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.

Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb (...). Together...

Watson, Joseph

Darton and Harvey

Reserved

Offered by Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

I shall spit on your graves. With an introduction...

Vian, Boris (under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan)

The Vendôme Press

£1250.00

Offered by Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Volume I - VI. Ed....

Woolf, Virginia

The Hogarth Press

£475.00

Offered by Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

TLS. Dated 12 December 1979.

Berlin, Isaiah

£550.00

Offered by Undercover Books

The Secret Adversary

Christie, Agatha

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head

£3350.00

Offered by Undercover Books

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR ERA PHOTOGRAPHS

RUSSIA

£2500.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

THE KOREAN WAR

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

£650.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

"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

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

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

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

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

Un Debut Dans La Magistrature

SANDEAU, Jules

Calmann Levy

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

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

99

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

46

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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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