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.

Eleven Poems | First Edition/Second Impression (UK...

Seamus Heaney

Festival Publications, Queen’s University, Belfast

£1999.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

The Carpet People | Signed by Sir Terry Pratchett...

Sir Terry Pratchett

Colin Smythe Gerrards Cross

£2999.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets | Signed by...

J.K Rowling

Bloomsbury

£3499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Wolf Hall Trilogy | Signed, Lined & Dated | 1st E...

Hilary Mantel

Harper Collins

£3499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Signed 1st Edi...

J.K Rowling

Bloomsbury

£3499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Nineteen Eighty Four. First Edition/First Impressi...

George Orwell

Secker & Warburg

£3499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Broughton Castle, Oxon. Catalogue of an important...

Messrs Enoch & Redfern

£750.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

studio: international journal of modern art

Townsend, Peter, ed.

London/NY: Cory, Adamas & Mackay Limited

£120.00

Offered by Undercover Books

art and artists

Mario Amaya, ed.

London: Hansom Books

£250.00

Offered by Undercover Books

3 no. interbellum hobbyist items

Various

£195.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design

Poynor, Rick; Coates, Stephen, eds.

Wordsearch Ltd.

£100.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Poem to Joanie

Dylan, Bob; Weberman, A. J., intro.

London: aloes

£130.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Dream Days

Grahame, Kenneth

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head

£150.00

Offered by Undercover Books

[Drop head title:] The Masses and the Classes: A p...

[New Woman]; ELLIS, Edith Lees.

[Manchester]: [Ancoats Brotherhood].

£195.00

Offered by Quair Books

Perfect Bound

Peter Robinson, Bill Bennett, Aidan Semmens, Richard Hammersley, eds.

Cambridge Poetry Society

£250.00

Offered by Undercover Books

The Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum; With a synop...

[FORD, Laeticia aka Laeticia JERMYN]; [CLARKE, Willam Barnard]

London: Longman and Co.; Whittaker and Co.; and F. Pawsey, Ipswich.

£250.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Marsden Case

Ford, Ford Madox (Ford Madox Hueffer)

London: Duckworth

£1250.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Pagan Spain

Wright, Richard

London: The Bodley Head

£35.00

Offered by Undercover Books

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (and others)

Nabokov, Vladimir

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson

£65.00

Offered by Undercover Books

THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM....

Page, William. (Ed)

Constable

£250.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

The Poems of William Shakespeare, According to the...

Shakespeare, William

Essex House Press

£500.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

An English Version of The Eclogues of Virgil. By S...

Palmer, Samuel.

Seeley & Company

£1250.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

Writing & illuminating & lettering

Edward Johnston

Sir Isaac Pitman

£120.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Group of 6 Christmas cards and two invitations by...

Michael Dinkel, R.W.S., A.R.C.A.

£75.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

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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