Oxford Premier Fair

22nd Apr 2023, 23rd Apr 2023

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Event Information

With around 75 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. 

Please scroll down to the bottom to see the link to the floor plan.

Cafe on site.

There will also be a new one-day fair, also at this venue, on Saturday 21st October.

Key Details

Time & Date 22nd April 2023, 12:00 - 18:00 23rd April 2023, 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 £ 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 Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Books Illustrated

£650.00

Offered by Books Illustrated Ltd

Playpower

Neville, Richard

Jonathan Cape, 1970

£225.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

Live As Family: A novel [Jane Eyre interest]

FAIRBAIRNS, Zoë; CINAMON, Gerald (DJ design)

London: Macmillan

£60.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Painted King [INSCRIBED]

DAVIES, Rhys; [TAYLOR, Louise & Redvers]; SCHWARTZ, Daniel (DJ illustrator)

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc.

£150.00

Offered by Quair Books

Anna Comnena [INSCRIBED]

MITCHISON, Naomi; BIRRELL, Francis (series editor); GOWER PARKS, J. (frontis artist); [READ, Frederick Stroud]

London: Gerald Howe Ltd

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

Elenchus Brown: The story of an Experimental Utopi...

BOWHAY, B. L. [Bertha Louisa]; LANGDON, Harvey (illustrator)

London: H. R. Allenson, Limited

Reserved

Offered by Quair Books

Sybil Thorndike [DOUBLE SIGNED]

[THORNDIKE, Sybil]; THORNDIKE, Russell

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

Drama [INSCRIBED]

MacCARTHY, Desmond; [LESLIE, Henrietta pseud. of Henrietta SCHÜTZE]

London & New York: Putnam

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Tao of Painting. A Study of the Ritual Disposi...

Mai-Mai Sze

Bollingen/Pantheon

£80.00

Offered by David Whittaker

E. E. Leggatt. From Messrs Agnew & Sons, Fine Art...

PATON (Frank)

£110.00

Offered by Forest Books

Relativity. The Special & the General Theory: A Po...

EINSTEIN (Albert)

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.

£395.00

Offered by Forest Books

The Home of the Blizzard: being the story of the A...

Mawson, Douglas

Heinemann

£625.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, a catalogue of t...

Greenwood, Jeremy

Wood Lea Press

£175.00

Offered by Missing Books

(Longbow Archery) Toxophilus, The Schole, or Parti...

Ascham, Roger

E Marsh, Wrexham

£160.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

The Little Nugget

Wodehouse, PG

Methuen

£25.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Anthony Van Dyck 1599-1641

Brown, Christopher & Vlieghe, Hans

Royal Academy Publications

£15.00

Offered by Missing Books

Cities Seen: In East & West

TIBBITS, Mrs. Walter; [LAMINGTON, Lady Mary;] [COCHRANE-BAILLIE, Hon. Grisell]

London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd

£65.00

Offered by Quair Books

Fifty Fables of La Fontaine (Limited edition)

Fontaine, Jean de la (illus Quentin Blake)

Folio Society

£350.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses (Ltd edition)

Apuleius (illus Quentin Blake)

Folio Society

£375.00

Offered by Missing Books

Observations on the Neilgherries, Including an Acc...

BAIKIE (Robert)

Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press,

£1750.00

Offered by Forest Books

Histoire de la Laponie, sa description, l’origine,...

SCHEFFER (Johannes)

Paris: chez la Veuve Olivier de Varennes,

£1395.00

Offered by Forest Books

Survey of London, vol XLIII and XLIV: Poplar, Blac...

Porter, Stephen (ed)

Athlone Press

£200.00

Offered by Missing Books

Deaths and Entrances

Thomas, Dylan (illus John Piper)

Gwasg Gregynog

£900.00

Offered by Missing Books

History of the Society of Dilettanti (Limited Edi...

Cust, Lionel

Macmillan

£275.00

Offered by Kingsbridge 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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Keel Row Bookshop | Anthony J Smithson Whitley Bay

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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Resources

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