Event Information

Due to circumstances beyond our control the fair has had to move from the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury and will now be held at the Novotel Hotel in Hammersmith

The marvellous PBFA Christmas Book Fair is a must for book lovers, collectors, and gift buyers alike! Thousands of second-hand books, rare manuscripts, vintage prints and posters, original artworks, and ephemera will be on offer from some of the best independent sellers across the country.

At the fair find gems across a myriad of subjects and genres – secondhand, rare and unusual – priced to suit every pocket.

Everyone welcome. 

Refreshments available at the cafe.

Please scroll to the bottom to download the floor plan.

Key Details

Time & Date 7th December 2025, 10:00 - 15:30

Venue Novotel London West Hotel, 1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London, W6 8DR

Organisers Steven Morris Tel: PBFA Office - 01763 248921 Email: info@pbfa.org

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 2.00

Travel Information

Parking

Some parking on site. May be charged for - TBC.

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Underground

Piccadilly, District and Hammersmith & City lines are within 3 minutes' 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.

Uganda to Khartoum

Albert B Lloyd

Fisher T Unwin

£75.00

Offered by Books Written By

Selected Poems - Signed

Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes

Faber and Faber Limited

£150.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Selected Poems 1957 - 1967 - Signed

Ted Hughes

Faber and Faber Limited

£275.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

Doubleday & Co, Garden City, New York.

£390.00

Offered by Shanachie Rare Books

Invaders from the Dark

Greye le spina

Arkham House

£110.00

Offered by Shanachie Rare Books

The Children Act - Signed

Ian McEwan

Jonathan Cape

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Art & Outrage

Henry Miller

Putnam

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Aller Retour New York

Henry Miller

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Red Notebook

Henry Miller

Jargon Books

£45.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Chronicles of Narnia (boxed set).

C.S. Lewis

The Folio Society

£275.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Waiting for Godot

samuel Beckett

Faber & Faber

£825.00

Offered by Shanachie Rare Books

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

The Viking Press

£825.00

Offered by Shanachie Rare Books

A Book Of Mediterranean Food

Elizabeth David

John Lehmann Ltd

£400.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

French Country Cooking

Elizabeth David

John Lehmann Ltd

£240.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Waiting For Godot

Samuel Beckett

Faber

£180.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

My Friend Tree

Loraine Niedecker

Wild Hawthorn Press

£360.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Pageant of Great Women

Cicely Hamilton

The Suffrage Shop

£600.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Nature of Gothic; A Chapter of the Stones of V...

John Ruskin

The Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, and published by George Allen, Temple Bar, London, and Sunnyside, Orpington.

£2700.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

An original, handmade Christmas decoration showing...

VAN SANDWYK, Charles

Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts

£120.00

Offered by Fold The Corner Books

The Quantum Universe

COX, Brian & Jeff FORSHAW

Allen Lane

£295.00

Offered by Fold The Corner Books

His Dark Materials [comprising] Northern Lights, T...

PULLMAN, Philip.

Scholastic Children’s Books/David Fickling Books

£2500.00

Offered by Fold The Corner Books

The Moon Hoax; a Discovery that the Moon has a Vas...

LOCKE, Richard Adams

William Gowans

£450.00

Offered by Fold The Corner Books

The Astrologer’s Magazine; and Philosophical Misce...

[ASTROLOGY]

Printed for W. Locke

£450.00

Offered by Fold The Corner Books

The Principles of Critical Philosophy

KANT, Emmanuel; James Sigismund BECK

Sold by J. Johnson, W. Richardson; Edinburgh: P. Hill, Manners and Miller; Hamburg: B. G. Hoffman

£3000.00

Offered by Fold The Corner 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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Claremont Books and Prints | Suzanne & Gordon Leete Market Harborough

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Ian Marr Rare Books | Ian Marr Edinburgh

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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