Dorchester - New to calendar
25th Oct 2025
Event Information
The fair coincides with the final day of the Dorchester Literary Festival - a great end to a week packed with author talks and events, which has become a calendar staple for bibliophiles on the South Coast.
PBFA members will be offering antiquarian & second hand books, modern firsts, signed editions, prints, maps and ephemera.
Why not make a day of it and couple your visit with a tour of the Dorset Museum and Art Gallery, including Thomas Hardy’s study and special collections library.
With parking available, a cafe on site and a bustling town centre location, we look forward to this new chapter for the fair.
Key Details
Time & Date 25th October 2025, 10:00 - 16:00
Venue Dorset Museum, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA
Organisers
Endpaper Books
Tel: 07907 302891
Email: info@endpaperbooks.co.uk
Ticket Information
Admission £ 1.00
Travel Information
Parking
’Top O Town’ Car Park, DT1 1XT, What3words - protrude.guessing.swan; ’Colliton Park' Car Park, DT1 1XJ, What3words - Tricky.sung.obstinate; ‘Acland Road’ Car Park, DT1 1EE, What3words - grunt.slipping.popped
Bus
There is a bus stop directly in front of the venue - for direct routes from Yeovil, Weymouth, Lyme Regis, Bridport and local connections.
Train
Dorchester South Train Station is 0.6miles from the Venue - for direct routes from London, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth. Dorchester West Train Station is 0.5miles from the Venue - for direct routes from Bath, Bristol and Frome.
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.
Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants
Mrs Loudon. Gordon Don and David Wooster
Longmans Green and Co.
£55.00
Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector
The Jolly Jump-Ups and their New House.
Geraldine Clyn
McLoughlin Bros Inc Springfield Mass.
£20.00
Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector
Raggedy Ann and Andy
Julian Wehr
Saalfield Publishing Co Akron Ohio
£20.00
Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector
The Flesh in the Mirror. First Edition.
Felicien Marceau
Vision Press London.
£14.00
Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector
Porky Pig and His Gang. ''Porky of the Mounties''
Not Credited
Whitman Publishing Wisconsin
£15.00
Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector
The Bull Calf and Other Tales
A.B.Frost
John C. Nimmo London.
£14.00
Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector
FABLES. WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND EMBELLISHED...
John Gay
London, printed for John Stockdale,
£250.00
Offered by Graham York Rare Books
Now We Are Six | 1st Edition / 1st Impression 1927
A.A Milne
Methuen
£500.00
Offered by Endpaper Books
The House at Pooh Corner | 1st Edition / 1st Impre...
A.A Milne
Methuen
£500.00
Offered by Endpaper Books
Chapter House Dune | Signed First Edition/First Im...
Frank Herbert
Victor Gollancz
£1249.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
The Tales of Beedle The Bard | Signed First Editio...
J. K. Rowling
Bloomsbury
£1499.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
Winnie the Pooh | 1926 1st Edition / 1st Impressi...
A. A. Milne
Methuen
£1199.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
Eleven Poems | First Edition/Second Impression (UK...
Seamus Heaney
Festival Publications, Queen’s University, Belfast
£1999.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
The Carpet People | Signed by Sir Terry Pratchett...
Sir Terry Pratchett
Colin Smythe Gerrards Cross
£2499.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
Wolf Hall Trilogy | Signed, Lined & Dated | 1st E...
Hilary Mantel
Harper Collins
£2499.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Signed 1st Edi...
J.K Rowling
Bloomsbury
£3499.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
Nineteen Eighty Four. First Edition/First Impressi...
George Orwell
Secker & Warburg
£3499.99
Offered by Endpaper Books
HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF CORFE CASTLE, IN THE IS...
Thomas Bond.
London, Edward Stanford
£45.00
Offered by Graham York Rare Books
COMITATUS DORCESTRIA. VULGO ANGLICE DORSETSHIRE
Jansson
Jansson, Amsterdam
£500.00
Offered by Graham York Rare Books
SOME DORSET MANOR HOUSES: WITH THEIR LITERARY AND...
Sidney Heath and W. De C. Prideaux.
London, Bemrose and Sons Limited,
£100.00
Offered by Graham York Rare Books
ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS ENGLAND....
Anon
Her Majesty's Stationery Office,
£100.00
Offered by Graham York Rare 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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Guest Exhibitors
We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.
The Thomas Hardy Society
Contact: Miranda Woodgate
c/o Kingston Mauward College
Dorchester
Dorset
DT2 9PX
Lymelight Books
Contact: Nigel Cozens
Iona Galbraith Rare Books
Contact: Iona Jenkins
Gallery
Some of our Members have taken some lovely photographs of past fairs, have a look at them below.
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Resources
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