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. 

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.

H Is For Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Jonathan Cape

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The World Of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation

Henry Miller

Capra Press

£30.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Letters To Emil

Henry Miller

Carcanet

£30.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Second World War Boxed Set (6 Vols)

Winston S. Churchill

Penguin

£45.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Opus Pistorum

Henry Miller

W.H. Allen

£75.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Mighty Walzer

Howard Jacobson

Jonathan Cape

£25.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Dostoevsky Reminiscences

Anna Dostoevsky

Wildwood House

£30.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A Writer's Diary Volume 1 1873 - 1876

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Quartet Books

£75.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Nexus

Henry Miller

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Fat Man In History

Peter Carey

Faber and Faber

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Abbess Of Castro And Other Tales

C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Stendhal)

Chatto & Windus

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Coming From Behind

Howard Jacobson

Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press

£40.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Grounds of the Old Religion: or Some General A...

[Richard Challoner] 'a Convert'

no publisher Augusta [London]

£160.00

Offered by Salsus Books

The Last Puritan

George Santayana

Constable

£295.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Cosmological Eye

Henry Miller

New Directions

£295.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Big Sur and The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Henry Miller

Heinemann

£150.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A Place Of Greater Safety

Hilary Mantel

Viking

£175.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

A History Of The English-Speaking Peoples

Winston S. Churchill

The Educational Book Company Limited

£360.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

George Orwell: A Life

Bernard Crick

Secker & Warburg

£30.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Thomas The Tank Engine

The Rev. W. Awdry

Edmund Ward

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Troublesome Engines

The Rev. W Awdry

Edmund Ward

£175.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Bloomsbury

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

Bantam Press

£120.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Atonement - Signed

Ian McEwan

Jonathan Cape

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

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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Donald Munro | Donald Munro St Albans

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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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Resources

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