Event Information

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

Around 85 PBFA and ABA members will be offering antiquarian, vintage and secondhand books, prints, maps, and other printed materials for sale.

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 Daniel Ahern Tel: 07880 551441 Email: info@danielahernbooks.co.uk

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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.

Emett - Steam Rising, Early Morning' Ink sketch fo...

Emett

Punch

£100.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Pride and Prejudice #101630

Jane Austen

George Allen

£2200.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Everitt's views in Bath and its vicinity

W. Everitt

Published by W. Everitt, City Repository of Arts, 1 Pulteney Bridge Bath

£120.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

A practical dissertation on Bath Waters. I. Of the...

William Oliver MD

London: Printed for James Leake, Bookseller in Bath and sold by Mr Hitch, Bookseller in London

£175.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The Quangle Wangle's Hat #101625

Edward Lear & Helen Oxenbury

Heinemann

£70.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Secret Art of Tom Poulton #101629

Alexander James Maclean

Erotic Print Society

£40.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

A Catalogue of Fifty Famous First Editions Catalog...

Elkin Mathews Ltd.

Elkin Mathews Ltd.

£25.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Papier a La Mode: A Fashion Collection of Paper Dr...

Borchgrave, Isabelle De; Brown, Rita; De Borchgrave, Isabelle

Bellew Publishing Co Ltd

£15.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Player Of Games

Iain M. Banks

Macmillan

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Looking-Glass For The Mind Signed presentation...

Armand Berquin (adapted From) Introduction by Charles Welsh

Griffith, Farran, Okedon and Welsh

£85.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Gaudete

Ted Hughes

Faber and Faber Limited

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Beautiful World, Where Are You? - SIGNED

Sally Rooney

Faber

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Female Eunuch

Germaine Greer

Macgibbon & Kee

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Schindler's Ark

Thomas Keneally

Hodder and Stoughton

£45.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Terror Of St Trinian's or Angela's Prince Char...

Timothy Shy and Ronald Searle

Max Parrish

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Prostate Gland and Its Enlargement in Old Age...

Decimus Hodgson

John Churchill

£85.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Kommt mit in den Zoo #101612

Anon

No Publisher

£40.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Dutch Treat Club 38th Anniversary #101611

Paul Galilico, Ogden Nash, Herbert Hoover amongst others

Private printing

£50.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories - Spec...

Susanah Clarke

Bloomsbury

£65.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Zaehnsdorfs:1842 -1947 - Craft Bookbinders #10...

Frank Broomhead

Private Libraries Association

£25.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Man #101610

Raymond Briggs - Signed

Julia Macrae

£50.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Smiths, A Light That Never Goes Out

(SIGNED BY MORRISSEY!)

Windmill Books

£375.00

Offered by Quinto Bookshop

FIGHT CLUB (SIGNED)

Palahniuk, Chuck

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

£400.00

Offered by Quinto Bookshop

AUSTERLITZ (SIGNED)

Sebald, W. G.

Hamish Hamilton Ltd

£525.00

Offered by Quinto Bookshop

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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Resources

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