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 11th October 2025, 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.

The Complete Angler

Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton

W.H.Allen & Co

£16.00

Offered by Colin Baker Books for the Collector

Now We Are Six | 1st Edition / 1st Impression 1927

A.A Milne

Methuen

£749.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

The House at Pooh Corner | 1st Edition / 1st Impre...

A.A Milne

Methuen

£749.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Chapter House Dune | Signed First Edition/First Im...

Frank Herbert

Victor Gollancz

£1249.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

The Tales of Beedle The Bard | Signed First Editio...

J. K. Rowling

Bloomsbury

£1499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Winnie the Pooh | 1926 1st Edition / 1st Impressi...

A. A. Milne

Methuen

£1199.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Eleven Poems | First Edition/Second Impression (UK...

Seamus Heaney

Festival Publications, Queen’s University, Belfast

£1999.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

The Carpet People | Signed by Sir Terry Pratchett...

Sir Terry Pratchett

Colin Smythe Gerrards Cross

£2999.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Wolf Hall Trilogy | Signed, Lined & Dated | 1st E...

Hilary Mantel

Harper Collins

£2999.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Signed 1st Edi...

J.K Rowling

Bloomsbury

£3499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Nineteen Eighty Four. First Edition/First Impressi...

George Orwell

Secker & Warburg

£3499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

Shooting – Moor and Marsh

Lord Walsingham

Longmans, Green and Co.

£20.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Modern Motor Car

Shell-Mex and BP

Shell-Mex and BP

£48.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Norwich Cathedral – at the End of the Eighteenth C...

John Adey Repton

Gregg Press

£40.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Modern Light Aeroplane

Shell-Mex and BP

Shell-Mex and BP

£80.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Prince and The Pauper

Mark Twain

Chatto & Windus

£30.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Tim All Alone

Edward Ardizzone

Oxford University Press

£45.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Confessions of a Thug

Captain Meadows Taylor

Richard Bentley

£200.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Rupert Annual

Alfred Bestall

Daily Express

£35.00

Offered by Topeka Books

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

Louis Rousselet

Bickers & Son

£200.00

Offered by Topeka Books

The Story of The Munsters

Mrs Victor Rickard

Hodder and Stoughton

£80.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Death Is No Sportsman

Cyril Hare

Faber & Faber

£50.00

Offered by Topeka Books

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

Chatto & Windus

£100.00

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.

Exhibitors A-Z

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Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

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Name & Trading Name

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Name

Books

Chris Crook | Chris Crook Weston-super-Mare

0

E

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

G

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

H

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Helen Deighton | Helen Deighton Sturminster Newton

0

K

Name & Trading Name

Showing 2 Results

Name

Books

Karen Jakobsen Art and Design Books | Karen Jakobsen Sturminster Newton

7

Kingswood Books | Anne Rockall Sherborne

0

S

Name & Trading Name

Showing 2 Results

Name

Books

Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

93

Stour Bookshop | Tony Butler Sturminster Newton

0

T

Name & Trading Name

Showing 2 Results

Name

Books

Resources

Please find some helpful links below. If you need anything else, do not hesitate to get in touch.

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