Event Information

We are pleased to say that this is the second time we have held our book fair at this venue, Brockholes Nature Reserve at Samlesbury near Preston.

Around 35 PBFA members will be offering vintage, antiquarian and second-hand books, and other printed material for sale.

FREE parking and admission.  Please click here to see directions to the venue when coming by car.

Image credit Les Price.

Key Details

Time & Date 5th July 2024, 12:00 - 17:00 6th July 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Meadow Lake Suite, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Preston New Road, Samlesbury, Preston, Lancashire, PR5 0AG

Organisers Neil Summersgill Tel: 01254 813559 Email: summersgillbooks@btinternet.com

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Travel Information

Driving

M6, J31

Parking

Free parking on site

Bus

Buses from Preston Bus Station and from Blackburn or Accrington. See www.lancashirebus.co.uk for details.

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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.

Dealing in Deceit: Edwin Pearson of the "Bewick Re...

Tattersfield, Nigel

The Bewick Society

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Works of Shakespear in Six Volumes

William Shakespeare, Edited by William George Clark & William Aldis Wirght

Printed for J. And P. Knapton

£900.00

Offered by Hewett's Books

Through The Dark Continent

Henry M. Stanley

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington

£250.00

Offered by Hewett's Books

A Project of Empire

J. Shield Nicholson

Macmillan And Co., Limited

£175.00

Offered by Hewett's Books

Where Love Is There Is God Also

Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy]

Walter Scott

£115.00

Offered by Hewett's Books

The Golden Bowl

Henry James

Methuen & Co

£115.00

Offered by Hewett's Books

1066 And All That

W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman

Methuen & Co, LTD

£400.00

Offered by Hewett's Books

A Banner for Pegasus

Bonett, John and Emery

Michael Joseph

£70.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Middlemost and the Milltowns: Bourgeois Cultur...

Lewis, Brian

Stanford University Press

£40.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

Atkinson, Diane

Preface

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

My Word is My Bond - signed, limited edition

Moore, Roger

Michael O'Mara Books

£180.00

Offered by C L Hawley

IN A MAGNIFICENT BINDING - 1836 History Of The Cou...

Baines, Edward.

Fisher, Son, & Co

£750.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

Ornithological Dictionary

George Montagu

J. White by T. Bensley

£475.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Elza, Novella del Secolo Decimoterzo bound with La...

Sestini, B [ Bartolomeo Sestini ]

Presso Leonardo Giardetti

£250.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Correspondence Of Charles Darwin. - the first...

Burkhardt, Frederick et al (edit)

Cambridge, at the University Press

£135.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

Borrowed Time

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Grey Walls

£110.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Days of King Arthur

Hanson, Charles Henry

T. Nelson and Sons

£65.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Wordsworth, William

SPCK

£150.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Stories of the Railway

Whitechurch, V. L.

Routledge and Kegan Paul

£22.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Three Famous Toymaker Stories: The Three Toymakers...

Williams, Ursula Moray

Piccolo

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Traditions of Lancashire in Two Volumes

Roby, John

George Routledge and Sons/ L. C. Gent

£125.00

Offered by C L Hawley

A Long Way From Home - signed

Carey, Peter

Faber and Faber

£30.00

Offered by C L Hawley

What Hetty Did or Life and Letters - signed copy

Carr, J. L.

Quince Tree Press

£60.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Signed, limited edition of The Children's Book in...

Byatt, A. S.

Chatto and Windus

£70.00

Offered by C L Hawley

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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Christopher Saunders Books | Christopher Saunders Newnham on Severn

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Literary Cat Books | Kees van Woerkom Machynlleth

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Pete Fry | Peter Fry Grange-over-Sands

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