York New Year 2026

10th Jan 2026

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Event Information

The York New Year Book Fair is an established and friendly event.  With around 100 dealers from all over the country, situated on just one floor, the fair offers a rich and delicious variety of choice for anyone interested in books. Thousands of second-hand, antiquarian and rare items will be on offer from all areas of fiction and non-fiction, along with related ephemera. There are prices to suit all pockets. 

There is also a café at the fair, open all day, which offers hot and cold refreshments.

There are excellent parking facilities at The Knavesmire.  For those travelling by train, or who wish to make use of public transport, there is a free bus service running from the Memorial Gardens, adjacent to the railway station, to the book fair all day long.  The buses leave the Memorial Gardens and The Knavesmire every thirty minutes.

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Key Details

Time & Date 10th January 2026, 10:30 - 16:30

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

Organisers Ken Spelman Books Tel: 07960 350909 Email: kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com
Janette Ray. Rare & Out of Print Books Tel: 01904 623088 Email: books@janetteray.co.uk
Lucius Books Tel: 01904 640111 Email: info@luciusbooks.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Parking

There is plenty of free parking on site.

Train

York, just over a mile away.

Bus

There will be a free shuttle bus running regularly from the Memorial Gardens, adjacent to the railway station, to the book fair.

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 Garland of Herbs.

WHITE, Elizabeth Wade (“Text collected by”); TAYLOR, Prentiss; [WADE, Martha Starkweather].

Arlington: The Winter Wheat Press/ Printed by E. L. Hildreth & Company

£185.00

Offered by Quair Books

Nothing, Or the Bookplate.

CRAIG, Edward Gordon; CARRICK, E. (Handlist); [CRAIG, Edy]; [DUNCAN, Isadora]; [IRWIN, Beatrice]; [SMITH, Pamela Coleman]; [ST. JOHN, Christopher]; [TERRY, Ellen].

London: Chatto & Windus

£250.00

Offered by Quair Books

Hand-book, Or New Guide of Naples: Containing a de...

POWER, Mrs [Jeannette de Villepreux]; [COTTON, Rowland].

Rome: Published by L. Piale, at the English and American Library and Reading Rooms. No. 1. Piazza di Spagna.

£350.00

Offered by Quair Books

[Four items of Anais Nin/ Peter Owen publishing- r...

[NIN, Anaïs]; [CROSLAND, Margaret]; [PATERSON, Mark]; [OWEN, Peter]

£175.00

Offered by Quair Books

Geography III

BISHOP, Elizabeth; KRUPAT, Cynthia (DJ design).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

£175.00

Offered by Quair Books

LARGE ENGLISH ATLAS MAP OF YORKSHIRE

E BOWEN

BOWEN BOWLES

£195.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

JOHN SPEED MAP OF YORKSHIRE C1611 1ST PRINTING

john speed

£395.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

[Unpublished Typescript Carbon Copy: ‘Some Modern...

[KELHAM, R. D. Langdale].

£250.00

Offered by Quair Books

The Diary of “Helena Morley”: [From Dust Jacket:]...

BISHOP, Elizabeth (translated & edited); MORLEY, Helen (i.e. Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant); [SMITH, William Jay].

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy.

£150.00

Offered by Quair Books

Unpublished manuscript letters from Spain 1835-183...

First Carlist War in Spain.

Reserved

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

Presbyteri Hispani Adversus Paganos Historiarum Li...

Pauli Orosii [ Paulus Orosius ]

Gerardum Potuliet

£500.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Lynn Chadwick

Bird, Michael

Lund Humphries

£50.00

Offered by Missing Books

Picturesque Europe - The British Isles (2 vol set)

Bonney, T.G. et al

Cassell, Petter & Galpin

£125.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Life of James McNeil Whistler (2 vol set)

Pennell, E.R and J.

William Heinmann

£185.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare...

Knight, Charles (ed)

Virtue, Spalding & Daldy

£300.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Yellow Book - volumes 1 -13 (complete set)

anon

Elkin Matthews / John Lane

£950.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Malay Archipelago ( The Land of the Orang-Utan...

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Folio Society

£350.00

Offered by Missing Books

Manuscript

Fortune Telling Manuscript

Reserved

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

CARS AND MOTORCYCLES

LORD MONTAGU

PITMAN

£75.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

A History of Liturgical Books: From the Beginning...

Palazzo, Eric

Pueblo Books

£18.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion

Blair, Kirstie

Oxford University Press

£30.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Strait Gate

Swan, Annie S.

S.W. Partridge & Co

£10.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian C...

Rappoport, Jill

Oxford University Press

£16.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Women's Life in the Nineteenth Century as seen in...

Ryle, Effie

National Adult School Union,

£12.00

Offered by C L Hawley

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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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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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.

R F Shipping Ltd

Contact:

Telephone: 0203 002 6026
Address

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

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