Event Information

CHANGE OF VENUE - The book fair will now be held in The Corn Exchange, due to building works at the museum, the original venue.  The Corn Exchange is a minute's walk from the museum.

The fair coincides with the Dorchester Literary Festival - a great week packed with author talks and events, which has become a calendar staple for bibliophiles on the south coast.

At the book fair PBFA members will be offering antiquarian, vintage and second hand books, modern firsts, signed editions, prints, maps and ephemera.

With parking available, a cafe on site and a bustling town centre location, we look forward to continuing this new chapter for the fair. 

Key Details

Time & Date 24th October 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1HF

Organisers Endpaper Books Tel: 07907 302891 Email: info@endpaperbooks.co.uk

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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 0.6 miles 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.

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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.

Worthington Brewery Advertising Booklets

Unknown

The Bass Museum

£20.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Elizabeth David Ltd Catalogue 1968-9

Unknown

Elizabeth David Ltd

£35.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Ceremonial

HMSO

HMSO

£20.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Pen Portraits

A. P. H.

Guinness

£45.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Fancy Meeting You!

Fougasse & McCullough

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

£25.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Beau Brummell Was Right

James Laver

Moss Bros

£20.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Delinquent Equine

R. S. Summerhayes

Moss Bros.

£25.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Ah Middlesex

John Betjeman

Warren Editions

£110.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The First Eighteen Months

Bureau of Current Affairs

Penguin

£28.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Miscellany 13 - Lost Causes

Steve Hare (Ed)

Penguin Collectors Society

£25.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Private Angelo

Eric Linklater

Privately Printed

£30.00

Offered by Topeka Books

For Shop Use Only

Eric Ravilious

Garton & Co

£75.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Insect Life

C A Ealand

A & C Black

£50.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Through Shen-Kan

Robert Sterling Clark & Arthur de Sowerby

T Fisher Unwin

£120.00

Offered by Topeka Books

An Essay on the Military Architecture of the Middl...

E. Viollet-Le-Duc

J. H. and J. Parker, Oxford and London

£50.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Manual of Military Law

War Office

HMSO

£30.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Unfortunates

B. S. Johnson

Panther Books in association with Secker and Warburg

£170.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Introductions, Notes and Illustrations to the Nove...

No author named - Possibly Sir Walter Scott

Robert Cadell, Edinburgh & Whittaker and Co. London

£200.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Sidelights on Relativity

Albert Einstein

Methuen

£200.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Field Exercises and Evolutions of Infantry

Her Majesty's Command

HMSO

£150.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Typographica 5 - Penguins on the March

Herbert Spencer

Penguin Collectors Society

£50.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Death Is No Sportsman

Cyril Hare

Faber & Faber

£50.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The 1929 Christmas Tree

Various including Edward Ardizzone, Lucie Attwell, E F Benson, John Drinkwater,

Ernest Benn

£40.00

Offered by Topeka 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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Chris Crook | Chris Crook Weston-super-Mare

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Karen Jakobsen Art and Design Books | Karen Jakobsen Sturminster Newton

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Kingswood Books | Anne Rockall Sherborne

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Nangle Rare Books | Julian Nangle Dorchester

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Stour Bookshop | Tony Butler Sturminster Newton

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Resources

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