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.

How To Play Your Best Golf All The Time (Signed)

Tommy Armour

Hodder & Stoughton

£200.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Bridge On The River Kwai

Pierre Boulle

Secker & Warburg

£315.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

First Four Minutes (Signed)

Roger Bannister

Putnam

£360.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Winston S. Churchill Biography (8 Volumes) + 13 Co...

Randolph Churchill and Sir Martin Gilbert

Heinemann

£1500.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Condor and the Cows

Christopher Isherwood

Methuen & Co Ltd

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Scandal (Signed)

A.N. Wilson

Hamish Hamilton

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Diary of a Provincial Lady

E.M. Delafield

Macmillan and Company Limited

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming

Jonathan Cape

£200.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen

George G. Harrap & Co Ltd.

£200.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Rome

Emile Zola

Bibliotheque-Charpentier

£600.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Fear Is The Key

Alistair Maclean

Collins

£96.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Le Carre Omnibus

John Le Carre

Victor Gollancz

£180.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Indian Trilogy (3 Books)

V.S. Naipaul

Deutsch / Heinemann

£220.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Soldiers Of Misfortune

P.C. Wren

John Murray

£236.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

Louis de Bernieres

Secker & Warburg

£72.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Shooting – Moor and Marsh

Lord Walsingham

Longmans, Green and Co.

£20.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Modern Motor Car

Shell-Mex and BP

Shell-Mex and BP

£48.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Norwich Cathedral – at the End of the Eighteenth C...

John Adey Repton

Gregg Press

£40.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Modern Light Aeroplane

Shell-Mex and BP

Shell-Mex and BP

£80.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Prince and The Pauper

Mark Twain

Chatto & Windus

£30.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Tim All Alone

Edward Ardizzone

Oxford University Press

£45.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Confessions of a Thug

Captain Meadows Taylor

Richard Bentley

£200.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Rupert Annual

Alfred Bestall

Daily Express

£35.00

Offered by Topeka Books

India and Its Native Princes - Travels in Central...

Louis Rousselet

Bickers & Son

£200.00

Offered by Topeka 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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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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