Event Information

The Bath Book Fair is back, in conjunction with the ABA, at the Bath Pavilion.

Around 70 PBFA and ABA members will be offering antiquarian, vintage and secondhand books, prints, maps, and other printed materials for sale.

Please scroll to the bottom for the link to the floor plan.

Key Details

Time & Date 31st July 2026, 12:00 - 18:00 1st August 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Bath Pavilion, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EU

Organisers Antiquates Ltd Tel: 01929 208224, 07921 151496 Email: tom@lintern-mole.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 2.00

Travel Information

Driving

M4, junction 18, then A46 to Bath/Stroud,

Parking

Good parking facilities at the venue.

Train

Bath Spa railway station is a 10 minute walk away.

Bus

Bath bus station is a 10 minute walk away. The closest bus stop is called North Parade and serves buses; 19, A4, D1X and X39.

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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.

Brighton Rock with parts of original dust jacket

Graham Greene

Heinemann

£375.00

Offered by The Antiquarian Book Company

The Saucy Jane Family - Signed Copy #101634

Enid Blyton

Lutterworth

£395.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Little Fairy Sister

Mary Rentoul Outhwaite & Grenbry Outhwaite

A & C Black

£995.00

Offered by Wool House Autographic

For your Convenience. A learned Dialogue, Instruct...

PRY, Paul [Pseud, Thomas BURKE]

George Routledge & Sons Ltd

£4500.00

Offered by Fold The Corner Books

Millenium Trilogy + 3 (6 Books)

Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz

Maclehose Press

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Man-Eaters Of Kumaon

Jim Corbett

Oxford University Press

£150.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

British birds in their Haunts

Rev C A Johns

Routeledge

£20.00

Offered by Temple of Fancy - Books and Ephemera

A treatise on Brewing H D Symonds Paternoster row

Morrice Alexaner

£30.00

Offered by Temple of Fancy - Books and Ephemera

A Treatise on Photography

Wiveleslie Abney

Longmans and green

£15.00

Offered by Temple of Fancy - Books and Ephemera

Dancing In The Dark: My Struggle: 4 - SIGNED

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Harvill Secker

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

nineteen eighty-four (1984)

George Orwell

Secker & Warburg

£3225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The English Bijou Almanac for 1838

L.E.L Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Schloss, London.

£1000.00

Offered by The Antiquarian Book Company

A Pictorial Guide To The Lakeland Fells (7 Vols)

A Wainwright / Chris Jesty

Michael Joseph / France Lincoln

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Book Of Dust Trilogy (3 Books)

Philip Pullman

David Fickling Books

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Miracles of Our Lord

Henry Noel Humphreys (Illuminator and Designer)

Longman & Co., London

£450.00

Offered by G Mosdell, The Junction Bookshop

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

George Allen & Unwin

£110.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner

Alan Sillitoe

W.H.Allen

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Jungle Books - finely bound by Bayntuns of Bat...

Kipling, Rudyard

Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London

£380.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

Grimms' Fairy Tales - finely bound by Bayntun-Rivi...

Brothers Grimm

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London

£200.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

Little Women - finely bound by Bayntun of Bath

Alcott, Louisa May

Little, Brown and Company, London

£250.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

Cider with Rosie - signed and inscribed eleventh i...

Lee, laurie

Hogarth Press, London

£150.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

The Lord of the Rings - second impression paperbac...

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel

George Allen and Unwin, London

£180.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

James and the Giant Peach - a Children's Story - s...

Dahl, Roald

George Allen and Unwin, London

£140.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

The Princess Nobody - a Tale of Fairy Land - first...

Lang, Andrew

Longmans, Green and Co.

£350.00

Offered by Peter 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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Castle Town Books | Alec Thorne Sherborne

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Steve Liddle | Stephen M Liddle Bishopston

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Stour Bookshop | Tony Butler Sturminster Newton

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Stephen Rench | Stephen Rench Shipston on Stour

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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.

Hugh Ashley Rayner
Fine books, maps & antique photographs of India & the Orient.

Contact:

Address

Malvern Buildings
Fairfield Park
Bath
BA1 6JX

Mayfair Rare Books & Manuscripts

Contact: Paolo Rambaldi

Telephone: +39 335 81 29 826
Address

Saint George Street
London
W1S 2FN

Resources

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