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.

Fever Crumb; Signed/remarqued copy of this Mortal...

Philip Reeve

Scholastic, London

£180.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Mortal Engines; Signed and Remarqued, Numbered Lim...

Philip Reeve

Scholastic, London

£250.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Folkestone 1862 - 1901

CORONER'S REPORT BOOK

£750.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

Narrative of A Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875...

Capt. Sir G.S. Nares, H.W. Feilden

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London

£600.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Novum Testamentum - Baskerville

New Testament

John Baskerville

£500.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Stories From The Pentamerone

Basile, Giambattista

£80.00

Offered by C L Hawley

A Song of the English

Kipling, Rudyard

Hodder and Stoughton,

£50.00

Offered by C L Hawley

The Sunshade, The Glove - The Muff

Uzanne, Octave

J. C. Nimmo and Bain,

£400.00

Offered by C L Hawley

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Illustrations.

DICKENS. CHARLES.

Chapman & Hall. London. 1870

£500.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

THE TWO JUNGLE BOOKS. The Jungle Book. The Second...

KIPLING. RUDYARD. ; Kipling. J. L and Drake. W. H. Illustrate.

Macmillan and co, Limited. London. 1924

£475.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

BYRON. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles.

MAUROIS. ANDRE. -- Extra illustrated edition.

Jonathan Cape. London. 1930

£375.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

REDGATE TABLE WATER BILLBOARD POSTER

REGATE TABLE WATERS

N LLOYD LONDON

£295.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

NO PLACE LIKE EARTH. A Science Fiction anthology.

CARNELL. JOHN. Edits. ; Arthur C. Clarke. John Wyndham. William F. Temple. & others.

T. V. Boardman & Company Limited. London. 1952

£125.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Golden Gate Suite

Karel Appel

Appel

£3400.00

Offered by David Maynard

SOUVENIRS DE LONDRES. -- 12 Hand coloured plates....

LAMI. EUGENE.

Lami Denozan. Paris.

£3250.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Canaletto's Sketchbook (2 vol set)

Scire, Giovanna Nepi

Canal & Stamperia Editrice

£45.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Tempest

Shakespeare, William (illus Edmund Dulac)

Hodder & Stoughton

£110.00

Offered by Missing Books

The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser

Macfall, Haldane

J. M. Dent

£45.00

Offered by Missing Books

WAR SPEECHES. Into Battle; The Unrelenting struggl...

CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.

Cassell and Company. London. 1941 - 46

£975.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

DIRECTORY 1979.

CLARKE. JOHN COOPER.

Omnibus Press. London. 1979

£175.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

**Signed** Drawing on Life the Autobiography of Pa...

Paul Hogarth

David & Charles

£70.00

Offered by Books Written By

The Complete Works of George Orwell.

ORWELL (George). DAVISON (Peter) Editor.

London: Secker & Warburg,

£3750.00

Offered by Forest Books

The Nature of Gothic; A Chapter of the Stones of V...

John Ruskin

The Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, and published by George Allen, Temple Bar, London, and Sunnyside, Orpington.

£2700.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

CARROLL. LEWIS. -- HUDSON. GWYNEDD. M. Illustrates.

Hodder & Stoughton Limited, London, for the Boots Pure Drug Company, Ltd, Notttingham. 1932

£350.00

Offered by Paul Foster 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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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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