London Rare & Antiquarian Book Fair

16th May 2026, 17th May 2026

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Event Information

One of our largest premier antiquarian book fairs featuring almost a hundred UK and international booksellers showcasing rare books, maps, prints, ephemera, collector items and more to suit all pockets.  There will be a range of specialisms, from Modern First Editions, Children’s Literature, History, Travel, Sport, and Religion, to name but a few.

The fair is kindly sponsored by Forum Auctions.

FREE admission, but you can download the 'complimentary ticket' with the fair details. 
Please scroll down to the bottom for the link to the floor plan.

Refreshments available at the venue.

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Key Details

Time & Date 16th May 2026, 13:00 - 19:00 17th May 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue ILEC Conference Centre, IBIS London Earls Court, 47 Lillie Road, London, SW6 1UD

Organisers Hereward Books Tel: 01353 740821 Email: sales@herewardbooks.co.uk

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Travel Information

Train

West Brompton - 5 minute walk to Ibis London Earls Court.

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Underground

Earls Court underground.

Driving

The venue is a quarter of a mile (400m) from the A4, providing easy access to the M4, M5 and M40.

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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.

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 RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.

COLERIDGE. SAMUEL TAYLOR. ; GRANT. GORDON, Illustrates.

For members of the Heritage Club. New York. 1938

£350.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

MOBY DICK. Or, The Whale.

MELVILLE. HERMAN. ; KENT. ROCKWELL. Illustrates.

Random House. New York. 1930

£875.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

Un An à Rome et dans ses Environs, Recueil de Dess...

Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas

Edizioni di Gabriele e Mariateresa Benincasa, Rome

£350.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Philosophical Transactions 1698 and 1699 Two volum...

SAVERY, Thomas, and LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni. Also Halley, Derham, Evelyn, Wallis, Southwell, Dampier, Cassini, Ray, Tyson, Musgrave, Moivre, Lister, Thoresby, Cowper

London: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford.

£3500.00

Offered by Celsus Books

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Illustrations.

DICKENS. CHARLES.

Chapman & Hall. London. 1870

£500.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

SOUVENIRS DE LONDRES. -- 12 Hand coloured plates....

LAMI. EUGENE.

Lami Denozan. Paris.

£3250.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

First Edition Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street

£3750.00

Offered by Peter Foster Books

On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ag...

Blakeney, William.

London: Elliot Stock

£975.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

The Seasons . . . And With the Life of the Author...

[Binding.] James Thomson.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

£100.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

THE TRYAL OF DR. HENRY SACHEVERELL. Before the Hou...

SACHEVERELL. Dr. HENRY.

Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Grays-Inn Gate in Grays-Inn-Lane. London. 1710

£400.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

The History of the Union of Great Britain

Daniel Defoe

Published by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty

£1500.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Bookshelf Art Cards

Roo Waterhouse Art

£3.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

'007'

Roo Waterhouse

Original Oil Painting

£1600.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

'Portico Library'

Roo Waterhouse

Original Oil Painting

£2800.00

Offered by Roo Waterhouse Art

ALICE`S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With the origina...

CARROLL. LEWIS. ; TENNIEL. JOHN. Illustrates.

Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, for the Riccardi Press, London.

£975.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A SHORT RESIDENCE IN SWEDEN...

WOLLSTONECRAFT. MARY.

J. Johnson. London.

£1350.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

BRAZILIAN FLOWERS - PROOF BEFORE LETTER

NORTON, Edith Holland

£12500.00

Offered by Michael S Kemp Bookseller

'Dangerous Work', Diary of an Arctic Adventurer. F...

Arthur Conan Doyle. Edited by Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower.

The British Library

£500.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

1779 ARTILLARY MANUSCIPT

.

£1150.00

Offered by Hereward Books

Nineteen Eighty Four. First Edition/First Impressi...

George Orwell

Secker & Warburg

£3499.99

Offered by Endpaper Books

AN INTERESTING NINETEENTH CENTURY COOKERY MANUSCRI...

Mrs Farrer

None

£245.00

Offered by Celsus Books

THE ART OF ILLUMINATING. As Practised in Europe Fr...

W. R. TYMMS. and WYATT. M. D(igby). -- Fine binding by The Ashley Bindery.

Day and Son. Lithographers to the Queen. London. Published April 2nd 1860.

£1750.00

Offered by Paul Foster Books

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

W. Chambers Lefroy

Seeley Jackson & Halliday

£325.00

Offered by Neil Summersgill

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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Zetetic Books | Conor Pattenden Berkhamsted

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Resources

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Floor Plan & Exhibitors

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