Event Information

This is a one-day book fair in Oxford, and there will be around 60 dealers offering rare, collectable and second-hand books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera.  Our book dealers will have travelled from different parts of the country and will have something to suit everyone at prices starting from £2 up to the £1000's. 

Café on site.

Key Details

Time & Date 18th October 2025, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 0BP

Organisers Tom Lintern-Mole, Antiquates Ltd Tel: 01929 556656, 07921 151496 Email: tom@lintern-mole.com
Grace Barham, Pocock Rare Books Tel: 07528 159007 Email: contact@pocockrarebooks.co.uk

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Parking

There is NO on site parking, the car park used in the past near to the venue on London Road is now pay and display. Alternatively, Thornhill is the nearest Park & Ride, and the buses back into Oxford will stop outside the venue.

Train

Oxford, 2 miles

Bus

From city centre and railway station. More details see http://brookesbus.oxfordbus.co.uk.

Driving

From the south - take the M40, leave at junction 8 and follow the signs for Oxford along the A40. Then follow the signs for the city centre on the London Road. From the north - take the M40, leave at junction 8a and follow the signs for Oxford along the A40. Then follow the signs for the city centre on the London Road.

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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 Art of Rearing Silk-worms. Translated from the...

Conte Vicenzo Dandolo

London: John Murray

£160.00

Offered by Salsus Books

Fallback item for books

The Second World War (6 Volumes)

Winston S. Churchill

Cassell

£315.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Fallback item for books

Cloughie: Walking On Water: My Life

Brian Clough with John Sadler

Headline

£180.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Fallback item for books

Vineland

Thomas Pynchon

Secker & Warburg

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The History of the Church of Malabar, from the tim...

Michael Geddes

London: Sam. Smith & Ben. Walford

£600.00

Offered by Salsus Books

The British press & Nazi Germany- reporting from t...

Kylie Galbraith

Bloomsbury academic

£75.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Dangerous Summer

Ernest Hemingway

Hamish Hamilton

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Excession

Iain M. Banks

Orbit

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth

Phoenix

£72.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The APACHE GIRL

ARTHUR MILLS

COLLINS

£65.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Oxford

James Morris

Faber and Faber

£32.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

PATSY'S REFLECTIONS-LEARN TO COOK BY PICTURES

'PATSY'

MIRROR FEATURES

£65.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Second World War (6 Volumes)

Winston S. Churcill

Cassell

£315.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Second World War (6 Volumes)

Winston S. Churchill

Cassell

£235.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A History Of The English-Speaking Peoples

Winston S. Churchill

Cassell

£180.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Bookshelf Art Cards

Roo Waterhouse Art

£3.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

Limited Edition Fine Art Prints

RooWaterhouse Art

£180.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

'Southern Lights'

Roo Waterhouse

Original Oil Painting

£1800.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

'007'

Roo Waterhouse

Original Oil Painting

£1600.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

'Portico Library'

Roo Waterhouse

Original Oil Painting

£2800.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

Between friends- letters of Vera Brittain & Winifr...

Elaine & English Showalter

Virago

£15.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

THE WINCHESTER EDITION C12 VOLUMES C1911

JANE AUSTEN

JOHN GRANT

£495.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

The Life Of Graham Greene (3 Vols)

Norman Sherry

Jonathan Cape

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

Fourth Estate

£155.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

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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Gage Postal Books | Simon Routh Westcliff-on-Sea

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Humber Books Ltd. | Gareth Cresswell Kingston upon Hull

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Hewett's Books | Luke Hewett Liverpool

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Yardley Books | Bob Yardley Chesterfield

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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Resources

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