Sixteenth DUPLICATES THREAD

I thought I'd move us on to another thread as the last one was getting rather long and I'm reposting my current list.

I've gathered together all my Virago duplicates in one place and I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I have so many. I'll happily send anywhere but outside Europe will go Surface. If in UK do choose two as the postage will be the same as for one.

Original Greens:
Lady Oracle (has had water damage but is now almost completely flat again)
O! Pioneers
A Game of Hide and Seek
Precious Bane (rathered battered front cover)
The Judge (two copies! one printed 1980 the other 1987; the older one is in better condition)
The Sugar House

Second Style Greens:
The Weather in the Streets
Blaming
A Sea-Grape Tree

Modern Coloured:
The Constant Nymph (mint)
In a Summer Season
The Enchanted April (mint)
The Fountain Overflows
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont film tie-in cover (mint)
The Land of Green Ginger
The Land of Spices
The Vet's Daughter

O! Pioneers!. I like what I've read by Willa Cather so far and I've been looking for this for ages so if you would be prepared to send it to NZ I'd very much appreciate it.

>1 CDVicarage: Kerry, could I have The Vet's Daughter and The Land of Spices please?

>2 europhile: >3 souloftherose: Yes to both.

Grant, I have your address from three years ago. Is it still the same?

Heather, I need your address

CD, did you send my book yet? Thanks so much! :)

>1 CDVicarage: Kerry, could I please have Lady Oracle? I thought I had it but it turns out I don't! Many thanks! :)

Kerry, I am in the U.S. so I understand if you can't send any to me. I would like Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, if possible. It has been on my wishlist.

>6 kaggsy: >7 NanaCC: Yes to both. Would you like a second book, Karen? I have your address but will need yours, Colleen.

>8 CDVicarage: Thank you Kerry! Could I have one of The Weather in the Streets then please? :)

Thank you very much, Kerry. I have PM'd my address.

>4 CDVicarage: Hi Kerry: Yes my address is still the same. Thank you very much!

All books have gone out over the last week except for the final batch which should be in the post tomorrow. Those going to USA or NZ have gone suface and will take up to six weeks.

>12 CDVicarage: Thank you so much Kerry. If there are any from my list you want (and I really must update it) please do say so!

>12 CDVicarage: Hi Kerry, the books arrived today and thank you so much - as you say, the Lady Oracle has recovered nicely and it's one I don't have so thanks! :)

>1 CDVicarage: CDVicarage: Is The Sugar House still available please?

>15 TheBookTrunk: Yes, Christine, it is. Do choose another title, if there's anything else you'd like, as the postage will be the same as for sending one book and let me know your address.

>16 CDVicarage: CDVicarage: Ooh lovely! Thank you. Could I have In A Summer Season as well please? Do I need to let you have the postage? Now I need to work out how to direct message you my address.

>17 TheBookTrunk: Books went in the post yesterday, second class, so may be with you Wednesday or Thursday.

>18 CDVicarage: CDVicarage: Books arrived yesterday, and I meant to message you then, but I sat down and started reading The Sugar House, and nothing else got done all day because I couldn't put it down. It is wonderful! Thank you so much.

>1 CDVicarage:
Hi Kerry!
I have been absent from LT for awhile and just was reviewing this thread. If Precious Bane and The Land of Green Ginger are still available, I would love them. I am in Canada though so if it the cost is too high I understand.

>20 ccookie: Yes, they are, Cathy and you are welcome to have them. I have your address from about 18 months ago - unless you have moved! I won't promise to get them in the post before Christmas and it will be surface, so I hope you have enough reading to keep you going.

>20 ccookie: Books should be in the post tomorrow, Cathy, going surface so it will be a few weeks until they reach you!

>1 CDVicarage: I've added some more duplicates to my list above.

I have been trying to have a bit of a clear out to make space for more of the incomings (ahem!) and I thought I'd update the dupes list. I *will* send abroad if no-one in the UK wants though this would have to be the cheapest and slowest method. As Kerry says, if UK peeps want to pick two books this will cost the same as one to post. Here goes:

Greens:

Elizabeth Hardwick - The Ghostly Lover
Maureen Duffy - The Microcosm
E M Delafield - The Diary of a Provincial Lady
Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West - Cousin Rosamund (a bit tatty - ex library)
Sybille Bedford - A Favourite of the Gods
Grace Paley - The Little Disturbances of Man
Pat Barker - Blow your House Down
Molly Keane - The Rising Tide
Molly Keane - Full House
Molly Keane - Devoted Ladies

Modern covers:

Kate O'Brien - Without My Cloak
Pat Barker - Union Street
Pat Barker - Liza's England
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Winifred Holtby - The Land of Green Ginger
Barbara Comyns - The Vet's Daughter
Molly Keane - Loving and Giving
Molly Keane - Good Behaviour
Molly Keane - Time after Time
Barbara Pym - Some Tame Gazelle
Barbara Pym - No Fond Return of Love
Barbara Pym - Less Than Angels
Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence
Barbara Pym - A Glass of Blessings
Barbara Pym - Crampton Hodnet

Virago Travellers:

Edith Durham - High Albania

Strange Virago hardback about poetry:

Words that Burn - Josephine Hart

Non Virago Pyms:

Quartet in Autumn
The Sweet Dove Died
Civil to Strangers

Let me know if you're interested!

