York New Year

13th Jan 2024

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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 to the book fair all day long.  The buses leave the Memorial Gardens and The Knavesmire every thirty minutes.

Please scroll down to see the two-page floor plan and exhibitor list.

Key Details

Time & Date 13th January 2024, 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 and 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

From town centre. There will also be a FREE SHUTTLE BUS RUNNING REGULARLY FROM THE MEMORIAL GARDENS 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.

Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges

Kenneth Cox

Garden Art Press

£67.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Sivalaya, The 8000 metre peaks of the Himalaya

Louis Baume

Gaston-West Col

£157.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Assault On Mount Everest

C. G. Bruce

Edward Arnold

£295.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Everest: The Unfinished Adventure

Hugh Ruttledge

Hodder and Stoughton

£147.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Poltergeists

Sacheverell Sitwell

Faber and Faber

£127.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Great Days

Walter Bonatti

Victor Gollancz

£87.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Mountains of My Life

Walter Bonatti

Diadem

£147.00

Offered by Pete Fry

On The heights

Walter Bonatti

Daiaem

£177.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Northern Caves

D. Brook

Dalsman

£97.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Geographical Dictionary: Engraved Costume Plat...

Unknown

£137.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Farmer Giles of Ham

J. R. R. Tolkien

George Allen and Unwin

£95.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Tree and Leaf

J. R. R. Tolkien

Unwin

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

A bound volume of thirteen pamphlets of Trials and...

TRIALS AND CRIME.

Various publishers.

Reserved

Offered by Forest Books

London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1772.

MINIATURE BOOK.

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers,

£225.00

Offered by Forest Books

Unlucky John and his Lump of Silver. A juvenile co...

LEINSTEIN (Madame)

London: A. K. Newman & Co.,

£195.00

Offered by Forest Books

Return to the Irrawaddy

Frank Kindon-Ward

Andrew Melrose

£89.00

Offered by Pete Fry

John Wilhelm Rowntree Essays and Addresses

Joshua Rowntree

Headley Brothers

£147.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The History of Yorkshire. Vol 1

Plantagenet Harrison

Hazel, Watson and Viney

£575.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Poverty and Prostitution

Frances Finnegan

CUP

£67.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Memoirs of a Smuggler

John Rattenbury

J. Harvey

£177.00

Offered by Pete Fry

The Life and Times of Thomas gent

Thomas Gent

Thomas Gent

£147.00

Offered by Pete Fry

50 Years of Alpinism

Riccardo Cassin

Diadem

£375.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage

Hermann Buhl

Hodder and Stoughton

£975.00

Offered by Pete Fry

Everest 1933

Hugh Ruttledge

Hodder and Stoughton

£267.00

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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David Ford Books | David Ford Cley-next-the-Sea

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Delph Books | Frank Lamb Manchester

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D B Derbyshire Bookseller | David B Derbyshire Bacup

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David Whittaker | David Whittaker Chipping Norton

113

Daniel Ahern | Daniel Ahern Tidworth

16

Deep Neutral Books | Glenn Miller York

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Neil Summersgill | Neil Summersgill Blackburn

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Neil Ewart | Neil Ewart Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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Northern Herald Books | Robert Jones Brighouse

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Nicholas Daly Books | Nicholas Daly York

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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

Roo Waterhouse Art
Celebrate your life in books with a bespoke 'Shelf Portrait'. Roo Waterhouse’s detailed oil paintings of treasured and iconic books build up a portrait to resonate with your stories and reflect your life and passions. Rather like Desert Island Discs... Which books would you choose?

Contact:

Telephone: 07905 889773
Address

Northlight Art Studios
Valley Road
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6DG

Resources

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