Event Information

This popular book fair is held in the centre of this Leicestershire market town, with over 20 book dealers selling second-hand, rare and antiquarian books, maps, prints and ephemera.  Come and say hello - everybody welcome!  

Full range of refreshments available.

The second fair of the year here will be on Tuesday 30th December. 

Key Details

Time & Date 3rd May 2025, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Congregational Church Centre, High Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7JD

Organisers Phil Woolley, Black Cat Bookshop Tel: 07850 795207 Email: blackcatuk@aol.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Train

Just under a mile from Market Harborough railway station

Driving

A4304 is the nearest major trunk route

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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.

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM THE LARRY GAINS STORY SIGNED...

MAX SCHMELING

LEISURE

£65.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

The Carpenter and Joiner Stair Builder and Hand-Ra...

Robert Riddell

William Mackenzie

£180.00

Offered by Fiona Edwards

The Kings cabinet opened; or, certain packets of s...

English Civil War

Robert Bostock

£700.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Canticum canticorum Salomonis quod Hebraice dicitu...

Eric Gill

Harry Graf Kessler - the Cranach Press

£1250.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Observations sur les antiquites d'Herculanum avec...

Cochin & Bellicard

£195.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Arguments for the Sake of Heaven: Emerging Trends...

Jonathan Sacks

Jason Aronson, Inc.

£60.00

Offered by Books Written By

Familiar Wild Flowers: First to Fifth Series with...

F Edward Hulme

Cassell and Company

£50.00

Offered by Books Written By

Official Railway Map of the Derbyshire & Nottingha...

Railway Clearing House

Railway Clearing House

£95.00

Offered by The Book House

Memorials of Old Leicestershire

Alice Dryden (Editor)

George Allen

£25.00

Offered by The Book House

The Epitaphs in the Graveyard and Chapel of the Gr...

Alfred Henry Paget

Clarke & Satchell, Leicester

£45.00

Offered by The Book House

Historical Sketch of Some of the Principal Works a...

John Storey

W. H. Lead, Leicester

£20.00

Offered by The Book House

History of Sapcote, in the County of Leicester

Rev. Henry Whiteley

J. R. Rowe, Leicester

£35.00

Offered by The Book House

CLOUGHIE WALKING ON WATER SIGNED BY BRIAN CLOUGH

JOHN SADLER

HEADLINE

£45.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

Fallback item for books

BODIES FROM THE LIBRARY X6

COLLINS CRIME CLUB

COLLINS

£40.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

Architecture of the Renaissance in England: illust...

Gotch, John Alfred

B. T. Batsford

£250.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Daily Telegraph - The Sixties - a chronicle of...

Holloway, David (ed)

Simon & Schuster

£10.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Daily Telegraph - The Fifties - a unique chron...

Holloway, David (ed)

Simon & Schuster

£10.00

Offered by Missing Books

Bonner VC - the biography of Gus Bonner: VC and Ma...

Satterthwaite, Sue

S. R. Print Management

£10.00

Offered by Missing Books

2 cloth Nene Valley self raising flour bags from t...

Westley Bros & Clark Ltd

£30.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Triolets

Jack Woolgar

Toni Savage - New Broom Press

£25.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The Sword of Honour Trilogy - Men at Arms (1952) -...

Evelyn Waugh

Chapman and Hall

£85.00

Offered by Books Written By

The Royal Natural History

Richard Lydekker (Edited by)

Frederick Warne & Co

£295.00

Offered by Books Written By

Letters from Australia in the British Press 1790-1...

Moore, Peter (Compiler/Editor).

Peter Moore Bookseller, Cambridge UK.

£12.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Pictorial History Of South Africa

Anthony Preston

Magna Books, Leicester

£50.00

Offered by Defoe 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.

Exhibitors A-Z

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Books

C

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Claremont Books and Prints | Suzanne & Gordon Leete Market Harborough

84

D

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Books

F

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Fiona Edwards | Fiona Edwards Mansfield

87

H

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

I

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

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Images in Print | Jane Jaques Nottingham

0

J

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

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L

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Lasting Words Ltd | Sean Wood Northampton

1

Literary Cat Books | Kees van Woerkom Machynlleth

10

M

Name & Trading Name

Showing 4 Results

Name

Books

David Maynard | David Maynard Grantham

64

M & P Books | Peter Allen Buxton

251

Missing Books | Chris Missing Chelmsford

460

P

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Peter Moore | Peter Moore Cambridge

484

R

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Showing 1 Results

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Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

96

Stephen Rench | Stephen Rench Shipston on Stour

48

T

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

The Book House | Brigid Irwin Northallerton

96

Y

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Yardley Books | Bob Yardley Chesterfield

53

Guest Exhibitors

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

Steve Jayes
Books and ephemera.

Contact:

Telephone: 07847 144845
Address

48 Hawksbury Road
Leicester
LE2 8EP

Chris Newbold - Old Postcards

Contact:

Telephone: 07530 304565
Address

4A Main Street
Belton-in-Rutland
Rutland
LE15 9LB

Resources

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