Oxford Book Fair

🎤To all our readers customers and #book lovers, we have good news 🙂😲. Our #Oxford Premier #Book Fair has been re-schedule for 17th-18th October. So, all being well we hope to be able to run a successful #book fair full of lovely #rarebooks, #antiquarianbooks, #prints, #maps and #ephemera. Please continue to stay safe and do visit our main website for all fair updates - pbfa.org. Oxfordshire Oxford Brookes University

Due to the Coronavirus and in the light of Government advice, for the protection of members health and in the recognition that public attendance at fairs will likely be reduced we have made the decision to cancel all fairs until the end of April.
We are trying to re-schedule our Oxford Premier for later in the year but nothing confirmed yet. We will keep all our customers informed but keep checking our website at www.pbfa.org for updates.
Despite our book fairs not going ah...ead for several weeks we have a huge selection of #secondhand, #rare and #antiquarian #books available. Don't be bored at home please do pop on our website and browse through our books for sale page https://www.pbfa.org/books where you can search via specialisms, price, author and title. Need help, email us at info@pbfa.org or call us on 01763 248400.
Stay safe and look after each other! Oxford, Oxfordshire LoveBookOnline Oxford Brookes University
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Morning book lovers our #Cambridge 📚Fair opens today which we hope will be a roaring success. 😉
I also wanted to share that we have ordered our usual #Oxford banners from our friendly, reliable supplier Baymedia (thank you guys) and they will be dressing the streets of #Oxford towards the end of March, so keep a lookout for those and don’t forget the dates 25-26 April at Oxford Brookes University. If you spot one take a selfie and send it to us so we can post on FB or Twitte...r or share and include us 😀.
Very soon, over 100 Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association - PBFA bookdealers will be walking the streets of #Oxford ladened with lots of lovely #rare, #secondhand and #antiquarian books as well as #maps, #prints and #ephemeral material. You have been warned but don’t worry we are friendly and can be approached! More updates later! Have a great day 👍 Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Greetings to you all! A new year and decade and yes, we will return in April at the Oxford Brookes University on 25-26th April, make a date in your diaries!
Hope to see our regular visitors and keeping our fingers crossed that we see some new faces too!. As time goes by this page will be updated with all the information about the fair. Complimentary tickets are on the web now and much more to come later... Keep your eyes peeled! 👀 Oxford, Oxfordshire LoveBookOnline LoveBooks Oxford Brookes University

📣It’s beginning to look Christmassy and only 11 days and our London #Christmas #Book Fair will open its festive doors on 7th December and you should come join us! Just over 60 bookdealers will be waiting with their large selection of #secondhand, #rare and #antiquarian #books, #maps, #ephemera and #1stEditions at prices to suit all pockets. Visit pbfa.org for your complimentary ticket and to view the fair catalogue and how to find us! The perfect place to find a #Christmas present.
Grab a mince pie or a glass of something and watch this first video of gems on the way to the fair! Enjoy! 😉 London,United Kingdoom LoveChristmas Fair LondonLife What's On In London Christmas Year Round

Afternoon! One day to go and the doors swing open at the Oxford Brookes University. Still time to grab your free tickets. I hope you enjoy and buy lots of books from our jolly bunch of book dealers. Good luck to all our exhibitors! 😀

Evening book lovers! Yes, March does start tomorrow - OMG I hear you say. Do not worry because we have the Oxford Book Fair which starts the month on a high. This 1st Italian Edition - a little beauty is coming along. Doors open noon 2nd March at Oxford Brookes University. We are ready - are you? More than 100 book dealers coming to Oxford, it’s gonna be very busy and you will have your choice of books, maps, prints, ephemera and more. A great two day fair! Come along and say hi. John Martin of Mayfly is the new Fair Manager this year so drop by his stand 80 and take a look at his goodies! Enjoy - grab your ticket at www.oxfordbookfair.org and view the catalogue, some highlights and all the exhibitors. Enjoy!Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association - PBFA

Evening - Oxford Book Fair countdown, check this out offered by Stephen Foster. Doors open Noon on Saturday 2nd March. Great two day book fair. Come on, join us and meet the jolly bunch of book sellers. Enjoy!

