Duplicate Copies, PART IV

I've just unloaded my dupes, but the previous thread was getting long. Anyone have a treasure to give away?

It is not a Virago, but perhaps someone will be interested.
Last Saturday, at a library sale, I picked up a copy of A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen, only to realize I already have it once I got home and on LT.
Does anybody want to adopt it?
:-))

Is it a hard cover? I only have a mass market paperback.

No, it is not. It is published by Anchor Books, and it is a trade paperback, the larger one.
I had totally forgotten I have a hardcover, first edition......my brain is slightly better than a sieve!

I have the following duplicates looking for good homes:

Belinda by Rhoda Broughton;

The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold;

Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West;

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (VMC Edition);

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (VMC Edition)(has cracking to the spine (ouch!!) and a little water damage but otherwise ok).

> 2 Paola, since I have a copy (even thought it is not as good) I think I'll wait and see if someone else might want it.

Oh, mrspenny, may I have Belinda? It sounds delightful!

Certainly marise - I will get it off to you in the next couple of days..

mrspenny -- could I have The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold? I seem to remember reading Enid Bagnold long ago and would love to renew the acquaintance.

mrspenny, I know I'm new, but I was wondering if you could part with Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West to me. It sounds like an interesting introduction to VMC.

Mrs P, may I have Pride and Prejudice? Believe it or not, I neither own it, nor have I read it. But I've seen the movie.

# 9 & 11 -definitely - will send them on their way shortly.

#10 - Of course nmhale - very glad to help in getting your collection underway ..

if you leave your address on my profile page I will send it on its way and I hope you have many happy years of collecting and reading the VMCs..

Christina - I 'm sure you will enjoy P & P - I try and read it at least once a year!!

#5 Oh Mrspenny Enid Bagnold - I remember her from my childhood. Was it International Velvet. Can't find it and the touchstones are not helping.

If I may I would love the Virago copy of Sense and Sensibility. I will give it a good home =)

ETA so sorry I made a spelling mistake with your name mrspenny.

Juliette - It was National Velvet and I wasn't aware that she was the author until now - isn't the depth of the knowledge on this board marvellous - Sense and Sensibility will be off to you in the next few days..the spine is quite creased but I would classify it in good condition..

Oh thank you so very much and for helping my memory along. I was just searching and I returned to find you had already replied.

There is good summary of Bagnold's life on the Guardian.co.uk website dated 31 May 2008 by Margaret Drabble..Her writing was in the news in your summer because her play "The Chalk Garden" was performed at the Donmar Warehouse, London during the summer.
Do you know this theatre?

I understand the definitive biography of Bagnold was written by Anne Sebba.

BTW - Margaret Drabble wrote the new introduction for the VMC edition of Sense.

I came across a copy of Enid Bagnold's autobiography a while ago. I have yet to read it, but it looks very promising.

So, nobody wants the Elizabeth Bowen? :-(

Oooh I will I will!! (I say just catching up on posts). And what good timing, I must commend myself! I've had a bit of an Elizabeth Bowen streak this year. I'd love it aluvalibri! Though I am moving back to the US next week...shall I just wait until I get my new address?

Excellent! Just leave me a message with your address and I will send it to you, hopefully by Saturday.
:-))

christiguc -- you've not read P&P? That's about as heinous as my recent confession on another thread, of not having read any DuMaurier. Please join me in the naughty corner.

marise, juliette07 - I love the film of National Velvet starring a very young Elizabeth Taylor (the actress, not the author!) Have you seen it?

Laura, that brings back memories of my childhood.....

christiguc, I love P&P and sincerely hope you do too.

Christina,

Not read the big P&P! Oh my stars!!!!! What I would give to be a Jane Austen virgin again and be reading all of her works for the first time. Alas, I lost my Jane Austen virginity in the 4th grade. I've not been the same since.

Ditto as urania said. How I wish I had never read them and had to begin.....what a treat you are in for!

