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 Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints of Paul Dury

Robin Garton

Robin Garton & Co

£350.00

Offered by Yardley Books

The Temple of Flora

Robert Thornton . Intro by Ronald King

Weidenfeld & Nicholson

£35.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Jan Van Huysum 1682-1749 Including a Catalogue Rai...

Colonel M H Grant

F Lewis Publishers Leigh-on-Sea

£45.00

Offered by Yardley Books

North of Rome

Richard Church

Hutchinson of London

£22.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Lutyens: The Work of the English Architect Sir Edw...

Various

Arts Council

£18.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Private View

Bryan Robertson / John Russell / Lord Snowden

Nelson

£28.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Frank Brangwyn 1867-1956

Libby Horner & Gillian Naylor (Eds)

Leeds Museum and Art Gallery

£55.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Walter Keeler

Emmanuel Copper & Amanda Fielding

City Gallery Leicester

£35.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Jewellery 1789-1910 The International Era

Shirley Bury

Antique Collectors Club

£145.00

Offered by Yardley Books

James Morrison Land and Landscape

John Morrison

Sansom & Company

£85.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Adolphe Valette & L. S. Lowry

Celia Lyon ( SIGNED COPY )

Prose Book Publishing

£36.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Harold Macmillan Autobiography (6 Volumes)

Harold Macmillan

Macmillan

£300.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

With the Allied Armies in Italy

Edward Seago

Collins

£68.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Brabazon Story (Signed)

Lord Brabazon Of Tara

William Heinemann Ltd

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A New Treatise on the Game of Chess on a Plan of P...

J. H. Sarratt

London: R. P. Moore

£500.00

Offered by Salsus Books

A Suitable Boy (Signed)

Vikram Seth

Phoenix House

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Atonement (Signed)

Ian McEwan

Jonathan Cape

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

River Out Of Eden; A Darwinian View Of Life

Richard Dawkins

Weidenfield & Nicolson

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

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

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

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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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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