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.

Cloughie: Walking On Water (Signed)

Brian Clough with John Sadler

Headline

£180.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (...

AUSTEN, Jane; [OSGOOD, Irène]; [UNITED DOMINIONS TRUST LTD].

Edinburgh: John Grant

£275.00

Offered by Quair Books

Abd-el-kader: A poem. In six cantos.

MAIDSTONE, Viscount (FINCH-HATTON, George William, Earl of Winchilsea); [RICE, Marianne Sophia]; [RICE, Henry Edward Harcourt].

London: Chapman and Hall

£375.00

Offered by Quair Books

To Esther, And other sketches.

THACKERAY, MISS [Anne]; ROGER DE COVERLY (binder); WALKER, Frederick (frontis engraving)

London: Smith, Elder & Co.

£300.00

Offered by Quair Books

Opera, Denuo emendata.

[HORACE] QUINTI HORATII FLACCI

Taurini [Turin]: Typis Bartholomæi Zappatæ

£850.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Ex Libris Bibliotheca Lindesiana] The Temple of V...

[FORDYCE, David]; FORDYCE, James (additions and introduction); [(COMPTON) PENNINGTON, Penelope, LADY MUNCASTER]

London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand,

£600.00

Offered by Quair 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

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

A Life Drawing - recollections of an Illustrator (...

Hughes, Shirley

Bodley Head

£100.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Log of H.M.S. Bounty 1787-1789

Bligh, Lieutenant W.

Genesis Publishing

£750.00

Offered by Missing Books

Passages from the Modern English Poets Illustrated...

Various

William Tegg

£350.00

Offered by Yardley Books

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

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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Yardley Books | Bob Yardley Chesterfield

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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