P&P is wonderful, but I think I like Sense and sensibility even better! However I will say it's been a long time since I read it. The only Austen I just didn't enjoy was Emma. *dodges flying figs thrown by angry Austen fans*

I know it's brilliant and all that, but Emma herself is the kind of person who drives me crazy, and spending a whole book with her was just too much (although I did like Mr. Knightley.)

I agree with you, aviddiva, about Emma. But I'm one of those odd people who feel an inordinate fondness for Fanny Price, who is essentially the anti-Emma. It says something about my own personality, I guess.

I'm with urania and aluvalibri - I wish I could read them for the first time all over again. Jane Austen is certainly one of my favorite authors. Reading P & P when I was a kid totally changed my ideas about what "literature" was.

Oh dear, has Christina been sent to the catching up on your reading corner as well.

Ah poor Fanny. I have always been a fan of Persuasion and the fun of Northanger Abbey

Okay. I'll join Laura in the naughty corner. But I'll bring cookies. :) (And fig bars)

YUM! See you there!

As for me, I distinctly anti-Fanny Price. She's a little cat that one. However, I have noticed that male readers of Austen invariably have a soft spot for Fanny.

Urania! Be careful where you fling around those italicized males! You might hit someone!

Fanny Price fascinates me from a narratological standpoint because in many ways she acts as a kind of reader-within-the-novel. She observes and judges, and provides a moral center, but she refuses to act. Emma Woodhouse, on the other hand, is more a surrogate author: she tries to shape the plot.

I'm also partial to Mansfield Park because memory is an important theme in the novel, and I wrote my dissertation on memory in the poetry of Vergil. I also love the novel because I visited, and (for a year) lived near Stoneleigh Abbey, which is the model for one of the locales in the novel (see my guest blogger appearance on AustenBlog).

*End of defensive self-justification inspired by being tarred with my gender!*

I'm in the anti-Fanny Price corner. However I do have a few duplicates to atone for this and my other sins of which I am sure there are many ;)

VMC editions of
My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
The Corn King and The Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison

a black Virago edition of
Testament of Experience by Vera Brittain

and
some Dial Press editions of
The Seimi-Attached Couple & The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden
Frost in May by Antonia White
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor

fabrile-heart, I would love to give a good home to Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen please. I am in UK.

Louise, may I please have Testament of Experience?
Thank you!!!!!!
:-))

Oh, I loved the film the Chalk Garden with Hayley Mills. I didn't realize the play was written by Enid Bagnold. Haven't seen it for years. ...

>35 englishrose60: You may indeed! Just leave me a PM with your address :)

>36 aluvalibri:, Miss P, don't tell me I can finally send you a title you don't have ;)

Yes! I don't have that one!!
:-))

P.S. Actually, I don't even have a decent copy of My Career Goes Bung, because the one I have is BOUND in black cloth...AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can have The Semi-Attached Couple & The Semi-Detached House? Thanks.

May I have Angel?

May I have My Career Goes Bung, please and thanks?

Yes, yes and thrice yes! It's not often I get to endorse the positive lately. Please leave your addresses as a PM on my profile page and I will send the books to you next week - am off to a beer festival tomorrow so will be in no fit state to present myself at the Post Office, hic ;)

I have an extra copy of Frost in May to give away. It's not the green one but it's not the new cover either. It's the 2001 edition. Does anyone want it?

There are two (!) copies of The Brontes Went to Woolworths for sale right now on Amazon UK for .01 each.

UGH! so close ... there was one left, but someone must have completed checkout faster than I did because the site gave me an error just as I was about to enter payment details.

aviddiva, thank you so much for the alert!! It's fun to try anyway.

Free to good home: Penguin (green cover) edition of Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle ...

Oh might I please give Mary Lavelle a home? I promise to be kind and nurturing.

Certainly, Jane, it's my pleasure. I'll put it in the mail to you tomorrow.

Thanks so much, Laura, and a double thanks as Frost in May greeted me from my mailbox as I returned home -- so much nicer than grading midterms!

Happy to provide a distraction Jane ... and you can expect another in due course!

I have an extra of Rebecca West's The Judge. I'm willing to ship worldwide to whoever is interested!

