Event Information

The biggest and best book fair on the south coast is back! This is our fourth year and the Brighton Book Fair is now a favourite with dealers and collectors alike. This year’s event promises to be bigger than ever and if you have not visited us before then you’re in for a treat – it’s like a massive second-hand bookshop coming to town for just one day!  

The main hall up at the Racecourse will be packed with lovely old books, maps, prints, posters, postcards, ephemera and more. You’ll find everything from ancient handwritten documents to kitschy paperbacks. There’s something to suit all tastes and all pockets.

Brighton Racecourse is the perfect venue. It is on the edge of town so driving is easy and there is free parking all day long. There is also a great café and snack bar so you can make a day of it.  Please get in touch with the organiser, Jeremy Carson of The Antiquarian Book Company, for more details or see our facebook page at brightonbookfair.

Key Details

Time & Date 25th October 2025, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9XZ

Organisers Jeremy Carson, The Antiquarian Book Company Tel: 07769 318895 Email: jeremy@antiquarianbookcompany.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Parking

Free parking for over 900 vehicles.

Driving

Brighton Racecourse is easy to reach from the A27 Brighton bypass. If you are approaching Brighton on the A23 you need to go east on the A27. Head for signs directing you to Sussex University and take the B2123 to Woodingdean, turn right at the traffic lights and the Racecourse is approximately one mile on your left-hand side. If you're coming from the seafront head for the Brighton Palace Pier before driving eastbound along Marine Parade. Turn left at the first set of lights into Lower Rock Gardens. Turn right at the second set of lights into Edward Street, then first left into Freshfield Road. The Racecourse is at the top of the hill.

Train

Brighton is less than an hour from London by train and there are services from Victoria, London Bridge and Kings Cross. There are also frequent coastway services operating from Eastbourne, Lewes, Hastings, Worthing and Portsmouth.

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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.

Pictures

Mapplethorpe, Robert

Arena Editions

£70.00

Offered by Missing Books

Early Works 1970-1974

Mapplethorpe, Robert

Robert Miller

£100.00

Offered by Missing Books

Will Roberts RCA - Drawings

Joyner, Paul (ed)

National Library of Wales

£75.00

Offered by Missing Books

Poems of the Pillow and other stories by Utamro, H...

Calza, Gian Carlo

Phaidon

£85.00

Offered by Missing Books

Certain People: a book of portraits

Mapplethorpe, Robert

Twelvetrees

£50.00

Offered by Missing Books

From convent to concert hall- a guide to women com...

Sylvia Glickman & Martha F schleifer

Greenwood press. Westpost, Connecticut & London

£65.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Punk’s Dead

Simon Barker

Divus ( six) Prague

£30.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

A retrospective

Astrid Kirchherr

Victoria gallery & museum. Liverpool university press

£95.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The British press & Nazi Germany- reporting from t...

Kylie Galbraith

Bloomsbury academic

£75.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The APACHE GIRL

ARTHUR MILLS

COLLINS

£65.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

PATSY'S REFLECTIONS-LEARN TO COOK BY PICTURES

'PATSY'

MIRROR FEATURES

£65.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Between friends- letters of Vera Brittain & Winifr...

Elaine & English Showalter

Virago

£15.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

“A CRIME IN ANY COUNTRY”

LIBERAL PARTY UK

Liberal publication department

£25.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

“IT’S YOUR FOOD WE WANT TO TAX”

LIBERAL PARTY

Liberal publication department

£25.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

AGATHA CHRISTIE -A very elusive woman

Lucy worsley -SIGNED 1st

Hodder & Stoughton

£60.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Trajan Inscription: An Essay by Edward M Catic...

Edward M Catich

The Society of Printers

£180.00

Offered by Books Written By

Riddley Walker (Signed, Limited edition)

Hoban, Russell (illus Quentin Blake)

Folio Society

£250.00

Offered by Missing Books

Fifty Fables of La Fontaine (Limited edition)

Fontaine, Jean de la (illus Quentin Blake)

Folio Society

£350.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses (Ltd edition)

Apuleius (illus Quentin Blake)

Folio Society

£375.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Brighton Pavilion and its Royal Associations

Bishop, John Geo.

Brighton Town Council

£25.00

Offered by Missing Books

History of Brighthelmston, or Brighton as I view i...

Erredge, John Ackerson

Observer Office

£25.00

Offered by Missing Books

Sussex in the First World War

Grieves, Keith

Sussex Record Society

£25.00

Offered by Missing Books

Cassell's Topographical Guides: The County of Suss...

anon

Cassell, Petter and Galpin

£60.00

Offered by Missing Books

An Account of the Sussex Election, held at Chiches...

anon

W. Mason

£150.00

Offered by Missing 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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Hewett's Books | Luke Hewett Liverpool

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Love Rare Books | Deborah Davis St Leonards On Sea

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Missing Books | Chris Missing Chelmsford

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Mayfly | John Martin & C G Martin Eastbourne

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Robert Hall Pictures | Robert Hall St Leonards on Sea

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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.

Simon Hunter Antique Maps
Interesting, unusual and inexpensive antique maps of all parts of the world.

Contact:

Telephone: 07426 422113
Address

21 St John's Road
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 2FB

Brighton & Hove Stuff, Andy Garth

Contact:

Telephone: 07774 272594
Address

Rose Cottage, Church Lane
Newtimber
Hassocks
West Sussex
BN6 9BT

James Pennington, Aloes Books

Contact:

Telephone: 07971 268844
Address

110 Mount View Road
London
N4 4JX

Resources

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