London Rare & Antiquarian Book Fair

17th May 2025, 18th May 2025

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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.

Fair 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 to download the floor plan and exhibitor list.

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Key Details

Time & Date 17th May 2025, 13:00 - 19:00 18th May 2025, 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

Underground0

Underground

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.

A Course of Lectures on Elocution (FIRST EDITION)

Sheridan, Thomas

W. Strahan

£375.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

A TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT-...

William Forsyth, F.A.S. and F.S.A. Gardener to His Majesty at Kensington and St. James's, Member of the Œconomical Society at St. Petersburg, &c. &c.

London, Printed by Nichols and Son, Red-Lion Passage, Fleet-Street, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row; T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Strand; and J. Debrett, Piccadilly,

£300.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

Screenplay for planned adaptation of The Lord of t...

BOORMAN, John and PALLENBERG, Rospo [TOLKIEN, J R R]

Printed by Scripts Ltd

Reserved

Offered by Rainford & Parris

Tailor’s bill for his WWI uniform, 1914; Wheatley...

WHEATLEY, Dennis

£550.00

Offered by Rainford & Parris

Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis being the Fossil Zoololgy...

FALCONER, Hugh and CAUTLEY, Proby T

Smith Elder & Co.

£3750.00

Offered by Rainford & Parris

Manuale Tipografico del Cavaliere Giambattista Bod...

BODONI (Giambattista)

Parma: Presso la Vedova,

£14750.00

Offered by Forest Books

Pomona Austriaca, ou Arbres Fruitiers d’Autriche

UNIQUE COPY OF THE RAREST POMONA

£25000.00

Offered by Peter Hill

ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND

PRESENTATION COPY

£8500.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

The British Emancipator. Under the Sanction of the...

[BRITISH EMANCIPATOR]

London. Printed and Published by John Haddon.

£3750.00

Offered by Antiquates Ltd

A Journal of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship...

[MORRIS, Henry Gage]

[s.i.], [s.n.]

£6250.00

Offered by Antiquates Ltd

The athenians being correspondence between thomas...

[SHELLEY, Percy B.] SCOTT, Walter Sidney.

[London]. The Golden Cockerel Press

£4500.00

Offered by Antiquates Ltd

[A lively and extensive journal of a tour of milit...

[YORKE, Victor].

[s.i.], [s.n.]

£1500.00

Offered by Antiquates Ltd

Old Times (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

Pinter, Harold

Methuen

£175.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female E...

Jacob Bouten

H.J. Paris V H Firma A.H. Kruyt, Amsterdam.

£500.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Lord Dunsany

G.P. Putnam's Sons, London New York

£400.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Northern Nejd. Journey from Jerusalem to Aneizah i...

Guarmani, Carlo.

Cairo: Government Press

£16500.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

The Halsewell Tragedy 1786 - Unpublished Poetry Ma...

Sophia Ricketts

£750.00

Offered by De Bry Rare Books

Ethel and Ernest (SIGNED)

Briggs, Raymond

Jonathan Cape

£60.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

'Moonraker' souvenir film brochure

Swan, Stephen

Sackville Design

£30.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Churchill and War ; My Early Life, My African Jou...

Churchill, Winston Spencer

Library of Imperial History

£70.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Woven Silks and Rayons. January 1969, Year 1969 -...

Bilbille & Co. -- Swatch Book.

Bilbille & Co. Paris.

£250.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Woven Silks and Rayons. February 1969, Year 1969 -...

Bilbille & Co. -- Swatch Book.

Bilbille & Co. Paris.

£250.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

The Worst Journey in the World

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

Constable

£775.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

The Voyage of the 'Scotia' (FIRST)

Brown, Robert Rudmose, Robert Mossman and Harvey Pirie

William Blackwood

£725.00

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.

Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Ltd.

Contact:

Telephone: 07810 718791
Address

Brighton
East Sussex

Resources

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

Download Complimentary Ticket

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Floor Plan & Exhibitors

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