Please, Christiguc, if no one has already requested it I'd love to have The Judge!

Liz--Yes you may! I have your address, so I will send it off to you on Wednesday.

Thank you!

Two books seek new homes.

Both are orange Penguins, but one has been published by Virago and the other soon will be.

The former is Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge.

The second - extraordinarily, I have found two cheap copies of an out of print book in a matter of days - is Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons !

Oh! May I have Nightingale Wood please?
Thank you!
:-))

Yes Paola, of course you may!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Illyrian Spring is still available and you want to send it to the states I would love to give it a home.

Illyrian Spring is available and willing to travel and will be on the way to you shortly!

Thank you so much!

I have an extra copy of Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett of the "traditional" Penguin VMC green cover variety. Who would like to give it a home?

Me! Me!

Edited because I forgot my manners: Please may I? :)

Christina - Now that you've settled down and asked so nicely, the answer is most sincerely, Yes. ;-)

You can either post your address on my LT profile page or e-mail it to me. If the weather is as beautiful as they say it's supposed to be tomorrow, I most likely won't get it in the mail until Monday.

Hey, I just started reading Bobbin Up. Christina, I think you'll like it!

Oh yes, Christina, you will!

I've heard many good things about it, especially recently. If Laura, Paola, Christine, and Amanda are all recommending it--it must be good! Thank you, Talbin!

Agreed - Christina - you will enjoy "Bobbin Up"..

* drumming fingers on table *

Didn't Cariola receive a giant box of Viragos from her PBS friend recently? I seem to recall she was exercising great restraint in NOT opening the box right away. But hey, it's been a week ... throw us a crumb Cariola?

:-)

Yes, and I still haven't opened it, but plan to do so tonight. If there are any duplicates, I will post them, but I did let Mary know in advance which of her books I already owned, so it's not likely there will be any. Sorry! She has been so kind in sharing that I didn't want to ask for duplicates; she is retired and posts books on PBS.

Ah, I see ... ok then! Enjoy your box-opening in any case!

So I do have a few duplicates from the box that Mary sent. Who would like to give them a nice home?

Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott. Green cover with a bit of edge wear bu otherwise in fine condition.

Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor. Cover has some creases and wear and there is a stamp inside the front cover. Penguin edition.

Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith. Former library copy, so it has a few stamps and (drat!) plastic laminated to the cover. Black Dial Press edition.

May I have Palladian? I thought I owned a copy, but I don't, and I wish I did.

I would love Millenium Hall, Cariola. Please and thanks?

Rob, it's yours. Please leave your address on my profile page and I'll get it out next week.

Tiffin, I still have your address. Happy to send you Millenium Hall.

Not a duplicate as such but an original green VMC that I would like to pass on as it is a BookCrossing book, passed onto me by LyzzyBee. Having said that, there is no pressure to pass it on yourself, if you would like for your Virago library!

It is Mary O'Grady by Mary Levin and a bit of a weepy! Am happy to post wherever...

Soupdragon, I could give Mary O'Grady a good home if your willing to send to UK.

Oops. you live in UK too.

#76: thank you!

#78,

Yes, I am also a (somewhat faded) English rose, so posting it to you is no problem!

Just PM me your details and I'll post it next week.

No takers for Joanna Godden? I should mention that it is in very good conditiong (aside from having a laminated cover).

Cariola -- I don't mind laminated covers -- I won't treat her like a poor cousin -- I'd love to have Joanna Godden if you please.

82> She's all yours. Just post your address on my profile page.

61 -Jane, Illyrian Spring arrived yesterday! Thank you!

13 - Dear Patricia Thank you very much for Sense and Sensibilty plus the other delightful suprises which arrived yesterday.

I have an extra copy of Virginia Woolf, a Critical Memoir by Winifred Holtby (paperback, Cassandra editions, Academy Press.) Not a virago, but certainly a nice virago companion. Any takers?

I would be very interested in that one, thanks aviddiva.

Great! Leave me a private message with your address and I will send it on to you.

I picked up an extra copy of the following today:
The Wedding Group
The Curate's Wife

Please may I rehome The Curate's Wife if you don't mind posting to the UK?

