Professor of Astronomy]; [CLEMENTS, Henry (publisher).

Oxoniæ [Oxford]: E theatro Sheldoniano, impensis H. Clements, ad insigne lunæ falcatæ in Cœmeterio D. Pauli Londini [London]

£200.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Oxforshire interest] Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectu...

RUSKIN, John; [INGLIS, Nesta]; [TUDOR HALL SCHOOL]; [BUMPUS BINDING].

London: George Allen and Sons.

£175.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Watkins Boys (SIGNED)

Courtauld, Simon

Michael Russell

£20.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Erebus (SIGNED)

Palin, Michael

Hutchinson

£25.00

Offered by Kingsbridge 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

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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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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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Resources

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