Event Information

With around 70 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 for a link to the floor plan and exhibitor list.

Cafe on site.

There will also be a one-day fair at this venue, on Saturday 17th October. 

Key Details

Time & Date 18th April 2026, 12:00 - 18:00 19th April 2026, 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. 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.

[Small archive of canine photography-related corre...

[TROUBRIDGE, Una & CHANDLER, Pamela].

£250.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Eight Volumes of Interwar European Travelogues, c...

[MERRY, Ida & Harvey Guy].

£475.00

Offered by Quair Books

Orchard and Vineyard.

SACKVILLE-WEST, V.[ita]; [COOK, Edith Bessie]; [WHEELER, Edward J. (ex libris design)].

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd

£135.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Autograph album featuring interwar theatrical sig...

[NOVELLO, Ivor]; [SHIELDS, Ella (Burlington Bertie from Bow)]; [OGLESBY, Hilda aka “Whiskey”].

£275.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Letters of Lady Harriot Eliot, 1766-1786.

HEADLAM, Cuthbert (ed.); [SCHUSTER, Claud/e].

Edinburgh: “Printed by T. and A. Constable”

£150.00

Offered by Quair Books

Selma Lagerlöf: Her life and work. Adapted from th...

BERENDSOHN, Walter A.; TIMPSON, George F. (translator); SACKVILLE-WEST, V. (Preface); [DATALLER, Roger (pseud. of Arthur EAGLESTONE]].

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd

£75.00

Offered by Quair Books

A New Pocket Companion for Oxford: Or, guide throu...

[BOURNE, Dr. (Robert?)] [BOURNE, Susan].

Oxford: J. Cooke, near the Clarendon Printing-House

£500.00

Offered by Quair Books

Fiesta in November; Stories from Latin America

Selected and Edited by Angel Flores and Dudley Poore, with an Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter.

Houghton Mifflin Company. Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

£60.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Lives of the fellows of the Royal college of surge...

Signed by president of Royal College. Various authors.

E& S Livingstone & Pitman medical

£195.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Police: Second report from the select committee

House of commons committee 1853

House of Commons

£195.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

An Annotated Bibliography - Signed / Limited

Len Deighton

The Sammler Press

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The flower garden. A Nister fold down calendar for...

1899 Calendar

Ernest Nister

£55.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye

Wardrop, James

George Ramsay and Company, Edinburgh

£350.00

Offered by Abacus Books

Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri viri clarissimi poemata o...

Julius Caesar Scaliger

In Bibliopolio Commeliniano

£245.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

GOLFER'S GUIDE: To the GAME and Greens of SCOTLAND

Dalrymple, W. (Editor)

W. H. White & Co.

£550.00

Offered by Abacus Books

Oxford University 1928 Persian Presentation Certif...

Oxford University

Oxford University

£1500.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third...

James Edge-Partington

London: Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape

£2500.00

Offered by Salsus Books

de Republica Venetorum (Macé Ruette Binding)

Contarini, Gasparo

Elzevier

£2500.00

Offered by Abacus Books

Virginia Woolf: A Biography (2 Vols)

Quentin Bell

The Hogarth Press

£75.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Flush: A Biography

Virginia Woolf

The Hogarth Press

£70.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

"Me and Catharine Susan" #101599

Katharine Ainslie

Cassell Brothers

£75.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Bisoro Stories #101597

Akiki K. Nyabongo

Blackwell

£45.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley; Brave New Wo...

Aldous Huxley

Chatto and Windus

£75.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

A Stitch in Time; or Pride Prevents a Fall. Limite...

James Laver

The Nonesuch Press. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd.

£25.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

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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David Ford Books | David Ford Cley-next-the-Sea

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Kingsbridge Books | Paul Davies Kingsbridge

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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