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.

The Idyls of Theocritus; With Bion & Moschus. Rend...

Theocritus, translated by Andrew Lang

The Medici Society Ltd/The Riccardi Press Books

£800.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-Surveying, I...

Anthony Nesbit

Thomas Wilson and Son, York; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London; and for Wilson and Son, York.

£200.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

William Morris; Stories in Prose, Stories in Verse...

William Morris. Edited by G.D.H. Cole.

The Nonesuch Press, London

£20.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Collection of 18 original Imperial Russian Cabinet...

Imprints include A. Baculev, Samara; J. Tyras-Polski, Photographie de la Cour, with locations listed such as Varsovie (Warsaw), Lodz, Odessa and Woronege; S. Janecki of Kielce with branches noted at Busko and Pinczow; J. Daniloff, Moscow; I. Kurbatov...

Russia

£295.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Pleasure of Ruins, by Rose Macaulay. With interest...

Rose Macaulay, Roger Senhouse

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

£950.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Opere Burlesche di M. Francesco Berni, con annotaz...

Francesco Berni

Milano, dalla Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani

£180.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Klara and the Sun (signed Independent Bookshops sp...

Kazuo Ishiguro

Faber and Faber, London

£100.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

South Wind Blows

Clark Porteous

Current Books, Inc. / A.A. Wyn, New York

£75.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The Three Devils; Luther's, Miltons, and Goethe's,...

David Masson

Macmillan and Co., London

£85.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Poetical Works of Matthew Anderson #101596

Matthew Anderson

John Ritchie Ltd. Kilmarnock

£75.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Oxford High Street

Vignette view

J Newman - F Trash

£38.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Wadham College from the Parks

Ackermann's History of Oxford

at 101 Strand for Ackermann's History of Oxford

£95.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

South with Shackleton (with inscription by author...

Hussey, Dr LDA

Sampson Low

£475.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

St Paul's Order of Service: Captain Scott Centenar...

Anon

St Paul's Cathedral

£20.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Asparagus(Illustrated & Limited)

Eliot, TS

Friends of Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables ( LIMITED ONE OF 200)

£65.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

The Story of Cuba: The Struggles for Liberty..

Halstead, Murat

Cuba Libre Publishing

£60.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

The Magic Currant Bun #101591

John Symonds

Faber & Faber

£75.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

Through the South Seas with Jack London

Johnson, Martin

T Werner

£150.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

Firefly

£30.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

The Battle of Waterloo, with Those of Ligny and Qu...

George Jones

L. Booth, London

Reserved

Offered by Lanna Antique

William Burgess and the high Victorian dream.

Crook. J. Mordaunt

France’s Lincoln limited.

£95.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Great Edwardian gardens of Harold Peto

Whaley. Robin

Aurum press. London

£45.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Gothic for the steam age- George Gilbert Scott ill...

Stamp. Gavin

Aurum press. London

£65.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

The Orators: An English Study

W.H. Auden

Faber & Faber

£80.00

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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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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