I would love The Wedding Group, if you don't mind sending to Canada.

# 90 and 91

Done. Post your addresses to me unless they're already on the master list. If I get the messages in time, I can mail today. I try to limit trips to town.

Thank you, urania!!! I have left you a private comment.

Dancer, I just read The Wedding Group---you should enjoy that.

#92 Thank you very much - the address is on the list.

I have an extra copy of Precious Bane if anyone is interested. It's a Penguin trade paperback, not a virago, and has a bit of a water stain on the lower right corner, but it's in good shape apart from that.

aviddiva -- might I please have Precious Bane if no one else has claimed it? I promise to cherish it...

Yes, Jane, you may! Leave me a message with your address and I will send it straight away. It does have an inscription on the title page that I found after I posted, but it's rather a nice one, so I doubt it will bother you.

I had to go shopping yesterday (not for books:-))
but couldn't walk past a lovely bookshop and found these delightful treasures (all original green spines)that want to relocate:-

Hunt the Slipper - Violet Trefusis;
Painted Clay - Capel Boake;
Pilgrimage 1 - Dorothy Richardson;

Please may I have Painted Clay if it isn't spoken for?

aviddiva - certainly you may - I'll get it on its way shortly..

dear Patricia, may I have Hunt the Slipper if no one has asked for it already?

Astrid - it's available - I will post it to you shortly..

Pilgrimage 1, mrspenney? Please?

marise - I will send it on Monday..

Could I claim The Rock Cried Out} please ?

certainly Fleur - I will post it on Monday..

Thank you so much mrspenny - you have brightened a cold, grey Cornish morning !

pleasure, Fleur - it sounds like a perfect morning for those pesky Pirates to be active off the Cornish coast:-))

Patri ALWAYS manages to brighten one's day, doesn't she?
:-))

Fleur, I must say your grey Cornish morning sounds so romantic!

Thank you, mrspenny!!!! You do brighten my day!!!

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, Bleu. Even grey I don't think it could be anything but wonderful. Saint Michael's Mount has a library in it with a fireplace, walls of books and two big wing chairs. I thought that even in the dead of winter with a gale blowing, that room would be heavenly.

I have just rescued Cousin Rosamund from my local church jumble sale and wonder if anyone could give her a good home? (I have a Cousin Rosamund of my own to look after).

Am happy to post worldwide...

Edited to say that it is the green VMC version in reasonably good condition.

It is indeed a fabulous county. We went to Porthleven and toured round including the outdoor theatre Minnack (May have spelt that wrong - please correct me Fleur!)

Heavens, juliette, we were at Portleven in September too...did our paths unknowingly cross?

May I have Cousin Rosamund, please? I promise to give her a lovely new home. Thanks.

Of course, you may, Inge! PM me with your details and I'll post it next week.

Here's the Minack -



Julie, when were you in Cornwall? We may have passed close by without knowing. Do let me know if you ever come back.

Tiffin, I was so sorry to be away when you were in Cornwall, so I do hope you make it back again one day.

Could that look any more perfect? I don't think the quality of the production would bother me too much!

My sister was married in a castle on a cliff top in Cornwall. She has some wonderful black and white photographs of her standing windswept on the cliffs in her wedding dress!

Fleur, I would have made the time for Penzance if you had been there. As it was we were so overwhelmed with how much there was to see and how little time we had to see things. I was so glad we rented a car and stayed in the countryside, about a mile from the sea coast. I wouldn't have missed the little ports, the hedgerow lanes and the pastoral beauty for anything. And I am so glad you said St. Michael's was worth seeing: it truly was.

Soup, not St. Mawe's by any chance?

Duplicate Copies thread being cheerfully taken over with a Cornwall love-in.

Why, oh why didn't I visit Cornwall during my year in England?

(I may have mentioned this before, but as a Buffy fan, I was amused by the notion of visiting a place called St. Anthony Head).

