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Celebrating 50 years of book fairs 

York National Book Fair

15th Sep 2023, 16th Sep 2023

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Event Information

From modest beginnings with just 20 exhibitors at the White Swan Inn in York in 1974, the York National Book Fair has grown into the largest, and many say friendliest, rare, antiquarian & out-of-print book fair in the UK and Europe.

At the York National Book Fair, you will find books over 500 years old, be able to review copies of recently published works, and everything in between. The book fair will take place at York Racecourse. This venue is very easy to reach - there is unlimited free parking, and also a free shuttle bus from the Railway Station (Memorial Gardens) to the fair every 30 minutes, starting at 10.30am on Friday, and 9.30am on Saturday.  The last buses from the fair to the station will depart at 7.15pm on Friday and 5.15pm on Saturday.

Do also visit the fair's website, www.yorkbookfair.com where you can find more fair details, including an interactive floor plan.

Who Will Enjoy The Fair?
Anyone interested in books and reading. This is not just a Fair for dealers, but is open to everyone young and old, and a great place to start collecting. With over 100,000 books for sale, where else can you look at, touch, enjoy, and even purchase so many rarities under one roof. If you are already a collector then attending the York National Book Fair is a great opportunity to meet new dealers in your area.

Books, Prints, Maps & Ephemera
Held over two days, over 150 of this country's leading booksellers offer for sale a breath-taking diversity of books, as well as posters, ephemera, manuscripts, maps & prints, ranging in price from just a few pounds up to tens of thousands of pounds. This year we also welcome a number of dealers from overseas.

Refreshments: Light refreshments available in café.

Key Details

Time & Date 15th September 2023, 12:00 - 19:00 16th September 2023, 10:00 - 17:00

Venue The Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, York, YO23 1EX

Website http://www.yorkbookfair.com

Organisers Tony Fothergill, Ken Spelman Books Ltd Tel: 07960 350909 Email: kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 2.00

Travel Information

Parking

Free, at the venue

Train

York station, just over a mile away

Bus

Free shuttle bus from and to York railway station (Memorial Gardens)

Driving

A1(M), J1

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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.

Strange Stories, vol.1, no.1 (February 1939). Pulp...

n/a

Better Publications

£350.00

Offered by Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

Poems for Shakespeare Volume II

Graham Fawcett (Ed & introduction); Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes et al (signed by)

The Globe Playhouse

£1750.00

Offered by Peakirk Books

Autograph Letter signed "Stephen" to John Morris,...

SPENDER, Stephen

No Publisher

£2250.00

Offered by York Modern Books

Unique commemorative album to be presented to the...

[World War I].

n/a

£19500.00

Offered by Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks

Macmillan

£180.00

Offered by The Bookroom

The Crow Road

Iain M Banks

Scribners

£200.00

Offered by The Bookroom

King Mob

Christopher Hibbert

Longmans, Green and Co.

£20.00

Offered by The Bookroom

Democracy. Today and Tomorrow

BENES, Eduard

Macmillan & Co Ltd

£2000.00

Offered by York Modern Books

war Record of 4th Battalion King's Own Scottish Bo...

W Sorley Brown

McQueen & Son, Galashiels

£90.00

Offered by The Bookroom

JOYCE STRANGER BOOK CLLECTION X30 1ST EDITIONS

JOYCE STRANGER

£95.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

SHOWELL STYLES BOOK COLLECTION X18 BOOKS

SHOWELL STYLES

£95.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

The Chalet School Does it Again

Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.

Chambers

£225.00

Offered by Humford Mill Books

A Palace for the Buckinghams (signed)

Saville, Malcolm

Evans

£175.00

Offered by Humford Mill Books

Life & Explorations of David Livingstone compiled...

J.S.ROBERTS (edits) Published here in WELSH

Murdoch

Reserved

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The LAND OF THE BROADS with MAP

ERNEST R. SUFFLING

Benjamin Perry

£60.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Pictures of English Landscape

Birket Foster

Routledge

£120.00

Offered by T E Jackson Books

The Poetical Works of Dr Jonathan Swift (two volum...

Swift, Dr Jonathan

A. Manson et al.

£375.00

Offered by Humford Mill Books

Knipton: a Leicestershire village. By John O’Conno...

WHITTINGTON PRESS. O’CONNOR (John)

Risbury: The Whittington Press,

£695.00

Offered by Forest Books

Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Th...

BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS (Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861)

London: Hurst and Blackett,

£395.00

Offered by Forest Books

Elements of Botany. Illustrated by Sixteen Engravi...

