Event Information

This popular book fair is held in the centre of this Leicestershire market town, with around 20 book dealers selling second-hand, rare and antiquarian books, maps, prints and ephemera.  Come and say hello - everybody welcome!  

Full range of refreshments available.

The second fair of the year here will be on Wednesday 30th December. 

Key Details

Time & Date 9th May 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Congregational Church Centre, High Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7JD

Organisers Phil Woolley, Black Cat Bookshop Tel: 07850 795207 Email: blackcatuk@aol.com

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Ticket Information

Admission £ 1.00

Travel Information

Train

Just under a mile from Market Harborough railway station.

Driving

A4304 is the nearest major trunk route.

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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.

Savage Life in New Guinea. The Papuan in many Mood...

Abel, Charles W.

London Missionary Society. London.

£25.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Oceania. Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropo...

Kjellgren, Eric.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & Yale University Press, New Haven.

£30.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Pacific Art. Persistence, Change and Meaning.

Herle, Anita. (& others).

Crawford House Publishing, Adelaide.

£25.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological...

Pawley, Andrew (& others).

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

£40.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Ritual Arts of Oceania. New Ireland in the Collect...

Gunn, Michael

Skira Editore, Milan & Musee Barbier-Mueller, Geneva.

£25.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Smoking and Tobacco Pipes in New Guinea.

Haddon, A.C.

Royal Society of London.

£175.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Music in New Guinea. Three Studies.

Kunst, Jaap.

Martyinus Nijhoff, 'S-Gravenhage.

£15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

The Melanesian Cargo Cult. Millenarianism as a fac...

Christiansen, Palle.

Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen.

£25.00

Offered by Peter Moore

*SIGNED* Yennoworrameanlike, Get Yer Wack, Scouse...

Brian Jacques

Raven Books, Anvil Press,

£280.00

Offered by Fiona Edwards

Masonic Facts and Fictions Comprising a New Theory...

Henry Sadler

Diprose and Bateman

£150.00

Offered by Fiona Edwards

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming

Charles Scribner's Sons

£195.00

Offered by Books Written By

History of the War in the Peninsula and in the Sou...

Napier, Major-General Sir W.F.P

Thomas & William Boone

£350.00

Offered by Missing Books

A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Joh...

Johnson, Samuel & Todd, Rev H. J.

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown

£350.00

Offered by Missing Books

Sixteen scenes taken from the Miseries of Human Li...

J.A. Atkinson

Wm Miller Albermarle Street

£450.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Illustrations of Stratford upon Avon and the life...

Shakespeare and Stratford

F and E Ward, Stratford upon Avon

£150.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Poems descriptive of rural life and scenery. Third...

John Clare, a Northamptonshire peasant

Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street; and E. Drury, Stamford

£220.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing...

Benvenuto Cellini

Essex House Press

£175.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

PLAYFUL AND PENSIVE POEMS

BOB TUFFNELL

£19.95

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

X MEN ESSENTIAL COLLECTION VOLUME 1 TO 8 INCLUSIVE

STAN LEE

MARVEL

£95.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

12 VOLUME SET OF SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

ARTHUR RANSOME

J CAPE

£125.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

KIPPERS AND SAWDUST

RIGBY GRAHAM

OLD STILE PRESS

£325.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

PRINCESS AND THE PEA

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON

KEN FERGUSON

£95.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

PALLADIOS HOMES

D PYE

OLD SCHOOL PRESS

£295.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

CHINA IN EUROPEAN MAPS A LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIO...

MIN MIN CHANG

HONG KONG UNIVERSITY

£95.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

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.

Exhibitors A-Z

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Books

C

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Books

Claremont Books and Prints | Suzanne & Gordon Leete Market Harborough

102

D

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Books

F

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Fiona Edwards | Fiona Edwards Mansfield

71

I

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Images in Print | Jane Jaques Nottingham

0

J

Name & Trading Name

Showing 4 Results

Name

Books

L

Name & Trading Name

Showing 2 Results

Name

Books

M

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

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Missing Books | Chris Missing Chelmsford

457

P

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Peter Moore | Peter Moore Cambridge

448

S

Name & Trading Name

Showing 2 Results

Name

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Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

115

Stephen Rench | Stephen Rench Shipston on Stour

11

Guest Exhibitors

We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.

Chris Newbold - Old Postcards

Contact:

Telephone: 07530 304565
Address

Belton-in-Rutland
Rutland

Resources

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