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
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.

The Papers of William Froude, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S....
William Froude, Sir Westcott Abell & R. W. L. Gawn. Collected and prepared for publication by Captain A. D. Duckworth
The Institution of Naval Architects
£90.00
Offered by The Book House

Religion, Business and Society in North-East Engla...
Anne Orde
Shaun Tyas
£22.00
Offered by The Book House

Ruston & Hornsby Locomotives
Eric S. Tonks
Industrial Railway Society
£30.00
Offered by The Book House

Lead Mining in Derbyshire: History, Development &...
J. H. Rieuwerts
Landmark
£40.00
Offered by The Book House

Burlington Blue-Grey - A History of the Slate Quar...
R. Stanley Geddes
Published by the author
£30.00
Offered by The Book House

Consett Iron 1840 to 1980 - A Study in Industrial...
Kenneth Warren
Clarendon Press at Oxford
£35.00
Offered by The Book House

The British Brewing Industry 1830-1980
T. R. Gourvish & R. G. Wilson
Cambridge University Press
£50.00
Offered by The Book House

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

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
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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