Event Information

The book fair will be held at The Spa Hotel, and there will be around 23 PBFA dealers selling antiquarian, vintage and secondhand books, maps, and prints.

Refreshments available.

The fair is kindly sponsored by C & T Auctioneers, Kenardington, nr. Ashford.

Photos courtesy of Penny Young Photography.

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Key Details

Time & Date 8th February 2025, 10:00 - 15:30

Venue Royal Suite, The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8XJ

Organisers Tim Harper, World War Books Tel: 01892 538465 Email: wwarbooks@btinternet.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Driving

A264 out of Tunbridge Wells.

Parking

Available at the hotel

Train

Tunbridge Wells, about a mile away. Taxis available close by.

Bus

Bus route 281 from railway station stops a minute's walk from the hotel.

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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.

Hands Up! In the World of Crime or Twleve Years a...

C. R. Wooldridge

Thompson & Thomas

£40.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Orchidaceae (limited edition)

Hunt, P. Francis

Bourbon Press

£250.00

Offered by Missing Books

Camden's Britannia 1695 - a facsimile of the 1695...

Camden, William

David & Charles

£300.00

Offered by Missing Books

Codex Juris Ecclesiatici Anglicani: or, the Statut...

Gibson, Edmund D.D.

J. Baskett

£150.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer Complete Wit...

A.H.Palmer

£300.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

The Eclogues of Virgil. An English Version.With Il...

Samuel Palmer

£1995.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

Journal of a Tour in Kent 1839

Wonham family [?]

£395.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

Manuscript County Maps 1856

Anon

Unpublished manusctipt

£850.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

A Guide to all the Watering and Sea Bathing Places...

anon

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown

£200.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Path to Power ( Signed by Margaret and Denis T...

Thatcher. Margaret

Harper Collins

£250.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

Moorcroft - the phoenix years

Street, Fraser [Hugh Edwards]

W.M. Publications

£15.00

Offered by Missing Books

Alfie

Naughton, Bill

Macgibbon & Kee

£250.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

A Traveller's Life Signed

Newby, Eric

Collins

£60.00

Offered by David Ford Books

Stories From Hans Andersen

Hans Andersen Edmund Dulac

Hodder & Stoughton

£350.00

Offered by David Ford Books

Rawdon's Roof

Lawrence, D.H.

Elkin Mathews & Marrot

£375.00

Offered by David Ford Books

Memoirs of An Aesthete

Acton, Harold

Methuen & Co

£250.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

Day of the Triffids

Wyndham, John

Michael Joseph

£250.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

The Homes and Gardens of England

Batsford Harry and Fry Charles

B T Batsford

£125.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

The Anatomy of Melancholy #101326

Democritus Junior, Robert Burton

Nonesuch Press

£440.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Stone Book

Garner, Alan

collins

£90.00

Offered by David Ford Books

Tunbridge Wells and its neighbourhood within a rad...

Lady Hope

J. Salmon

£100.00

Offered by Missing Books

Writers in Romney Marsh

Finlayson, Iain

Severn House

£7.50

Offered by Missing 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.

Exhibitors A-Z

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David Ford Books | David Ford Cley-next-the-Sea

48

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Showing 1 Results

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Gage Postal Books | Simon Routh Westcliff-on-Sea

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Showing 1 Results

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J

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L

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Love Rare Books | Deborah Davis St Leonards On Sea

0

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Missing Books | Chris Missing Chelmsford

446

Mayfly | John Martin & C G Martin Eastbourne

23

M Richardson Rare Books | Mark Richardson Lincolnshire Wolds

20

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T

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Resources

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