Ilkley
25th Jul 2025, 26th Jul 2025
Event Information
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. Around thirty 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.
We are delighted to announce that the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards will be at the fair on Friday afternoon. Martin’s novels include the Rachel Savernake books, most recently Hemlock Bay, and the forthcoming Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife. His non-fiction includes The Golden Age of Murder and The Life of Crime. He has received three Daggers (including the CWA Diamond Dagger), two Edgars, and lifetime achievement awards for his fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and scholarship. He is consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics and President of the Detection Club. https://martinedwardsbooks.com
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Key Details
Time & Date 25th July 2025, 12:00 - 18:00 26th July 2025, 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
Travel Information
Parking
Town centre car parks
Train
Ilkley station, 2-3 mins walk
Bus
Town centre stops, then 2-3 mins walk
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.
Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Buria...
J.R. Mortimer. With over 1000 Illustrations from Drawings by Agnes Mortimer.
A. Brown & Sons, Limited, London, and at Hull, and York
£300.00
Offered by Lanna Antique
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in...
Frances Anne Kemble
Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York
£175.00
Offered by Lanna Antique
For the Flag. First British edition.
Jules Verne, translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.
Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, London.
£275.00
Offered by Lanna Antique
Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Rel...
Harrison, Jane
Merlin Press
£15.00
Offered by C L Hawley
The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
De Quincey, Thomas
Walter Scott
£26.00
Offered by C L Hawley
T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form
Julius, Anthony
Thames & Hudson
£14.00
Offered by C L Hawley
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 of North Eastern Railway Architecture -...
Bill Fawcett
North Eastern Railway Association
£95.00
Offered by The Book House
My Wife Melissa First Edition
Francis Durbridge
King Crime Hodder and Staughton
£55.00
Offered by T P Books
“A CRIME IN ANY COUNTRY”
LIBERAL PARTY UK
Liberal publication department
£25.00
Offered by Black Cat Bookshop
Memorial Service for Elizabeth David CBE 1913-1992
David, Elizabeth / John Minton
Sheppard Day Associates Ltd.,
£250.00
Offered by C L Hawley
Blind Jack of Knaresboro’ ( life of John Metcalf)
Unknown author
J.Johnson. Kirkgate . Leeds . Yorkshire
£48.00
Offered by Black Cat Bookshop
AGATHA CHRISTIE -A very elusive woman
Lucy worsley -SIGNED 1st
Hodder & Stoughton
£60.00
Offered by Black Cat Bookshop
Shelley and the Apprehension of Life
Wilson, Ross
Cambridge University Press
£30.00
Offered by C L Hawley
The Music of Verse: Metrical Experiment in Ninetee...
Phelan, Joseph
Palgrave MacMillan
£30.00
Offered by C L Hawley
Cranford. 1st. Edn. Thus.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell
Macmillan. London
£195.00
Offered by Black Cat Bookshop
A descriptive catalogue of the Glass Vessels in th...
NESBITT, Arthur. South Kensington Museum.
Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty , ....
£65.00
Offered by Roger J Treglown
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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Guest Exhibitors
We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.
Dales & Sagas Books
Contact: Emma Atkinson
7 Dale Way
Leyburn
DL8 5LE
Buffin Biff Books
Contact: Anthony Costello
29 Grove Crescent
Luddendenfoot
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX2 6NP
Gallery
Some of our Members have taken some lovely photographs of past fairs, have a look at them below.
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