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.

The Great War (3 Vols)

Winston S. Churchill

George Newnes Limited

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Jonathan Cape

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Ulysses

James Joyce

John Lane, The Bodley Head

£295.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

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

Mansfield Park (2 Vols)

Jane Austen

J.M. Dent & Co

£200.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

[Small archive of canine photography-related corre...

[TROUBRIDGE, Una & CHANDLER, Pamela].

£250.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Eight Volumes of Interwar European Travelogues, c...

[MERRY, Ida & Harvey Guy].

£475.00

Offered by Quair Books

Orchard and Vineyard.

SACKVILLE-WEST, V.[ita]; [COOK, Edith Bessie]; [WHEELER, Edward J. (ex libris design)].

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd

£135.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Autograph album featuring interwar theatrical sig...

[NOVELLO, Ivor]; [SHIELDS, Ella (Burlington Bertie from Bow)]; [OGLESBY, Hilda aka “Whiskey”].

£275.00

Offered by Quair Books

Selma Lagerlöf: Her life and work. Adapted from th...

BERENDSOHN, Walter A.; TIMPSON, George F. (translator); SACKVILLE-WEST, V. (Preface); [DATALLER, Roger (pseud. of Arthur EAGLESTONE]].

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd

£75.00

Offered by Quair Books

Lives of the fellows of the Royal college of surge...

Signed by president of Royal College. Various authors.

E& S Livingstone & Pitman medical

£195.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Police: Second report from the select committee

House of commons committee 1853

House of Commons

£195.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

William Burgess and the high Victorian dream.

Crook. J. Mordaunt

France’s Lincoln limited.

£95.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Great Edwardian gardens of Harold Peto

Whaley. Robin

Aurum press. London

£45.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Scottish Country house

James Knox

Thames and Hudson. London

£45.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Gothic for the steam age- George Gilbert Scott ill...

Stamp. Gavin

Aurum press. London

£65.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Scottish Students Song Book

Various

Bailey & Ferguson. London & Glasgow

£45.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Last Puritan

George Santayana

Constable

£295.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Cosmological Eye

Henry Miller

New Directions

£295.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A Place Of Greater Safety

Hilary Mantel

Viking

£175.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A History Of The English-Speaking Peoples

Winston S. Churchill

The Educational Book Company Limited

£360.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Thomas The Tank Engine

The Rev. W. Awdry

Edmund Ward

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

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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