Edinburgh Premier (with ABA)
20th Mar 2026, 21st Mar 2026
Event Information
The fair will be opened by collector and scholar Bill Zachs, Director of Blackie House Library and Museum.
Everybody welcome. Admission free.
Please scroll to the bottom of the page to download the floor plan.
Details of all the book fair exhibitors, and other events taking place during the week, can be found at https://rarebooksedinburgh.com/
Key Details
Time & Date 20th March 2026, 12:00 - 19:00 21st March 2026, 10:00 - 16:00
Venue InterContinental Edinburgh The George Hotel, 19-21 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PB
Organisers
Derek Walker, McNaughtan's Bookshop
Tel: 0131 556 5897
Email: info@mcnaughtans.co.uk
Travel Information
Train
10 minute walk from Edinburgh Waverley train station. The tram is a 4-minute walk from St Andrews Square tram stop.
Bus
Bus services 10 & 11 stop right outside, services 9, 13, 23, 27 stop around the corner on Hanover Street.
Bus
Ember coaches from Inverness, Fort William, Aberdeen, and Dundee stop right outside; Edinburgh Bus Station for Megabus, Flixbus, and Citylink services is a 6-minute walk.
Parking
On-street pay & display spaces directly outside (though usually full), a 1,600-space multi-storey car park at the St James Centre is an 8-minute walk, and a further 1,000 spaces are at the Q-Park Omni Greenside Row a 15-minute walk away.
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.
Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books: Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Routledge and Sons, London and New York. Printed in London, from American Plates, by William Clowes and Sons, Limited.
£75.00
Offered by Lanna Antique
A History Maker. Signed and Numbered first edition...
Alasdair Gray
Canongate Press, Edinburgh
£175.00
Offered by Lanna Antique
Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica, or A Collection of t...
A.P. (Anthony Parkinson).
Thomas Smith, Bloomsbury, London
£450.00
Offered by Lanna Antique
Introductio ad veram physicam: Seu lectiones physi...
KEILL, Joanne [John Keill, Savilian Professor of Astronomy]; [CLEMENTS, Henry (publisher)].
Oxoniæ [Oxford]: E theatro Sheldoniano, impensis H. Clements, ad insigne lunæ falcatæ in Cœmeterio D. Pauli Londini [London]
£150.00
Offered by Quair Books
[SCOTTISH INTEREST] Sing-Song: A nursery rhyme boo...
ROSSETTI, Christina G.; HUGHES, Arthur (illustrator); BROTHERS DALZIEL (engravers); [MACLEHOSE, James J.]; [CAMERON, Sir David Young (ex libris design).
London: Macmillan and Co.
£150.00
Offered by Quair Books
The Song of the Cold [Edwin Morgan's copy]
SITWELL, Edith; [MORGAN, Edwin]
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd
£75.00
Offered by Quair Books
First Hymn To Lenin & Other Poems
Hugh McDiarmid
The Unicorn Press
£220.00
Offered by Books Written By
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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Resources
Please find some helpful links below. If you need anything else, do not hesitate to get in touch.
Floor Plan & Exhibitors
Please click on the button below to see the floor plan for this fair.
ExploreFriends of the PBFA
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