Event Information

If you are travelling to the fair by train on Saturday 21st, please note that there are no trains between London Kings Cross and Peterborough, with passengers being directed via Kings Cross/Tottenham Hale/Cambridge.  

Welcome to our fabulous Cambridge book fair extravaganza.

Around 70 dealers, some long-standing, some new, will be offering a huge quantity of collectable and decorative printed material.

Cheffins of Cambridge are kindly sponsoring the fair.

The photograph shows the stained glass window and murals in the church. 

Please scroll to the bottom of the page to download the floor plan and exhibitor list.  

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Key Details

Time & Date 20th February 2026, 12:00 - 18:00 21st February 2026, 10:00 - 16:30

Venue St. Barnabas Church, Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BD

Organisers Sarah Key Books Tel: 01223 312913 Email: philsalin@gmail.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 2.00

Travel Information

Parking

There are 38 spaces in the Gwydir Street car park just opposite the church building (maximum stay 2 hours). Limited on-road parking is also available in the vicinity. Long Stay Parking is available at Queen Anne's Terrace, Gonville Place.

Train

N.B. Sat 21st - Engineering works on the London Kings Cross to Cambridge line. Venue is about 5-10 mins walk from the station. Follow signs for Mill Road and Gwydir Street.

Bus

Stagecoach number 2 runs from Milton Park and Ride (stop number 1) via the city centre and stops directly outside the venue at Gwydir Street. There are regular buses from Trumpington Park and Ride to the Railway Station.

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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.

Velvet Johnnie & other stories

Peter Cheyney

Collins

£20.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

Arthur Holmes’ sporting Box of Delights

HOLMES, Arthur

£2500.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR ERA PHOTOGRAPHS

RUSSIA

£2500.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

Manuscripts: “On the Difficulties of Keith’s Treat...

RYALL, Thomas

manuscript

£695.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

Georgian Grand Tour album 1828, Emily Schiffner

SCHIFFNER,Emily

manuscript

£495.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

THE KOREAN WAR

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

£650.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

Lt. Frederick Luxmore’s equestrian and military al...

LUXMORE,Frederick

manuscript

£875.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

C18th French ‘Cahier d’Armes’ sword fighting manus...

after ANGLEO, Domenice

£750.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

Watercolours of Yorkshire Naturalist S.L.Moseley.

MOSELEY, S.L.

unpublished manuscript

£296.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

Mary’s shell watercolours circa 1830.

[HILLHOUSE, Mary]

Unpublished manuscript

£1500.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

Album of cut out silhouette flowers and plants

CLARKE, J

unpublished manuscript

£450.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

Very scarce Metamorphic chapbook 1814

SANDS, Benjamin

Published by Samuel Wood No. 357 Pearl Street and Printed by Joseph Rakestraw, Philidelphia

£1500.00

Offered by John Underwood Antiquarian Books

"Thoughts on Drawing" with an appreciation by Lott...

MELLON, Eric James

Inky Parrot Press

£180.00

Offered by Janette Ray, Rare and Out of Print Books

Fallback item for books

The History and Antiquities of the Conventual & Ca...

BENTHAM James

Norwich Printed by and for Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson

£550.00

Offered by Janette Ray, Rare and Out of Print Books

New Designs for Ornamental Glass and Leaded Lights...

[ORNAMENTAL GLASS] Baxendale & Co Ltd Manchester

Published by the firm

£120.00

Offered by Janette Ray, Rare and Out of Print Books

A la Montagne

Mme de Witt, née Guizot

Hachette

£40.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Arts and Crafts of Old Japan

Dick, Stewart

T. N. Foulis

£225.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Folded Story I Wilhelm Tell

HONEGGER-LAVATER, Warja. [ 1913-2007]

Verlag von Basilius Press

£220.00

Offered by Janette Ray, Rare and Out of Print Books

The Water Babies

Kingsley, Charles

Hodder and Stoughton / Boots the Chemist

£80.00

Offered by C L Hawley

In Place of Toothpaste - three essays celebrating...

Powers, Alan / Kitts, Barry / Maddox, Ronald

Incline Press

£110.00

Offered by Missing Books

Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters & Design (2 vol...

Ullmann, Anne / Whittick, Christopher / Lawrence, Simon

Fleece Press

£400.00

Offered by Missing Books

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (leather bound, li...

Barrie, J.M. (illus Arthur Rackham)

Hodder & Stoughton

£165.00

Offered by Missing Books

Peter Pan and Wendy (Leather bound, limited editio...

Barrie, J.M. (illus Mabel Lucie Attwell)

Hodder & Stoughton

£100.00

Offered by Missing Books

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (leather bound, limite...

Andersen, Hans (illus Heath Robinson)

Hodder & Stoughton

£100.00

Offered by Missing 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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Chris Crook | Chris Crook Weston-super-Mare

0

Claremont Books and Prints | Suzanne & Gordon Leete Market Harborough

96

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

46

Donald Munro | Donald Munro St Albans

0

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Ian Marr Rare Books | Ian Marr Edinburgh

10

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Love Rare Books | Deborah Davis St Leonards On Sea

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

17

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

0

Resources

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