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Oxford Premier Fair

2nd Apr 2022, 3rd Apr 2022

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Event Information

With almost 100 dealers offering tens of thousands of rare, collectable and second-hand books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera, the Oxford Book Fair frequently attracts the attention of both local and national press.   A great two-day fair for all book lovers young and old.  Our book dealers 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. 

Cafe on site.

Key Details

Time & Date 2nd April 2022, 12:00 - 18:00 3rd April 2022, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Oxford Brookes University, Headington Hill Campus, Oxford, OX3 0BP

Organisers John Martin, Mayfly Ephemera Tel: 07701 034472 Email: mayflyephemera@msn.com

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Ticket Information

General Admission £ 2.00

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.- 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.- 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 Tales of Beedle the Bard - collectors edition

Rowling, J.K.

Childrens High Level Group

£275.00

Offered by Missing Books

Sex and a changing civilisation

Kenneth Walker (& Eric Gill?)

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head

£0.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Anacreontis Odaria ad Texts Barnesiani Fidem Emend...

Edward Forster, ed.

London: Bulmer, J. White & G. Miller

£300.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Maud, and Other Poems

Tennyson, Alfred

London: Edward Moxon

£1500.00

Offered by Undercover Books

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems

Yeats, William Butler

London: T. Fisher Unwin

£1500.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas de Quincey

London: Taylor and Hessey

£500.00

Offered by Undercover Books

First Four Minutes (Double signed by Roger Bannist...

Bannister, Roger

Putnam

£1000.00

Offered by Ariadne Books

Narcissa

Richmal Crompton

Macmillan

£85.00

Offered by T P Books

Desertion : Signed By The Nobel Laureate Author

Gurnah, Abdulrazak

Bloomsbury, London

£950.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

The Kingdom Of The Pearl : Deluxe Edition Signed B...

Rosenthal, Leonard & Dulac, Edmund (Illus.)

Nisbet & Co. Ltd, Londo

£2000.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

Seriatim – : Paintings, Places and Asides’

Graham, Rigby

Brewhouse Press

£3500.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

Books As They Were Bought: Complete or in Parts.

Mavis Eggle

Published by the Author.

£400.00

Offered by The Antiquarian Book Company

The Silly Submarine

Copeland, Walter & Robinson, Charles (illus.)

Blackie & Son Ltd, London

£325.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

The Snail Who Ran : Inscribed Association Copy, Fr...

Lathrop, Dorothy P.

Frederick A. Stokes, NY, USA

£750.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

A Christmas Book

Sandwyk, Charles Van

Heavenly Monkey, Vancouver

£595.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

A Pilgrim In Arabia

H. STJ. B. Philby

Golden Cockeral Press

£495.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Thabit ibn Qurra: Oeuvres d'Astronomie

Regis MORELON (ed.)

Paris: Societe d'edition ''Les belles Lettres''

£75.00

Offered by Salsus Books

What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living C...

Erwin Schrodinger

Cambridge University Press

£280.00

Offered by Salsus Books

The Psychology Of The Poet Shelley : Inscribed by...

Carpenter, Edward And Barnefield, George

George Allen & Unwin, London

£425.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

Hop-O’-Me-Heart: A Grown-up Fairy-Tale With illust...

Housman, Laurence

The Pear Tree Press, Flansham

£750.00

Offered by Ashton Rare Books

Extract from the Will of Edward Strong the Elder C...

[Edward Strong the Elder]

£180.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Track of the Cat

Van TILBURG CLARK, Walter

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd

£40.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy. Illustra...

WAUGH, Evelyn; BOYLE, Stuart (illustrator)

London: Chapman & Hall

£75.00

Offered by Quair Books

Kiki Fleming

FLEMING, Kiki; EMMERLING, Dr. Leonard (Introduction); KIERAN, Brian Lawrence (contributor)

Privately printed

£50.00

Offered by Quair 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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Ian Marr Rare Books | Ian Marr Edinburgh

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Kingsbridge Books | Paul Davies Kingsbridge

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Pablo Butcher | Pablo Butcher Dorchester on Thames

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Peter Harrington | Pom Harrington

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Peter Hill | Peter Hill Emsworth

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Peter Whetman | Peter Whetman Pinner

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Picture This | Christopher Bailey & Pamela Fung Sunningdale

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Paul Bostock Rare Books | Paul Bostock Winster

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Pete Fry | Peter Fry Grange-over-Sands

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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