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.

Leaves of Grass (FIRST)

Whitman, Walt

J M Dent

£350.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Letters of Virginia Woolf (six volume set)

Woolf,Virginia

Hogarth Press

£175.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (FIRST)

Pirsig, Robert M

Bodley Head

£85.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Selected Poems 1957 - 1967 - Signed

Ted Hughes

Faber and Faber Limited

£275.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

French Country Cooking

Elizabeth David

John Lehmann Ltd

£240.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Waiting For Godot

Samuel Beckett

Faber

£180.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

My Friend Tree

Loraine Niedecker

Wild Hawthorn Press

£360.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Nature of Gothic; A Chapter of the Stones of V...

John Ruskin

The Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, and published by George Allen, Temple Bar, London, and Sunnyside, Orpington.

£2700.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Zoo Quest To Guiana

David Attenborough

Lutterworth Press

£160.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Origin Of Cells

O.B. Lepeshinskaya

Foreign Languages Publishing House

£400.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Testament Of Youth - Signed

Vera Brittain

Victor Gollancz Ltd

£1000.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Centenary Robert Burns (4 Vols)

Henley & Henderson

T.C. & E. Jack

£140.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Odessa File

Frederick Forsyth

Hutchinson

£150.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

When The Lion Feeds

Wilbur A. Smith

Heinemann

£128.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Unique NASA Astronaut Correspondence Archive, 1963...

NASA

NASA

£1500.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Abd-el-kader: A poem. In six cantos.

MAIDSTONE, Viscount (FINCH-HATTON, George William, Earl of Winchilsea); [RICE, Marianne Sophia]; [RICE, Henry Edward Harcourt].

London: Chapman and Hall

£375.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fert...

Charles Darwin

John Murray, London

£120.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

English Poetry; An Illustrated Catalogue of First...

Compiled and Revised by John Hayward

National Book League, Cambridge University Press

£50.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Novels of Sisters Bronte ten volumes (REDUCED PRIC...

Bronte Sisters

JM Dent

£750.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

Six volume set of works (REDUCED PRICE) First, thu...

Austen, Jane

JM Dent

£1750.00

Offered by Kingsbridge Books

The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire By W. Chambers Lefr...

W. Chambers Lefroy

Seeley Jackson & Halliday

£325.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

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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Resources

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