Event Information

The book fair returns to Frome again this year, at Cheese & Grain, a restored building which hosts fair, markets and live entertainment.

Around 30 PBFA bookdealers will be offering books, maps, and ephemera for sale.  

Key Details

Time & Date 21st June 2026, 10:00 - 15:00

Venue Cheese & Grain, Market Yard, Justice Lane, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1BE

Organisers William Goodsir Tel: PBFA - 01763 248921 Email: info@pbfa.org
Peter Foster Books Tel: 07759 222916 Email: peterfosterbooks@gmail.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Parking

Car park, 'The Cattle Market', directly outside, operated by Mendip Council.

Driving

Frome is on the A361, 15 miles south of Bath.

Train

Frome station, 0.9 miles, 20 min walk to venue.

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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

Noel Carrington and his Puffin Picture Books - An...

Ian Rogerson

Manchester Polytechnic Library

£20.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Jungle Books - finely bound by Bayntuns of Bat...

Kipling, Rudyard

Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London

£380.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Po...

Palgrave, Francis Turner

Oxford University Press, London

£150.00

Offered by Peter Foster 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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James Hine | James Hine Ilminster

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Karen Jakobsen Art and Design Books | Karen Jakobsen Sturminster Newton

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Kingsbridge Books | Paul Davies Kingsbridge

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Kingswood Books | Anne Rockall Sherborne

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Roo Waterhouse Art | Roo Waterhouse Hebden Bridge

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Stour Bookshop | Tony Butler Sturminster Newton

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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.

Red Hound Bindery
Hand crafted journals, sketchbooks, albums, boxes and stationery as well as traditional calligraphy.

Contact: Hanna Seybold

Alec Thorne, Castle Town Books
I will be bringing a selection of history, literature, fine bindings and bound sets.

Contact:

Telephone: 07887 562622
Address

Castle Town Way
Sherborne
Dorset
DT9 4EA

Pemulis Books, Cloe Ansari

Contact:

Telephone: 07932 833511
Address

Corsham
Wiltshire

Resources

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