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

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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.

Atonement (Signed)

Ian McEwan

Jonathan Cape

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Winston S. Churchill

Cassell and Company Ltd

£260.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Memory Of War: Poems 1968 - 1982 (Signed)

James Fenton

The Salamander Press

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Dreaming (Signed Limited Edition)

Gerald Bullett

Jarrolds Publishers

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Catalogue of Books on Polar Exploration WINTER 202...

Davies, Paul

£0.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

River Out Of Eden; A Darwinian View Of Life

Richard Dawkins

Weidenfield & Nicolson

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Harvill Secker

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A Selection Of Paintings from "The County of Worce...

Kenneth Burton

John Noott and Graham Reeve

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Road to Andorra (Signed)

Shirley Deane

John Murray

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Regeneration

Pat Barker

Viking

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A Kind Of Loving

Stan Barstow

Michael Joseph

£75.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

I Haven't Unpacked: An Autobiography (Signed)

William Holt

Michael Joseph

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

An Interlude With Seagulls (Signed)

Bobby Devlin

Information On Ireland

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Mean Density Of The Earth (Signed)

J.H. Poynting

Charles Griffin & Company Limited

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

London Scene

Seuss, Juergen et al

Buchergilde Gutenberg

£250.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

Sharpe's Gold

Bernard Cornwell

Collins

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Sharpe's Eagle

Bernard Cornwell

Collins

£315.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Ian Hamilton's March

Winston Spencer Churchill

Longmans & Co

£360.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Sense And Sensibility

Jane Austen

Macmillan

£795.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

THE WORLD CRISIS. 1911-1914, 1915, 1916-1918-parts...

CHURCHILL. WINSTON. SPENCER.

Thornton Butterworth Limited. London.

£4000.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

WAR SPEECHES. Into Battle; The Unrelenting struggl...

CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.

Cassell and Company. London.

£2500.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE - DAME. --- Bound with: THE WAR...

HUGO. VICTOR. ---- Reid. Captain Mayne.

Thomas Hodgson. London. 1st work and; J. and C. Brown. London. 2nd work. - No date.

£875.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Roumeli

Patrick Leigh Fermor

John Murray

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Charm of Kashmir (FIRST)

O'Connor, V C Scott

Longmans Green

£125.00

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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Resources

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

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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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