Event Information

The fair is again being held at the InterContinental Edinburgh The George Hotel where members of the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA) will be offering antiquarian and second-hand books, maps and other printed material for sale.

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

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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.

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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.

Limited Edition Fine Art Prints

RooWaterhouse Art

£180.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

'007'

Roo Waterhouse

Original Oil Painting

£1600.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

'Portico Library'

Roo Waterhouse

Original Oil Painting

£2800.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

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

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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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Roo Waterhouse Art | Roo Waterhouse Hebden Bridge

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Resources

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Floor Plan & Exhibitors

Please click on the button below to see the floor plan for this fair.

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