Event Information

Please note the change of weekend for this year.

The Ilkley Book Fair is a long running and friendly event, kindly sponsored by The Grove Bookshop, Ilkley, and we look forward to seeing customers old and new. 

FREE admission to the fair. 

The King's Hall and Winter Garden venue is conveniently situated opposite the Ilkley train and bus station - an easy level walk from The Grove and central car park.  About fifty dealers will be attending, many from Yorkshire and Lancashire but also from as far afield as Scotland and the south coast, offering thousands of items covering a huge variety of second-hand and antiquarian, fiction, non-fiction and related ephemera for collectors and browsers alike, from pocket money prices and beyond. 

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Time & Date 2nd August 2024, 12:00 - 18:00 3rd August 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue King's Hall & Winter Garden, Station Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8HB

Organisers Louise Harrison, T P Books Tel: 07719 606211 Email: l.harrison539@btinternet.com

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Travel Information

Parking

Town centre car parks

Train

Ilkley station, 2-3 mins walk

Bus

Town centre stops, then 2-3 mins walk

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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.

The all-but dedication copy: Radclyffe Hall at the...

LOVAT DICKSON, [Rache]; [RUBINSTEIN, Michael]; [RUBINSTEIN, Harold]

London and Toronto: Collins

£650.00

Offered by Quair Books

Cumberland Iron - The Story of Hodbarrow Mine 1855...

Harris, A:

Bradford Barton, Truro

£35.00

Offered by The Book House

Mines and Mining in the English Lake District

John Postlethwaite

Michael Moon

£30.00

Offered by The Book House

Watermills of Cumbria

Mike Davies-Shiel

Dalesman

£15.00

Offered by The Book House

Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers. Volume...

Peter Cross-Rudkin & Mike Chrimes

Thomas Telford on behalf of The Institution of Civil Engineers

£80.00

Offered by The Book House

The Websters of Kendal - A North-Western Architect...

Angus Taylor, edited by Janet Martin

Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society

£45.00

Offered by The Book House

The Second Railway King - The Life and Times of Si...

Hodgkins, David

Merton Priory Press

£20.00

Offered by The Book House

Robert Stephenson - The Eminent Engineer

Michael R. Bailey (Editor)

Ashgate

£35.00

Offered by The Book House

The Great Paternalist - The Growth of Nineteenth C...

Reynolds, Jack:

Temple Smith

£10.00

Offered by The Book House

George Carr Glyn - Railwayman and Banker

Hodgkins, David:

Wolffe Press

£35.00

Offered by The Book House

Furness and the Industrial Revolution

Marshall, J. D:

Michael Moon

£40.00

Offered by The Book House

A Game of Hide and Seek

Taylor, Elizabeth

Peter Davies,

£200.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Thrown to the Woolfs

Lehmann, John

Weidenfeld and Nicolson,

£26.00

Offered by C L Hawley

A History of the Ribble Navigation from Preston to...

Barron, James:

Corporation of Preston

£160.00

Offered by The Book House

Liverpool as it was During The Last Quarter of The...

Brooke, Richard.

J. Mawdsley and Son.

£175.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

Circus

Paul Eipper

Routledge

£85.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The private ear & the public eye

Peter Shaffer

Hamish Hamilton

£30.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Dent and Sons

£395.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Witchcraft At The Lamb Inn Bristol

Henry Durbin

Vance Havey

£127.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Trial Of The Lancaster Witches

G. B. Harrison

Pete Davies

£147.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Witchfinder General

Ronald Bassett

Pan books

£275.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Philosophy of Witchcraft

Ian Ferguson

Harrap

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

William Morris Print

William Morris

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

£175.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Wrestliana: or History of the Cumberland and Westm...

Walter Armstrong

Simpkin, Marshall and Co.

£167.00

Offered by Pete Fry

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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Grove Rare Books | Adam Yates Nr Skipton

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G Mosdell, The Junction Bookshop | Glenda Mosdell Llandudno Junction

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Pete Fry | Peter Fry Grange-over-Sands

206

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Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

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Saltmarsh Books | Peter Saltmarsh Chesterfield

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The Book House | Brigid Irwin Northallerton

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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.

Roo Waterhouse Art
Celebrate your life in books with a bespoke 'Shelf Portrait'. Roo Waterhouse’s detailed oil paintings of treasured and iconic books build up a portrait to resonate with your stories and reflect your life and passions. Rather like Desert Island Discs... Which books would you choose?

Contact:

Telephone: 07905 889773
Address

Northlight Art Studios
Valley Road
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6DG

Yardley Books
Specialist: art books and exhibition catalogues, antiquarian books & prints.

Contact: Ed Yardley

Telephone: 07956 024245
Address

2 Rock Hall, Valley Road
Hayfield
High Peak
Derbyshire
SK22 2LP

James Frank

Contact:

Pam & John Finch

Contact:

Resources

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