Event Information

We are very pleased to announce our new two-day Premier book fair at Brockholes Nature Reserve at Samlesbury near Preston. 

Around fifty 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 7th July 2023, 12:00 - 17:00 8th July 2023, 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.

Surrealism #101290

Herbert Read (Editor)

Praeger

£15.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The George Mackley Collection. I. Confessions of a...

MACKLEY, George. GRESHAM BOOKS.

Gresham Books

£550.00

Offered by Sophie Schneideman Rare Books

English Lake Scenery.

Walton, Elijah and Bonney, T G.

£1500.00

Offered by A G Cram

THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF THE RENONED DON QUIX...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Folio Society

£350.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MINE ENGINEERING.

G. C. Greenwell

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M. & M. W. Lambert

£495.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

WILLIAM AND THE POP SINGERS

Richmal Crompton

George Newnes Ltd

£100.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

WILLIAM'S BAD RESOLUTION.

Richmal Crompton

George Newnes Ltd

£20.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

Lee Krasner #101278

Robert Hobbs

Independent Curators International

£60.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Chatto & Windus

£175.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Poisonous Plants, Deadly, Dangerous and Suspect #1...

John Nash

Frederick Etchelss & Hugh MacDonald

£800.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Faber and Faber

£100.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Hockney on Photography

Hockney, Paul Joyce

Harmony Books

£95.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Shadows and Other Signs of Life: Anniversary Notes...

Benjamin H.D Buchloh

Walther Konig and Galerie Chantal Crousel

£45.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Three Other Po...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Folio Society

Reserved

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Views of the Old Halls of Lancashire and Cheshire

Philips, N.G.

Henry Gray

£225.00

Offered by Missing Books

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmo...

R.C.H.M.

HMSO

£75.00

Offered by Missing Books

THE NAME OF THE ROSE

ECO, Umberto; translated from the Italian by WEAVER, William:

London: Secker and Warburg.

£650.00

Offered by Lucius Books Ltd

MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN

SASSOON, Siegfried:

London: Faber and Gwyer.

£675.00

Offered by Lucius Books Ltd

HIDDEN FACES. With ‘Postface to Hidden Faces’.

DALI, Salvador:

London: Peter Owen.

£2500.00

Offered by Lucius Books Ltd

I ME MINE

HARRISON, George:

Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd.

£4500.00

Offered by Lucius Books Ltd

The works of Alfred Lord Tennyson poet laureate.

FINE BINDING. Tennyson, Alfred Lord.

London : Macmillan and Co; and New York. 1894.

£275.00

Offered by Roger J Treglown

Plutarch's Morals: translated from the Greek by se...

PLUTARCH.

London: printed by Tho. Braddyll, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster. 1694

£850.00

Offered by Roger J Treglown

Alphabets etc. : for signwriters, decorators, desi...

CLARKE, John M. HEWETT, A. J.

London : Trade Papers Publishing Co; Ltd. 1921 ; 1921 . [1919 ? ] ; [1919 ?]

£300.00

Offered by Roger J Treglown

An Almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCC.XC...

GOLDSMITH, John.

London : printed for the Company of Stationers, and Sold by Robert Horsfield, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street. [ 1797].

£450.00

Offered by Roger J Treglown

Fair Exhibitors

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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.

Peter Doyle Bookbinding

Contact:

Telephone: 01772 623827
Address

Unit 5 Worden Craft Centre
Worden Park
Leyland
Lancashire
PR25 1DJ

Resources

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Floor Plan & Exhibitors

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