Event Information

The book fair will be held at The Spa Hotel, and there will be around 23 PBFA dealers selling antiquarian, vintage and secondhand books, maps, and prints.

Refreshments available.

Photos courtesy of Penny Young Photography. 

Key Details

Time & Date 14th February 2026, 10:00 - 15:00

Venue Royal Suite, The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8XJ

Organisers Tim Harper, World War Books Tel: 01892 538465 Email: wwarbooks@btinternet.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Driving

A264 out of Tunbridge Wells.

Parking

Available at the hotel.

Train

Tunbridge Wells, about a mile away. Taxis available close by.

Bus

Bus route 281 from railway station stops a minute's walk from the hotel.

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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.

Gallipoli and Other Poems

L. E. Smith (Lucy Evelyn [1871-1958] New Zealand poet

Whitcombe and Tombs

£40.00

Offered by Wool House Autographic

Vintage

Harley Matthews

P. R. Stephensen

£120.00

Offered by Wool House Autographic

Mapping the Railways - the journey of Britain's ra...

Spaven, David & Holland, Julian

Times Books

£10.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser

Macfall, Haldane

J. M. Dent

£45.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Raj - an eye-witness history of the British in...

Hudson, Roger (ed)

Folio Society

£15.00

Offered by Missing Books

Iron & Brass implements of the English House

Lindsay, Seymour

Alec Tiranti

£15.00

Offered by Missing Books

Fallen Angels (Signed copy)

Vettriano, Jack

Pavilion Books

£100.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Intelligent Layman's book of British Furniture...

Edwards, Dr Clive, et al

Intelligent Layman

£22.50

Offered by Missing Books

Hasted's History of Kent, corrected, enlarged, and...

Drake, Henry H. (ed)

Mitchell & Hughes

£150.00

Offered by Missing Books

The History of the Antient and Metropolitical City...

Hasted, Edward

Simmons & Kirkby

£350.00

Offered by Missing Books

A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Proviniali...

Parish, W.D. & Shaw, W.F.

Trubner & Co

£75.00

Offered by Missing Books

Men of Kent and Kentishmen - a manual of Kentish b...

Hutchinson, John

Cross & Jackman

£85.00

Offered by Missing Books

A Journey round the Coast of Kent

Fussell, L.

Baldwin, Craddock 7 Joy

£125.00

Offered by Missing 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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David Ford Books | David Ford Cley-next-the-Sea

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Missing Books | Chris Missing Chelmsford

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Nicholas Bernstein | Nicholas Bernstein Tunbridge Wells

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Resources

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

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