Tiffin, I believe it was St. Mawes. You must know the castle then. Quite a grand name for it, more of a fort really, and doing a grand trade in weddings! Well, it was at the time, anyway. Maybe people don't get married in castles so much during credit crises.

Rob, I'm impressed with how much of England you did see in a year. This is embarrassing to admit but I've lived in England all my life and didn't visit Cornwall until I was 34.

And er, yes, apologies to anyone who's reading this post hoping for duplicates!

Oh Cornwall looks so lovely Jane, how could we have not made it to Cornwall when Rom and I were racing around in our little rented car. (I must start keeping a list of things to do when I go back much like my ever growing book list.)

Maren - you would love Minack - it is an outdoor theatre. Many of the stone seats have the names of famous actors engraved upon them! Fleur - it must be about twelve years ago that we visited Cornwall and loved it.

Soup, the castle at St. Mawes is delightful. Just the right size for one person with a lot of books. Maren, oh do put Cornwall on your life to do list. My next trip to England will have a lot more Kernow in it.

Not to turn the conversation away from beautiful Cornwall, but I picked up some duplicates while shopping this evening! Any takers for these? I'm willing to ship worldwide.

Harriet Hume by Rebecca West (Dial Press VMC edition)
West with the Night by Beryl Markham (Not a VMC edition. North Point Press/Farrar Straus Giroux)
Barren Ground by Ellen Glasgow (Not a VMC edition. 1933 Modern Library hardcover. Green cloth binding.)

Might I please have Harriet Hume? I'll give her a good home.

Certainly, Jane! I won't be able to ship her out until the end of the week--I'll be going to the post office on Friday.

Oh, I would love the Ellen Glasgow...may I?

Of course, LW3! I'll send it your way Friday.

Is West with the Night available for me? Please?

Sure! I'll mail it out to you Friday, Grant.

Thank you so much. I should confess that I had to log on at work to catch this one - naughty me!

Logging on at work is naughty? Oh, brother...I'm going to spend the rest of my life in the Naughty Corner, then.

Me too, Linda!

Me three! I am off today & rest of the week, but I can't get thru a typical workday w/o checking LT !!

*glances quickly over shoulder*

*whispers* Me four!

I'm appalled - how do you all get away with it?

Nobody knows what I do in here...

The same I am doing....

I'm shocked!

HA!

I have a BookCrossing copy of Elaine Dundy's The Old Man And Me to share with anyone who'd like it.

It's a VMC but not a green one.

It does have a BookCrossing spine sticker on the outside, a BCID label on the inside front cover and stamps at the beginnning and end, so not for the purist, and although I don't mind what happens to the book once it's passed out of my hands, I would appreciate if the label could stay in, appreciate more if the recipient could pop onto the BookCrossing site and journal its arrival (no joining necessary) and even more if it was passed along after reading.

Here's what I thought of it:
"I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, given the blurb on the back and Bridget's comments. In its slightly naive and disconnected tone it reminded me a bit of Stevie Smith's work, as well as Dundy's slightly better known "The Dud Avocado" and, in the setting, "The L-Shaped Room". The plot was a bit silly and the drugs references a bit shoe-horned in, but it was a fairly convincing picture of a young girl's descent into chaos, and a fun read."

and a link to the BookCrossing entries including back cover blurb and the last reader's thoughts:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6361439

Happy to post anywhere but it might have to go surface mail if overseas (I'm in the UK)

Hi LyzzyBee

Can I claim The Old Man and Me?

Char

Char - sure - pop me a private note with your address and I'll send it off to you soon

Yay!! Thank you very much!

I have been holding on to these until we were over the Christmas and new year - so I have these duplicates looking for new homes:

The Holiday - Stevie Smith
The Rising Tide - M J Farrell (Molly Keane)
Phoenix Fled - Attia Hosain
Nobody's Business - Penny Gilliatt
At The Still Point - Mary Benson
Silences - Tillie Olsen (Touchstones not working)
Cindie - Jean Devanny
The Odd Woman - Gail Godwin
Regiment of Women - Clemence Dane (Touchstones not working)
Virago Omnibus II

The copies are all original Virago covers;
Nobody's Business is the original cover although it is a later design and The Odd Woman is the modern design.(It is VMC No 479);
The Omnibus Omnibus is a hardcover volume;
A Regiment of Women is not a VMC but is a Virago fiction.

