Event Information

The Sherborne Book Fair has been a feature of life in this delightful Dorset town for over 40 years.  

The fair attracts booksellers from all over the west country offering a great selection of second-hand and antiquarian books on all subjects.

Key Details

Time & Date 12th October 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3NL

Organisers Claire Porter, Chapter House Books Tel: 01935 816262 Email: sherbornebooks@tiscali.co.uk

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Parking

Station car park

Train

Sherborne, half a mile away

Bus

Bus stop outside venue

Driving

Sherborne is off the A303

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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.

Tim All Alone

Edward Ardizzone

Oxford University Press

£75.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Confessions of a Thug

Captain Meadows Taylor

Richard Bentley

£400.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Rupert Annual

Alfred Bestall

Daily Express

£65.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Modern Rake’s Progress

Rebecca West and David Low

Hutchinson

£45.00

Offered by Topeka Books

India and Its Native Princes - Travels in Central...

Louis Rousselet

Bickers & Son

£250.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Story of The Munsters

Mrs Victor Rickard

Hodder and Stoughton

£120.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Death Is No Sportsman

Cyril Hare

Faber & Faber

£75.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

Chatto & Windus

£150.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Cherrys and Company

Will Scott

Brockhampton Press

£150.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The 1929 Christmas Tree

Various including Edward Ardizzone, Lucie Attwell, E F Benson, John Drinkwater,

Ernest Benn

£40.00

Offered by Topeka Books

High Street

J M Richards

Country Life

£5000.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Henry Yevele. c. 1320-1400 . The Life of an Englis...

John H Harvey

Batsford

£12.00

Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector

Cover Her Face

P D James

Folio Society

£12.00

Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector

Sporting Dogs. First Edition

A Croxton Smith

Country Life

£18.00

Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector

Peter Pan and Wendy

J M Barrie /May Byron/ Mabel Lucie Attwell

Hodder & Stoughton

£25.00

Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector

THE PICTURESQUE. NINE WORKS IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

William Gilpin.

printed by Strahan, for Cadell & Davies

£1800.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

British Intelligence in the Second World War

F H Hinsley

HMSO

£400.00

Offered by Topeka Books

PORTFOLIO OF 21 ETCHINGS AND 1 SKETCH.

John Norgrave Baker.

Not Published

£1250.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

MEMOIRS OF A SMUGGLER, COMPILED FROM HIS DIARY AND...

[John Rattenbury].

Sidmouth: printed, published and sold by J. Harvey

£350.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

A Series of Views of the Collieries in the Countie...

T H Hair

David & Charles reprints

£60.00

Offered by Topeka Books

JEP - Le Jouet de Paris 1902-1968

Clive Lamming

Adrien Maeght

£250.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The World of Tomorrow - The 1939 New York World's...

Larry Zim, Mel Lerner & Herbert Rolfes

Harper & Row

£45.00

Offered by Topeka Books

A Road to Fairyland

Erica Fay

Putnam's

£250.00

Offered by Topeka Books

A Printer's Christmas Books

Brooke Crutchley

Cambridge

£45.00

Offered by Topeka 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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Chris Crook | Chris Crook Weston-super-Mare

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Helen Deighton | Helen Deighton Sturminster Newton

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Karen Jakobsen Art and Design Books | Karen Jakobsen Sturminster Newton

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Kingswood Books | Anne Rockall Sherborne

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Pocock Rare Books | Grace Barham Shaftesbury

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Stour Bookshop | Tony Butler Sturminster Newton

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Guest Exhibitors

We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.

This Way Books, Joss Mullinger
Specialists in local history publications, printed ephemera and historical maps.

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Resources

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