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.

The Fables of Aesop (Leather bound, limited editio...

Aesop (illus Edward J. Detmold)

Hodder & Stoughton

£150.00

Offered by Missing Books

Bill the Minder (Leather bound, limited edition)

Heath Robinson, W.

Hodder & Stoughton

£95.00

Offered by Missing Books

Faeries

Brian Froud, Alan Lee, David Larkin (Edited By)

Harry N Abrams Inc

£50.00

Offered by Books Written By

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Bir...

Winston S Churchill

Cassell

£35.00

Offered by Books Written By

The Story of an African Farm

Schreiner, Olive

Hutchinson

£60.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Old Herbaceous

Arkell, Reginald and illustrated by John Minton

Michael Joseph,

£30.00

Offered by C L Hawley

SIGNED - A Suit of Diamonds: A commemorative volum...

Barnard, Robert, Gwendoline Butler, Sarah Caudwell, Elizabeth Ferrars, Anthea Fraser, Reginald Hill, Charlotte Macleod, John Malcolm, Patricia Moyes, Michael Pearce, Mike Ripley , Martin Russell and Eric Wright

William Collins Sons & Co.,

£75.00

Offered by C L Hawley

John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach

Fraser Jenkins, David and Frances Spalding

Merrell

£35.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Sunlight on the Lawn

Nichols, Beverley

Jonathan Cape

£35.00

Offered by C L Hawley

Maud and Other Poems

TENNYSON, Lord Alfred

Edward Moxon & Co.

Reserved

Offered by K Books Ltd

Un Debut Dans La Magistrature

SANDEAU, Jules

Calmann Levy

£480.00

Offered by K Books Ltd

The Alcoran of Mahomet, Translated Out Of Arabick...

[THE QURAN/QUR'AN]

Printed, And Are To Be Sold by Randal Taylor

Reserved

Offered by K Books Ltd

Reflections on Duelling

INGRAM, Rowland

Printed for J. Hatchard

£70.00

Offered by K Books Ltd

The Complete Herbal; To Which Is Now Added, Upward...

CULPEPER, Nicholas

Thomas Kelly

£350.00

Offered by K Books Ltd

Epistolae ad Atticum, Summa Diligentia ... bound w...

CICERO

Robert Stephani Estienne

£950.00

Offered by K Books Ltd

De Catholicae Ecclesiae Divinis Officiis ac Minist...

HITTORPIUS, Melchoir

In Aedibus Populi Romani, Apud Georgium Ferrarium

£2000.00

Offered by K Books Ltd

Spenser's Faerie Queene

Walter Crane

George Allen

£1500.00

Offered by Tom W Ayling

Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary

M.R. James

Edward Arnold

£2500.00

Offered by Tom W Ayling

God The Father And Christ

[French Illuminator]

£3500.00

Offered by Tom W Ayling

The Lord Of The Rings (First Deluxe Edition, 1963)

J.R.R. Tolkien

George Allen & Unwin

£7500.00

Offered by Tom W Ayling

Interview with the Vampire

Rice, Anne

Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Limited

£750.00

Offered by Fine Book Cellar

Going Shopping. Scarce #101589

'Marianne' Photgraphs by Alexander Bender

Collins

£35.00

Offered by Sarah Key Books

An History of Fungusses, Growing About Halifax ......

BOLTON, James

Printed For The Author and Sold in Halifax By Him ...

£3000.00

Offered by K Books Ltd

The Arctic World: Its Plants, Animals, And Natural...

[ADAMS, William Henry Davenport]

T. Nelson and Sons

£100.00

Offered by K Books Ltd

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

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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

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Ian Marr Rare Books | Ian Marr Edinburgh

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Love Rare Books | Deborah Davis St Leonards On Sea

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Yesterday's Books | David Weir Bournemouth

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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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