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 17th October 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

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

Organisers Tom Lintern-Mole, Antiquates Ltd Tel: 01929 556656, 07921 151496 Email: tom@lintern-mole.com
Grace Barham, Pocock 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 Little Train

Graham Greene

Bodley Head

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

My Left Foot

Christy Brown

Secker & Warburg

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The God Of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Flamingo

£85.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Notes on Community Life in the Oratory

Frederick William Faber

[not for circulation] London: Richardson and Son

£180.00

Offered by Salsus Books

When She Was Good

Philip Roth

Jonathan Cape

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Girls In Their Married Bliss

Edna O'Brien

Jonathan Cape

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The Second World War (6 Vols) - The Chartwell Edit...

Winston S. Churchill

The Educational Book Company Limited

£395.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Harvill Secker

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Canal Dreams

Iain Banks

Macmillan

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Sula

Toni Morrison

Bantam Press

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The Giant Jumperee- Signed

Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury

Puffin Books

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Collins and Harvill Press

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Alone In Berlin

Hans Fallada

Penguin Classics

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Thursbitch

Alan Garner

The Harvill Press

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Remainder - Signed

Tom McCarthy

Alma Books

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Latin America Trilogy (3 Books) Signed

Louis De Bernieres

Secker & Warburg

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Millenium Trilogy + 3 (6 Books)

Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz

Maclehose Press

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Man-Eaters Of Kumaon

Jim Corbett

Oxford University Press

£150.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Dancing In The Dark: My Struggle: 4 - SIGNED

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Harvill Secker

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

nineteen eighty-four (1984)

George Orwell

Secker & Warburg

£3225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

A Pictorial Guide To The Lakeland Fells (7 Vols)

A Wainwright / Chris Jesty

Michael Joseph / France Lincoln

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The Book Of Dust Trilogy (3 Books)

Philip Pullman

David Fickling Books

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner

Alan Sillitoe

W.H.Allen

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill 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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Humber Books Ltd. | Gareth Cresswell Kingston upon Hull

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Kingsbridge Books | Paul Davies Kingsbridge

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Steve Liddle | Stephen M Liddle Bishopston

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Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

115

Stephen Rench | Stephen Rench Shipston on Stour

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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Resources

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