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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.

Playpower

Neville, Richard

Jonathan Cape, 1970

£225.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

Duffy ( Signed )

Kavanagh, Dan ( Julian Barnes )

Jonathan Cape

£150.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

Cambridge Nightclimbing

Hederatus'

Chatto & Windus

£125.00

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.

£200.00

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

£175.00

Offered by Quair Books

Love Bites: Photographs

GRACE, Della [Del la Grace Volcano]; SCHULMAN, Sarah (introductory essay)

London: éditions Aubrey Walter/ GMP Publishers Ltd

£100.00

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

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

Sybil Thorndike [DOUBLE SIGNED]

[THORNDIKE, Sybil]; THORNDIKE, Russell

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

Silent Spring

CARSON, Rachel; Lord SHACKLETON (Introduction); HUXLEY, Julian (Preface); DAVEY, Patricia (dust jacket design)

London: Hamish Hamilton

£85.00

Offered by Quair Books

Drama [INSCRIBED]

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

London & New York: Putnam

£125.00

Offered by Quair Books

Crusaders: The reminiscences of Constance Smedley...

SMEDLEY, Constance

London: Duckworth

£85.00

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

The Heart of England (1st edition)

Thomas, Edward

J. M. Dent

£150.00

Offered by Missing Books

Drawn From Memory ( Signed )

Shepard Ernest H

Methuen & Co

£250.00

Offered by White Eagle Books

Two Men in the Antarctic

Bagshawe, Thomas Wyatt

CUP

£575.00

Offered by Kingsbridge 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

The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town...

Tierney, Rev M.A.

G & W Nicol

£400.00

Offered by Missing Books

Anthony Van Dyck 1599-1641

Brown, Christopher & Vlieghe, Hans

Royal Academy Publications

£15.00

Offered by Missing 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 North Shields

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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