York New Year

Name: York New Year
Start: 2024-01-13T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-01-13T16:30:00+00:00
Location: York New Year

13th Jan 2024

Event Information

The York New Year Book Fair is an established and friendly event. With around 100 dealers from all over the country, situated on just one floor, the fair offers a rich and delicious variety of choice for anyone interested in books. Thousands of second-hand, antiquarian and rare items will be on offer from all areas of fiction and non-fiction, along with related ephemera. There are prices to suit all pockets.

There is also a café at the fair, open all day, which offers hot and cold refreshments.

There are excellent parking facilities at The Knavesmire. For those travelling by train, or who wish to make use of public transport, there is a free bus service running from the Memorial Gardens to the book fair all day long. The buses leave the Memorial Gardens and The Knavesmire every thirty minutes.

Please scroll down to see the two-page floor plan and exhibitor list.

Key Details

Time & Date 13th January 2024, 10:30 - 16:30

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

Organisers Ken Spelman Books Tel: 07960 350909 Email: kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com
Janette Ray, Rare and Out of Print Books Tel: 01904 623088 Email: books@janetteray.co.uk
Lucius Books Tel: 01904 640111 Email: info@luciusbooks.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Parking

There is plenty of free parking on site.

Train

York, just over a mile away.

Bus

From town centre. There will also be a FREE SHUTTLE BUS RUNNING REGULARLY FROM THE MEMORIAL GARDENS TO THE BOOK FAIR.

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.

Letters to Gypsy -signed copy

Mackay Brown, George

Balnain Books

£50.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Girl and the Faun

Phillpotts, Eden (illus Frank Brangwyn)

J.P. Lippincot

£60.00

Offered by Missing Books

A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Pr...

LUCKOMBE, Philip

London: Printed and Sold by W. Adlard and J. Browne in Fleet Street

£525.00

Offered by Mobilis Books

Stories of the Railway

Whitechurch, V. L.

Routledge and Kegan Paul

£22.00

Offered by C L Hawley

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN PICTURES. Die Musik in funf...

REEVES. WILLIAM. Publishes.

William Reeves. London.

£675.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Three Famous Toymaker Stories: The Three Toymakers...

Williams, Ursula Moray

Piccolo

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

54 Original Programmes (1963-1978)

THE NATIONAL THEATRE; [BRIGGS, Kenneth; CHENNELLS, Susan and BIRD, Richard (graphic designers)]

London: National Theatre

£195.00

Offered by Quair Books

A Childhood

ALLINSON, Francesca; MARX, Enid (dust jacket design & wood engravings)

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press

£250.00

Offered by Quair Books

OUR EXAMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMI...

BECKETT. SAMUEL. ; WILLIAMS. WILLIAM CARLOS. ; EUGENE JOLAS. & Others.

Sylvia Beach. Shakespeare and Company. Paris.

£450.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

The Wood Beyond the World

MORRIS, William; [BENNETT, Arnold]

London: Lawrence and Bullen

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

What Hetty Did or Life and Letters - signed copy

Carr, J. L.

Quince Tree Press

£60.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Ulick and Soracha - signed, limited edition

Moore, George

Nonesuch Press,

£60.00

Offered by C L Hawley

WILDERNESS OMAN.

MACGREGOR. MALCOLM.

Ptarmigan Publishing Ltd, Devizes, Wiltshire.

£300.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

DE QUINCEY. A SELECTION OF HIS BEST WORKS. The Mus...

BRANGWYN. FRANK. Illustrates and designs bindings. -- DE QUINCEY. THOMAS.

Gibbings and Company. London.

£750.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books