Is anybody interested?

I would love the Tillie Olsen, please and thank you, if no one else wants it.

Tiffin - I will send it off to you shortly..

I would love to have The Odd Woman, if I may. I don't mind that it's not a green cover.

There is a Virago copy of The Fountain Overflows on Paperbackswap - if anyone is a member and wants it. I have a very nice hardback but can't bear to see this copy go to waste.

Thanks romain! I just snagged it.
* high fives romain *

#152 - Cariola - I will send The Odd Woman on her way shortly - she really is very nice and I didn't think she was odd at all!!

I'd love Phoenix Fled dear mrspenny! Thank you very much!

Thank you, MrsP, very much.

Laura, you are FAST!

bleu - on its way shortly..hope you enjoy.

Patricia, I would be interested in A Regiment of Women, if I may. Thanks!!!!

Could I have Cindie, please? Thank you so much!

#159 Paola - it will be on its way to you shortly -

#160 inge87 - please leave your mailing address on my profile page and I will send it off to you..

Might I have At the Still Point?? Thanks so much.

Jane - I will get it off to you soon..

I would be very pleased to provide a home for Nobody's Business, if I may?

You may - I will send it off shortly..

Could I please have The Holiday

Many thanks

Niki

Niki - I will send it off before the end of the week..

I would like The Rising Tide if no-one else got there first.

Thank you

Grant

Grant - just leave your mailing address on my profile page and I will send it off to you..

I went shopping yesterday and found a Penguin Virago edition of The Gentlewomen that is now looking for a good home. Any takers?

inge 87-- ooh -- The Gentlewoman sounds quite wicked -- if no one else will give her a home, I have a soft spot for those not-so-kind ladies. Thanks.

>170 inge87: - It's yours. Just leave your address on my profile and I'll mail it out early next week.

OMG..blood in the water! What a feeding frenzy. Happy reading, everybody!

Five VMCs are looking to be adopted. Will travel to find the right loving home:

"Our Spoons Came From Woolworths" by Barbara Comyns
"The Story of An African Farm" by Olive Schreiner
"The World My Winderness" by Rose Macaulay
"Angel" by Elizabeth Taylor
"Tortoise By Candlelight" by Nina Bawden
"Never No More" by Maura Laverty

The first three are original green VMCs and the other two are green but in the later style. All have wear and tear. The Screiner has one heavy crease to the spine and the last two have more lighter creases and all have general handling wear.

Oh dear Fleur, may I have Miss Rose Macaulay's "World"? Thank you!!

Yes, of course you may!

Please may I have The Story of an African Farm? Thanks in advance!

I have a duplicate copy of Elizabeth and her German Garden up for grabs -- green spine, 1992 UK printing. Covers somewhat creased at the binding, but generally in good shape.

#177 - Gladly aviddiva. Could you leave me a note of your address please. I'm planning a trip to the post office on Monday.

Fleur - I would love Our Spoons Came from Woolworths.

And Liz - Elizabeth and Her German Garden would be wonderful, if it's still available.

You guys are so wonderful. :-)

It's yours Talbin -- leave me a note with your address.

I was hoping someone would adopt Our Spoons Came from Woolworths! Everyone should own a copy! If you haven't yet read it, you're in for a treat, Talbin! :)

Thanks, Liz! Address posted to your profile.

miss_read - I hope Fleur says Yes, because I've been looking for Our Spoons Came from Woolworths for awhile. I've read one other book by Comyns, Who was Changed and Who was Dead, which was quite fascinatingly (is that a word?) strange, affecting and funny.

Talbin, I would be delighted to send you "Our Spoons came From Woolworths".

And miss read is entirely right - I was so set on owning a copy that at one stage I had three - this is the second one I have rehomed!

Talbin - I forgot to say could you leave a private message with your address on my profile please?

Thank you so much, Fleur! I'll post my address on your profile page.

