The Assembly Rooms ,
corner of Alfred & Bennet St. BA1 2QH

Friday April 23,
1pm - 6.00pm

Saturday April 24,
10.30 am - 4.00pm

Admission £2

Where is it? - map

Please click here for a map of the town and directions to Bath or use the ""Travel and Hotel" Link above

BOOK FAIRS 2010

If you are unable to get to Bath, then take a look at other PBFA Book Fairs nearer to home this year.
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PBFA
The Sign of a Good Book Fair

The Provincial Booksellers Association has been organising book fairs since 1974. We aim to provide a wide ranging selection of books at all prices, in a variety of subjects, for both the reader and the serious collector. Wherever possible we welcome disabled visitors to our fairs and strive to provide a relaxed atmosphere in which customers may browse at leisure.

Who is the Book Fair For?

Anyone interested in books, collecting and reading. This is a Fair designed for everyone young and old, and a great place to start collecting. You will find books from over 500 years old to modern first editions, and everything in between. With over 50,000 books for sale, where else can you look at, touch, enjoy, and even purchase so many rarities under one roof? If you are already a collector then it is a great opportunity to meet new dealers in your area.

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Welcome to the Bath Book Fair 2010

Following the success of last year's fair, we return to the Assembly Rooms for the annual Bath Book Fair. Around 90 booksellers from all over the country will be offering for sale thousands of books on all subjects, as well as other items such as maps, prints, original art work, posters, manuscript material, autographs, postcards and all manner of printed ephemera.

Refreshments, including a full lunch menu, will be available at the Assembly Rooms cafe, within the fair, on both Friday and Saturday. The cafe is licensed for wines and beers. The venturesome will find that the Rooms are in an area rich in restaurants, cafes and bars. Your admission ticket to the fair is valid for re-entry to the fair over both days.

There is a large public car park nearby ( Charlotte Street ). For customers travelling by public transport we are within easy reach of the bus and railway stations and very close to the park and ride bus services from large out of town car parks.

If the vast amount of books on show at the fair is not quite enough for you visitors should note that there are two of Britain's better antiquarian bookshops in the city. Bath Old Books at Margarets Buildings ( just around the corner from the Assembly Rooms ) and Bayntuns ( opposite the railway station ). For new books we have a large and busy Waterstones and two high quality independents, Mr B's and Toppings.

The non-bookish will find Bath not only an unrivalled retail therapy centre but also an architectural gem ( well, most of it! ).

If you would like a complimentary ticket for the fair please follow the link above.

Bath

Bath is renowned for its Georgian architecture, with elegant squares, crescents, public buildings et al. The city is not huge and is thus particularly well suited to exploration on foot.

Highlights include the Assembly Rooms, the Guild Hall, Bath Abbey, the Holburne Museum and the iconic Pulteney Bridge. The city's green spaces are also renowned, especially Victoria Park and Sydney Gardens.

The cosmopolitan feel of Bath is added to by many fashionable independent shops, numerous galleries and book shops and the more usual high street names. The area around the railway station is now home to one of the most impressive new retail areas in the West Country.

Links for Visitors

Victoria Art Gallery
Jane Austen Centre,
Bath Postal Museum
Museum of Fashion
Bath's Spa
Bath Tourist Board

P.B.F.A. Premier Fairs

All our fairs are good, but at these selected major two-day fairs around the country we aim to try that little bit harder to put on a special show:

OXFORD: Saturday & Sunday 23rd and 24th January at Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington.

CAMBRIDGE:Friday & Saturday 19th and 20th February in the historic Guildhall building in Market Square.

EDINBURGH: Friday & Saturday 12th & 134th March in the splendid Robert Adam designed Assembly Rooms in George Street (run jointly with the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association)

HARROGATE: Friday & Saturday 19th & 20th March at the Pavilions of Harrogate, Great Yorkshire Showground

BATH: Friday & Saturday 23rd & 24th April in the magnificent Assembly Rooms on the corner of Alfred & Bennet Street

YORK: Friday & Saturday 10th & 11th September in the marvellously spacious Knavesmire Suite of York Racecourse - some 200 exhibitors. We even lay on a free shuttle bus from York railway station to make book buying even easier for our visitors.