York New Year 2025

11th Jan 2025

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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. 
Please scroll to the bottom to download the floor plan.

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, adjacent to the railway station, to the book fair all day long.  The buses leave the Memorial Gardens and The Knavesmire every thirty minutes.

Key Details

Time & Date 11th January 2025, 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 & 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

There will 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.

William Morris Print

William Morris

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

£175.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Third Reich In Antarctica

Cornelia Ludecke

Bluntisham books

£145.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Contributions to the Flora of Mentone

John Traheme Moggridge

L. Reeve

£775.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Flora Anglica

Gulielmi Hudsoni

R. Faulder

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The English Physician

Nicholas Culpeper

Printed for the Booksellers

£475.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

Thomas Kelley

£495.00

Offered by Pete Fry

An Essay On fevers

John Huxham

Printed for J. Hinton

£395.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Medical Works of Richard Mead

Richard Mead

Alexander Donaldson and J. Read

£1260.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Virginia Woolf

Richard Kennedy

Richard kennedy

£1320.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Narrative of a Voyage to Sengal in 1816

Savigny. J.B and Correard. A

Henry Colburn

£667.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The History of Yorkshire. Vol 1

Plantagenet Harrison

Hazel, Watson and Viney

£575.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Poverty and Prostitution

Frances Finnegan

CUP

£67.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Life and Times of Thomas gent

Thomas Gent

Thomas Gent

£147.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Le Lever de Ouvrieres en Lingne and le Crucher de...

D. Bosio

Studio Bibliografico

£575.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Abbeokuta or Sunrise within the Tropics

Miss Tucker

James Nisber

£245.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Novels and Letters

Jane Austen

Claredon Press

£1775.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

Mungo Park

£975.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Artistic Japan

S. Bing

Sampson Low

£347.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Records of York Castle

A. W. Twyford

Griffith and Twyford

£78.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Captain Pugwash

John Ryan

£1148.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Southern Gates of Arabia

Freya Stark

John Murray

£445.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyards

Jared Sparks

Henry Colburn

£895.00

Offered by Pete Fry

ROAR OF THE TIGER.

HOWARD. JAMES H.

Orion Books. New York.

£250.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

THE CINEMA. It's present position and future possi...

CINEMA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.

Williams and Norgate. London.

£750.00

Offered by Paul Foster 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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Forest Books | W R H Laywood Grantham

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Fine Book Cellar | Christian Havlik Chelmsford

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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.

R F Shipping Ltd

Contact:

Telephone: 0203 002 6026
Address

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

Sean Sexton
Signed modern first editions and War of Independence/Civil War material.

Contact:

Telephone: 07771 801484
Address

65 Childwall Park Avenue
Liverpool
L16 0JE

Lindsey Hewitt-Dutton

Contact:

Telephone: 07990 706749
Address

4 Mayfair Drive
Crewe
CW1 5BB

Resources

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

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Floor Plan & Exhibitors

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