HULL (John)

Manchester: Printed by R. and W. Dean,

£295.00

Offered by Forest Books

Legends from River and Mountain

Sylva, Carmen and Strettell, Alma

George Allen

£125.00

Offered by Humford Mill Books

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

Ingoldsby, Thomas

William Heinemann

£125.00

Offered by Humford Mill Books

Tales of the Hasidim - The Early Masters

Buber, Martin

Thames and Hudson

£35.00

Offered by Humford Mill Books

[Hermannsburg Mission Zulu]. Inncwadi yokubala. [E...

n/a

"printed for the Hermannsburg Mission by Janecke, brothers, at Hanover"

£500.00

Offered by Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

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

66

Delph Books | Frank Lamb Manchester

7

D B Derbyshire Bookseller | David B Derbyshire & Julie Eyles Bacup

78

David B Jarvis | David Jarvis Penicuik

5

Donald Munro | Donald Munro St Albans

0

David Whittaker | David Whittaker Chipping Norton

239

Daniel Ahern | Daniel Ahern Tidworth

4

Deep Neutral Books | Glenn Miller York

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Love Rare Books | Deborah Davis St Leonards On Sea

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Lycanthia Books | Stella Angwalas-Huson Newark

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Literary Cat Books | Kees van Woerkom Machynlleth

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Pablo Butcher | Pablo Butcher Dorchester on Thames

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Paul Foster Books | Paul Foster London

204

Peter Harrington | Pom Harrington

4

Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers | Jolyon S Hudson

56

Peakirk Books | Heather & Jeff Lawrence, t/a PEAKIRK BOOKS, PBFA Sheringham

45

Peter Hill | Peter Hill Emsworth

8

Picture This | Christopher Bailey & Pamela Fung Sunningdale

10

Paul Bostock Rare Books | Paul Bostock Winster

62

Peter Foster Books | Peter Foster & Thais Leandrini Brand Frome

40

Pete Fry | Peter Fry Grange-over-Sands

226

Paul Hughes | Paul Hughes Bishop Auckland

596

Peffers Rare Books Ltd. | Laurence Peffers Settle

6

Pocock Rare Books | Grace Barham Shaftesbury

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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Guest Exhibitors

We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.

Otter Bookbinding Ltd
Book printing and binding; traditional fine binding; restoration and repair; boxes, folders and portfolios.

Contact: Marysa De Veer

Telephone: 01730 352042
Address

Cissbury
Ashfield Road
Midhurst
West Sussex
GU29 9JS

T L Dallas (City) Ltd.
T L Dallas is one of the UK's leading independent Insurance Broking and Risk Management companies with offices throughout the UK. They are also PBFA approved.

Contact: Molly Jones & Esther Oram

Telephone: 020 7426 5330
Address

14 Devonshire Square
London
EC2M 4YT

Victoria Hall Hand Decorated Papers
Victoria makes hand marbled and paste papers with a particular interest in historic papers which are available from stock or may be ordered. Requests to match old papers are welcome, as are enquiries for use in modern editions and other applications. Gift products. Established 1989.

Contact: Victoria Hall

Telephone: 01328 701381
Address

Hill Farm House, London Street
Whissonsett
Dereham
Norfolk
NR20 5ST

Creative Computing
Creative Computing is based in Abingdon, near Oxford. It offers a variety of computer services, including database and website development. Its "Bookseller" cataloguing database system is used by many of the leading antiquarian booksellers in the UK and worldwide.

Contact: Tom Dupre

Telephone: 01235 539395
Address

Newburn
Tatham Road
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 1QD

Private Libraries Association
We are an international association of people who love and collect books. We aim to share that love and enthusiasm by publishing books and articles on all aspects of the book, anything, in fact, that reflects the interests of our members. In four years time we will celebrate our 70th anniversary and intend to keep going for another seventy years! We publish four journals a year and this year we will be publishing the latest of our books, "Early Private Presses 1730-1900", a two-volume work by David Chambers, the well-known expert in this field. Due to its complexity, this work has taken a lot longer than we expected. However, final editing is almost complete. We will have the full range of our journals and publications available to buy at the fair

Contact: David Fry

The Institute of English Studies
The Institute of English Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) offers training in book, print, and manuscript studies through the London Rare Books School, Palaeography Summer School, and the MA/MRes in the History of the Book.

Contact: Anne-Marie Stephen

Telephone: 020 7862 8679
Address

University of London
Senate House, Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU

Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC)
The Universal Short Title Catalogue Project presents "The Book at War" and titles from "The Library of the Written Word". The Universal Short Title Catalogue Project is a searchable resource providing free access to descriptions of over 1.5 million editions published throughout Europe between 1450 and 1700, along with 400,000 full digital reproductions. It is curated by the book history research team at the University of St Andrews led by Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen.

Contact: Arthur der Weduwen

Telephone: 07572 856079
Address

St John's House
69 South Street
St Andrews
KY16 9QW

R F Shipping Ltd

Contact:

Telephone: 0203 002 6026
Address

Wow Acton, Unit 5, Wendover Court
Western Avenue
London
W3 0TG

Roo Waterhouse Art
Celebrate your life in books with a bespoke 'Shelf Portrait'. Roo Waterhouse’s detailed oil paintings of treasured and iconic books build up a portrait to resonate with your stories and reflect your life and passions. Rather like Desert Island Discs... Which books would you choose?

Contact:

Telephone: 07905 889773
Address

Northlight Art Studios
Valley Road
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6DG

Resources

Please find some helpful links below. If you need anything else, do not hesitate to get in touch.

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