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London International Antiquarian Book Fair

20th May 2023, 21st May 2023

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Event Information

One of our largest premier antiquarian book fairs featuring almost a hundred UK and international booksellers showcasing rare books, maps, prints, ephemera, collector items and more to suit all pockets.  There will be a range of specialisms, from Modern First Editions, Children’s Literature, History, Travel, Sport,  and Religion, to name but a few.

The fair is kindly sponsored by Forum Auctions. 

FREE admission, but you can download the "complimentary ticket" with the fair details.  
Refreshments available at the venue.

Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the link to the floor plan.

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Key Details

Time & Date 20th May 2023, 13:00 - 19:00 21st May 2023, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue ILEC Conference Centre, IBIS London Earls Court, 47 Lillie Road, London, SW6 1UD

Organisers Hereward Books Tel: 01353 740821 Email: sales@herewardbooks.co.uk

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Travel Information

Train

West Brompton - 5 minute walk to Ibis London Earls Court

Train

Earls Court underground

Driving

The venue is a quarter of a mile (400m) from the A4, providing easy access to the M4, M5 and M40

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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.

Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...

CROCKER, Thomas Crofton

John Murray, London

£600.00

Offered by Rainford & Parris

Original Signed Illustration

SEARLE, Ronald

£400.00

Offered by Rainford & Parris

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900

QUILLER-COUCH. Arthur [ed.]

Clarendon Press, Oxford

£1750.00

Offered by Rainford & Parris

Who was the original of Lucia?

[E.F. BENSON]

£380.00

Offered by Peter Hill

Extensive archive including letters from Robert Gr...

IAN MACKENZIE - WORLD WAR ONE POET

£5250.00

Offered by Peter Hill

Autograph Letter with first draft of his poem "The...

ROBERT GRAVES

£3500.00

Offered by Peter Hill

The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmore, in the De...

WOOD (Robert)

London: [Published for the Author],

£7500.00

Offered by Forest Books

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrima...

Haruki Murakami

Harvill Secker

£1750.00

Offered by Deep Neutral Books

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD.

DICKENS, Charles:

London: Bradbury & Evans.

£450.00

Offered by Sky Duthie Rare Books

THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE, KT...

[GRABHORN PRESS]; MANDEVILLE, Sir John:

[San Francisco: Grabhorn Press]. New York: Random House.

£1250.00

Offered by Sky Duthie Rare Books

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Jonathan Cape

£600.00

Offered by Deep Neutral Books

MATHEMATICS AND THE IMAGINATION

KASNER, Edward; and NEWMAN, James; illustrated by ISAACS, Rufus:

New York: Simon and Schuster.

£150.00

Offered by Sky Duthie Rare Books

LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY HERBARIUM CONTAINING ANNOT...

RICKARDS, O. B.:

[Original manuscript].

£650.00

Offered by Sky Duthie Rare Books

ANATOMY EPITOMIZED AND ILLUSTRATED:

M. N. , B.A. [GIBSON, Thomas (attrib.)]:

London: Printed for John Noon, at the White Hart, near Mercers-Chapel, in Cheapside.

£875.00

Offered by Sky Duthie Rare Books

No Country For Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Alfred A. Knopf

£1500.00

Offered by Deep Neutral Books

SAEMMTLICHE TRUPPEN VON EUROPA IN CHARACTERISTISCH...

ECKERT, H. A.; MONTEN, D.:

Würzburg: Christian Weiss.

£1475.00

Offered by Sky Duthie Rare Books

The Sherston Trilogy; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man...

Siegfried Sassoon

Faber & Gwyer/ Faber & Faber

£1500.00

Offered by Deep Neutral Books

MID NINETEENTH-CENTURY APOTHECARY'S MANUSCRIPT REC...

[CHEMISTRY]:

[Original manuscript].

£450.00

Offered by Sky Duthie Rare Books

The Ascent of Nanda Devi

Tilman, HW

Cambridge University Press

£75.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Through The First Antarctic Night

Cook, Frederick A

Doubleday and McClure

£1750.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Sinking of the 'Titanic'

Mowbray, Jay Henry

Minter Company

£145.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Titanic Memorial card

ANON

East London Printing Company

£75.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Pompeii

ANON

Library of Entertaining Knowledge: Charles Knight

£60.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason of 1605

Lathbury, Rev Thomas

John W Parker

£65.00

Offered by Kingsbridge 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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Guest Exhibitors

We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.

Olivier Joly

Contact:

Telephone: 07747 085089
Address

14 Chadwell Street
London
EC1R 1XD

Resources

Please find some helpful links below. If you need anything else, do not hesitate to get in touch.

Download Complimentary Ticket

Have a ticket on us! Just click the download button below and print out this ticket - do not forget to bring it with you to the fair.

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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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