York National

12th Sep 2025, 13th Sep 2025

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Event Information

From modest beginnings with just 20 exhibitors at the White Swan Inn in York in 1974, the York National Book Fair has grown into the largest, and many say friendliest, rare, antiquarian & out-of-print book fair in the UK and Europe.

At the fair, you will find books over 500 years old, be able to review copies of recently published works, and everything in between. The book fair will take place at York Racecourse. This venue is very easy to reach - there is unlimited free parking, and also a free shuttle bus from the Railway Station (Memorial Gardens) to the fair every 20 minutes.

Do also visit the fair's website, www.yorkbookfair.com where you can find more fair details, including an interactive floor plan.

Who Will Enjoy The Fair?
Anyone interested in books and reading. This is not just a Fair for dealers, but is open to everyone young and old, and a great place to start collecting. With over 100,000 books for sale, where else can you look at, touch, enjoy, and purchase so many rarities under one roof. If you are already a collector then attending the York National Book Fair is a great opportunity to meet new dealers in your area.

Books, Prints, Maps & Ephemera
Held over two days, over 150 of this country's leading booksellers offer for sale a breath-taking diversity of books, as well as posters, ephemera, manuscripts, maps & prints, ranging in price from just a few pounds up to tens of thousands of pounds. This year we also welcome a number of dealers from overseas.

Refreshments: Light refreshments available in café.

Key Details

Time & Date 12th September 2025, 12:00 - 19:00 13th September 2025, 10:00 - 17:00

Venue The Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, York, YO23 1EX

Website https://yorkbookfair.com/

Organisers James Hallgate Tel: 01904 640111 Email: james@luciusbooks.com
Monica Polisca Tel: 01904 640111 Email: monica@luciusbooks.com
Janette Ray Tel: 01904 623088 Email: books@janetteray.co.uk
Tony Fothergill, Ken Spelman Books Ltd Tel: 07960 350909 Email: kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 2.00

Travel Information

Parking

Free, at the venue

Train

York station, just over a mile away

Bus

Free shuttle bus from and to York railway station (Memorial Gardens)

Driving

A1(M), J1

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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.

A very Special Limited Edition Complete Boxed Set...

Various including Dahl, Roald

Puffin Books

Reserved

Offered by Peakirk Books

The Bang Bang Birds

Diment, Adam

London: Michael Joseph

£250.00

Offered by Peakirk Books

Fallback item for books

Cyprus & Suez: Love Letters from Active Service

48 letters from Pte Laurie Lacy to Ann Hughes

£250.00

Offered by Pocock Rare Books

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

Harper & Brothers

£625.00

Offered by Pocock Rare Books

A Time Of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor

John Murray

£220.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

PRATTS HIGH TEST MAP OF NORTHERN ENGLAND

A TAYLOR

AA

£150.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

MERCATOR WORLD ATLAS C1637 EDITION 180 MAPS

GERARD MERCATOR

£8995.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

john arrowsmith london atlas geography of the worl...

JOHN ARROWSMITH

£19995.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

HISTORY OF LONDON C1772 2 VOLUME SET

WILLIAM MAITLAND

£1250.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. First Edition 1910

Potter, Beatrix

F. Warne & Co.

£450.00

Offered by G Mosdell, The Junction Bookshop

Cage Without Grievance: Poems. Limited Signed Ed...

Graham, W S

Parton Press, Glasgow.

£1800.00

Offered by G Mosdell, The Junction Bookshop

The Secret Seven Adventure

Enid Blyton

The Brockhampton Press Ltd

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Index to the Portable Dispensary. 1819.

Portable dispensary.

£125.00

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

William Congreve. The Works. 1730.

Congreve, William

£125.00

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

Thomas Fuller. The Holy State. 1642.

Fuller, Thomas

£395.00

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

1793 - Narrative of the Sufferings of James Bristo...

Bristow, James.

£495.00

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

BRAZILIAN FLOWERS - PROOF BEFORE LETTER

NORTON, Edith Holland

£12500.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

ATLAS OF CO0UNTY OF YORK - FIRST EDITION

JEFFERYS, Thomas

£2500.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

History of British Birds

Thomas Bewick

£795.00

Offered by Pete Fry

St Kilda

National Trust of Scotland

Private

£695.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Dried Plant Specimens

Unknown

unknown

£675.00

Offered by Pete Fry

A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland a...

James Clarke

James Clarke

£775.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Ben and Brock

Ernest Shepard

Methuen

£595.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Seaweed Collection

Unknown

Private

£975.00

Offered by Pete Fry

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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Guest Exhibitors

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

Victoria Hall Hand Decorated Papers
Victoria makes hand marbled and paste papers with a particular interest in historic papers which are available from stock or may be ordered. Requests to match old papers are welcome, as are enquiries for use in modern editions and other applications. Gift products. Established 1989.

Contact: Victoria Hall

Telephone: 01328 701381
Address

Hill Farm House, London Street
Whissonsett
Dereham
Norfolk
NR20 5ST

Creative Computing
Creative Computing is based in Abingdon, near Oxford. It offers a variety of computer services, including database and website development. Its "Bookseller" cataloguing database system is used by many of the leading antiquarian booksellers in the UK and worldwide.

Contact: Tom Dupre

Telephone: 01235 539395
Address

Newburn
Tatham Road
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 1QD

Private Libraries Association
We are an international association of people who love and collect books. We aim to share that love and enthusiasm by publishing books and articles on all aspects of the book, anything, in fact, that reflects the interests of our members. In four years time we will celebrate our 70th anniversary and intend to keep going for another seventy years! We publish four journals a year and this year we will be publishing the latest of our books, "Early Private Presses 1730-1900", a two-volume work by David Chambers, the well-known expert in this field. Due to its complexity, this work has taken a lot longer than we expected. However, final editing is almost complete. We will have the full range of our journals and publications available to buy at the fair

Contact: David Fry

The Institute of English Studies
The Institute of English Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) offers training in book, print, and manuscript studies through the London Rare Books School, Palaeography Summer School, and the MA/MRes in the History of the Book.

Contact: Anne-Marie Stephen

Telephone: 020 7862 8679
Address

University of London
Senate House, Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU

Thin Ice Press
Tel. Helen Smith 01904 323352; J T Welsch 01904 324719

Contact: Helen Smith & J T Welsch

Address

Dept. of English & Related Literature
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

R F Shipping Ltd

Contact:

Telephone: 0203 002 6026
Address

Wow Acton, Unit 5, Wendover Court
Western Avenue
London
W3 0TG

Resources

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