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.

Walter Keeler

Emmanuel Copper & Amanda Fielding

City Gallery Leicester

£35.00

Offered by Yardley Books

James Morrison Land and Landscape

John Morrison

Sansom & Company

£75.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Adolphe Valette & L. S. Lowry

Celia Lyon ( SIGNED COPY )

Prose Book Publishing

£36.00

Offered by Yardley Books

Gillian Ayres

Mel Gooding

Lund Humpries

£32.00

Offered by Yardley Books

The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the Bri...

Meyrick, Samuel Rush & Smith, Charles Hamilton

T. M'Lean

£700.00

Offered by Missing Books

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Anonymous [Chambers, Robert]

John Churchill

£300.00

Offered by Books Written By

The Seasons, or Flower Garden. 1806.

HENDERSON, Peter Charles.

Ackermann

£1950.00

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

FOLIO SOCIETY 14 VOLUME COMPLETE SET !!!!

IAN FLEMING

FOLIO SOCIETY

£795.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire By W. Chambers Lefr...

W. Chambers Lefroy

Seeley Jackson & Halliday

£325.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

The Story of the Catacombs

Florence Edythe Blake-Hedges

Jennings and Graham

£50.00

Offered by Books Written By

UP-TO-DATE MOTOR ROAD TRANSPORT FOR COMMERCIAL PUR...

John Phillimore.

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.

£75.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MINE ENGINEERING.

G. C. Greenwell

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M. & M. W. Lambert

£150.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

CASH IS KING. The art of defaced banknotes.

OSBORNE, BOB. And REICHARDT, CARRIE.

Rebel not taken publishing, London.

£225.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

LARGE SCALE YORKSHIRE COMMERCIAL AND LIBRARY MAP

G BACON

BACON

£195.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

Manuel Élementaire pour la Construction et le Des...

PERROT, Aristide Michel.

£90.00

Offered by Ken Spelman Books Ltd

The Empty Quarter

H St J B Philby

Constable

£280.00

Offered by Books Written By

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.

R F Shipping Ltd

Contact:

Telephone: 0203 002 6026
Address

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

Resources

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

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Floor Plan & Exhibitors

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Membership of the PBFA is open to anyone who has been trading in antiquarian and second-hand books for a minimum of two years subject to certain criteria.

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