Jane, May I have Tortoise by Candlelight please? Thank you!!!!!!
:-))

Of course you may !!!!!!!

If "Angel" by Elizabeth Taylor is still available I've been trying to find that one for quite a while. Thanks, Grant

:-))

Oh I'm so sorry "Angel" has gone. But it is a book that I see in charity shops from time to time so I will do my best to find another copy for you Grant.

Any takers for the Maura Laverty?

Hi Paola, how are you? Are Jane and Fleur alter egos of the same person? Is she some kind of secret agent?

Any takers for the Maura Laverty?

Yes, please!

Sold !!!

Yes Europhile, I am both Jane and Fleur depending on how the mood strikes me. I don't think I'm a secret agent, but who knows what my alter ego is doing while I'm not watching .....

Damn,

I keep missing all the book giveaways :-) Always a bridesmaid; never the Virago.

Grant! How are you??? Going to the beach? We are expecting a snow storm tomorrow :-(

The beach? It's raining here and not as warm as it has been! A NZ summer indeed.

Sounds like a similar summer to coastal Oz Grant!! but good reading weather...

I have two Viragos in need of a caring home:

Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward (green cover)
and
Seven for a Secret by Mary Webb (black cover, Dial Press)

Who wants to adopt them?

I would love to give Marcella a good home.

Niki

Oh, Paola, I would love to have Seven For a Secret if no one else wants it -- I really like Mary Webb. However, I just requested another duplicate, so if someone else wants to jump in, they should go ahead of me -- i don't want to be greedy!

Dear Niki and Liz,
I shall be more than happy to send them to you!
You will have to be a bit patient, though, as I shall not be able to mail them before next week.
:-))

Hi aluvalibri

There is no hurry at all - I have lots of books to carry on with.

thanks again

Niki

This seems to be my week for Willa Cather --I found a lovely copy of My Antonia last week, and this morning, there was another! I have a signet paperback of My Antonia up for grabs if anyone is interested. It's a mass market paperback in very good condition.

Am I in time to snatch up this one?? :)

Christina, it's yours!

More treasures -- Not Viragos, but possibly of interest based on comments in various threads on this group (or maybe the Persephone group.)

I have:

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin, Washington Square press paperback, mass market size
The Present and the Past by Ivy Compton-Burnett, penguin modern classics edition, cover a bit bent, otherwise good
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden, older (1970) mass market paperback, cover tanned but contents good
With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey, Hardback in good condition

Any takers?

Hmmm...the new "Will You Like it" feature seems to think I will LOVE With Malice Toward Some, so I will speak for it, if it's still available.

>207 aviddiva:, aviddiva please may I put my hand up for ICB?

May I have My Brilliant Career?

Oh aviddiva, I have been wanting to read In This House of Brede if no one has claimed it I would love to have it.

All spoken for! Please leave your addresses on my profile and I will get those out to you.

I think I may have another paperback copy of In This House of Brede, so if anyone else wants that one, leave me a message and I'll keep a wish list for when I locate it! I see copies every so often and will pick them up if they're in decent shape.

oops, missed fabrile-heart's post.

Fleur, The World my Wilderness arrived in today's poste. I immediately read the very interesting intro by Penelope Fitzgerald and I look forward to reading the book after Lark Rise. Thank you ever so much, dear Jane!!

I received two wonderful books from two wonderful Viragoites today. Fleur sent Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, and aviddiva sent Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Both came with very nice cards, too. Thank you so very much, Jane and Liz!

I received a lovely copy of The Odd Woman today. Thank you so much, mrspenny. I hope she's a little odd--that would make her more intriguing!

I have a Steerforth Press edition of New York Mosaic by Isabel Bolton if anyone is interested.

>217 Leseratte2: There's a Part V thread posted; you might have better luck reaching an interested Viragoite over there.

aguntherc, I'm quite interested in New York Mosaic, if you'd like to send it to California? Not overly familiar with Isabel Bolton; however, in reading a review this morning, Gore Vidal calls her writing style from the 'school of Henry James'. I love HJ!