Coming to the Oxford Book Fair 2-3 March is the bestselling fantasy series. 📚This is a very special set of the first three Edge Chronicle Books, in slipcase. 1st Edition / 1st Paperback Print. Dated 1999, 2000, 2001. All book are signed by both author and illustrator. With a dedication by Paul Stewart to Book 1 'To Dawn, with our best wishes' Book 2 'To Dawn, very best wishes' Book 3 'To Dawn, best wishes' Hard to find now, as all three first books in series are now into later prints. These are all MINT. Offered by Books Written By. Stand 107, located in the Lawrence Room - ground floor. Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association - PBFA tickets and Fair catalogue at www.pbfa.org.

Another great gem coming to Oxford Book Fair 2-3 March. Not long now and Oxford will be buzzing with PBFA book dealers and hopefully all you lovely book buyers will be pushing through the doors. Plenty on offer for all. Grab your free ticket at www.pbfa.org and view the fair catalogue and exhibitors. Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association - PBFA. Oxford Brookes University Ashtonrarebooks Take a look at this 👀 I love it!
Ian Fleming Memorial : Signed By William Plomer
... One of the scarce cased copies. Plomer, William (Ian Fleming Interest) ~ Address Given at the Memorial Service for Ian Fleming. St Bartholomew the Great : Signed By William Plomer : Association Copy Westerham Press : 1964 The sole UK Printing. which was privately printed at the Westerham Press in 1964. The BOOK is in near Fine condition and is only one of the limited 50 hardcover copies issued. Original black boards, titles to label to front board in black. The book is in lovely condition with just a hint of toning to the page edges and the slightest of pushing at the spine ends. The book has been Inscribed and initialled by William Plomer to John Morris on the title page. Protected in a loose Mylar archive cover. An address given at the memorial for Ian Fleming, by the South African poet and novelist William Plomer. Plomer was a close friend of Fleming, his trusted Editor-in-chief and had been a publisher's reader for Jonathan Cape from 1937. He was instrumental in the publication of Fleming's work and was the very first reader of the James Bond debut 'Casino Royale’. He was also the dedicatee of Goldfinger (Gilbert p. 596). John Morris and William Plomer were close friends and had worked together over the years on many projects and Plomer often addressed himself as ‘W.P.’ to Morris. The recipient, Major Charles John Morris CBE, known as John, was a British mountaineer, anthropologist and journalist, and controller of 'BBC Radio's Third Programme’. From February 1943 to October 1943. He worked in the same department as George Orwell, at 200 Oxford Street. He wrote an article about Orwell, 'Some are more equal than others' for 'Penguin New Writing Number 40', September 1950 which was reprinted in 'Orwell Remembered 'with the title 'That Curiously Crucified Expression'. The Poet Laureate Stephen Spender described Morris in his Journals as: 'A not very daring promoter of the cause of culture, cruelly teased by his friend E.M. Forster, who referred to him as 'the pudding’'. Morris was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1957 and appeared as a 'castaway' on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 16 February 1959. Highly collectible with such attributes. BINDING: Hardcover CONDITION: Near Fine
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👀 Ashtonrarebooks will be exhibiting at Oxford Book Fair on 2-3 March and they will be bringing this little treasure with them! Visit www. pbfa.org for your free ticket and to view the online fair catalogue. Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association - PBFA
Thomas, Helen (H.T.) ~ As It Was Heinemann, London : 1926
... Very Scarce title with the Original Wrapper : Account of the courtship and early married life of the author, the wife of Edward Thomas, the English poet killed in the first World War.
The First UK printing published by Heinemann, London in 1926. The BOOK is in Very Good+ condition. Mild pushing and fading at the spine tips. Offsetting to the prelims with some light toning to the text-block and page edges. Mild spotting to the text block but the pages remain clean. Free from inscriptions and erasures. With the errata slip present. The fragile WRAPPER is complete and in Ver Good condition. Some loss at the upper spine end and a small chip to the lower rear spine fold. Toning to the spine with light fading of the red titling. The wrapper is lightly spotted but more-so to the plain flaps. Some staining to the lower front panel and lower spine end.
The wrapper remains very presentable in the removable Brodart archival cover. The first part of the author's memoir recounting the courtship and early married life to Edward Thomas, the English poet killed in the first World War. This copy is the expurgated form having two cancelled leaves with two pages reinserted (pages 53-56). The publishers removed the two leaves to censor a passage which is quite short and rather more intimate than the rest and referred to 'David' kissing her body and undressing. It is thought that less than ten copies exist of the unexpurgated form of this title. A very scarce title. BINDING: Hardcover CONDITION: Very Good+ JACKET: Very Good
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