Event Information

With around 75 dealers offering tens of thousands of rare, collectable and second-hand books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera, the Oxford Premier 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 to the bottom to download the floor plan, and/or a complimentary ticket.

Cafe on site.

There will also be a second fair at this venue, on Saturday 19th October, a one-day fair.

Key Details

Time & Date 20th April 2024, 12:00 - 18:00 21st April 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

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

Organisers Tom Lintern-Mole, Antiquates Ltd Tel: 01929 556656 or 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.

Picturesque Illustrations to the Isle of Wight

Thmas Barber

Simpkin & Marshall

£125.00

Offered by David Whittaker

Engravings of Well-Known Views in the Isle of Wigh...

George Brannon

Brannon

£125.00

Offered by David Whittaker

Domestic Architecture: Being a Series of Designs f...

Francis Goodwin

Bohn

£195.00

Offered by David Whittaker

Syria, The Holy Land, & Asia Minor

John Carne

Fisher & Co

£250.00

Offered by David Whittaker

Rural Architecture: Being a Series of Designs for...

P. F. Robinson

Carpenter

£195.00

Offered by David Whittaker

Vectis Scenery: Isle of Wight

George Brannon

Brannon

£195.00

Offered by David Whittaker

Byron's Letters and Journals

Byron, George Gordon; leslie A. Marchand, ed.

London: John Murray

£450.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Force of Circumstance (and 16 others)

J H Prynne

Various Small Press

£800.00

Offered by Undercover Books

Complete Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Nonesuch Press

£90.00

Offered by David Whittaker

The House in the wood & other stories

Richmal Crompton

Signed by publisher/compiler - David Schutte

£30.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The History & Antiquities of the Hundred of Bray i...

Charles Kerry

Savill & Edwards

£45.00

Offered by David Whittaker

Original Views of Oxford, its Colleges, Chapels, a...

DELAMOTTE (William Alfred)

London: Published by Thomas Boys,

£1100.00

Offered by Forest Books

Fanfreluche: A Miscellany, No.2

Waddington, C.H; Upward, Edward; Gurney, H.G; Austin Lee etc.

Cambridge: The Loft Press

£75.00

Offered by Undercover Books

The Three Books of the Potter's Art

Cipriano Piccolpasso

Scolar Press

£120.00

Offered by David Whittaker

The several Papers which were laid before the Righ...

OXFORD RIOTS.

London: Printed for J. Tonson,

£125.00

Offered by Forest Books

Historical Record of the Fifty-Second Regiment (Ox...

MOORSOM (W. S.)

London: Richard Bentley,

£120.00

Offered by Forest 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

£1200.00

Offered by Undercover Books

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems

Yeats, William Butler

London: T. Fisher Unwin

£1000.00

Offered by Undercover 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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Donald Munro | Donald Munro St Albans

0

David Whittaker | David Whittaker Chipping Norton

113

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Ian Marr Rare Books | Ian Marr Edinburgh

15

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Pablo Butcher | Pablo Butcher Dorchester on Thames

0

Peter Hill | Peter Hill Emsworth

7

Pete Fry | Peter Fry Grange-over-Sands

213

Pocock Rare Books | Grace Barham Shaftesbury

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

40

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

0

Resources

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