I've just sent off two of my duplicates so I have space!

Could I have Without my cloak and The Rising Tide, please, Karen?

>24 CDVicarage: I loved The Rising Tide, Kerry. It is my favorite of hers, so far.

>24 CDVicarage: Of course you may, Kerry. I'll assume your address is the same and I'll get these off in the next few days! :)

I'd love High Albania please.

>27 BeyondEdenRock: It's yours Jane. Please do choose another if you'd like one as it costs no more to send in the UK. I'm not sure if I have your address so please send me a message! 😀

>23 kaggsy: I would love Liza's England and Blow your House down if possible, Karen.

>29 Soupdragon: Certainly Dee - is your address the same? 😀

It is! Thank you so much, Karen.

Kerry, Dee and Jane - your books went off today so hopefully will reach you soon! :)

Wonderful, thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks, Karen.

Karen, may I have Good Behaviour, Devoted Ladies, and Loving and Giving?

I live in the US. If this is an issue, don't worry about it.

I will look into the cost Hannah - three books over the pond may be a bit expensive... 😕

>26 kaggsy: Books arrived this morning, Karen, thank you very much. It took me quite a while to get into the very well-wrapped parcel!

>38 CDVicarage: Glad they reached you safely, Kerry - I like to pack my books well as the postal service is not always gentle with them! :)

>36 toast_and_tea: Hannah, I can sent them by snail mail as if I wrap them thinly they'll just be under a weight band. PM me your address!

A big thank you from me too Karen, as my Viragos also arrived today. I've really enjoyed Pat Barker's more recent novels so it'll interesting to read some early ones.

That's great Dee - hope you enjoy them!

>38 CDVicarage: Kerry, I had a nice surprise in last night's post. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont arrived safe and sound. I had forgotten all about it. Thank you very much. It will be a lovely vacation read.

>43 NanaCC:
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is my very favorite of all E. T.'s novels. Every time I read it I feel as if I am right there in the story with Mrs. Palfrey. It is so beautifully written, as are all of the Elizabeth Taylor works. Enjoy.............

>23 kaggsy: The book is here and it looks wonderful. Many thanks!

That's great Jane - hope you enjoy it! 😀

>44 rainpebble: I am really looking forward to it, Belva, and now even more so. :). I've never read anything by Elizabeth Taylor, so I look forward to the treat.

Oh Mrs Palfrey ... Sooooo good.

Also we did a year of Elizabeth Taylor in this group a few years back, reading one novel per month. If you visit the group wiki (available via the main group page) you can find threads devoted to each book.

>36 toast_and_tea: Hannah, the books went off today by surface mail. They could take months to reach you but hopefully will eventually arrive in one piece.... :)

I've just added Elizabeth Hardwick The Ghostly Lover to my list of dupes above as I upgraded my copy today! :)

>50 kaggsy: Hi Karen: I would love to have either or both The Ghostly Lover and The Little Disturbances of Man if nobody in the UK wants them and you don't mind sending them to NZ. I have very much enjoyed the other VMCs I already have by both these authors.

>51 europhile: Hi Grant, yes that's fine - I'll do some weighing and see what I can manage. They will be by snail mail! I think I have your address from way back, but it might be worth sending it by PM again!

Well, Kerry, the books arrived today. Not even two weeks to get here. That must set some kind of record for UK to Canada! Thanks, so much. I love us Viragoites! People here are so kind and generous! Now to add them to my catalogue.

>53 ccookie: That's amazing! Perhaps there is such a lull after Christmas that there is spare capacity on the planes?

>53 ccookie:&>54 CDVicarage: That is amazing. Kerry posted a book to me in August and it arrived last week. :). I guess surface mail is very unpredictable. And I agree, this group is wonderful.

>49 kaggsy: They came today! I was like wow. They're gorgeous, thanks! I'm reading them after I'm finished The Distant Hours. Which should I start with. I've never read any Molly Keane. I've got Devoted Ladies, Loving and Giving, and Good Behaviour.

Wow indeed Hannah! I'm pleased and amazed they reached you so quickly - I think Kerry must be right about the space on the planes at the moment! :)

56: I don't think you need to read Molly Keane in any particular order. You have one of her earlier books and two of her later ones there - Molly Keane stopped writing for nearly 30 years. It's always said that this was after the death of her husband but that was in 1946 and there were two novels published in 1951 (after a 10 year gap) and 1952, and two plays, then a long interval until 1981, when there were another three.

>56 toast_and_tea: Good Behaviour won the Man Booker Prize and is one of my favorite Molly Keanes.

>51 europhile: Grant, the books went off today - I hope they don't take too long to get to you!

>60 kaggsy: Thank you very much, Karen. I really appreciate it.

Not a duplicate but part of my 'two year purge'; I am looking for a U.S. (simply due to shipping costs) home for a couple of Virago. First the wonderful WWII diary: A Woman in Berlin. I loved it and hope someone out there will as well. It is the hardcover Virago edition. Also Ruth Adam's I'm Not Complaining in the green Virago edition. If someone wants both of them, that is fine by me. Less in shipping costs so I can purge more. :-)

Well, Belva, you know me. I'd love to have A Woman in Berlin if nobody else is eager for it. I have a black Dial edition of I'm Not Complaining that I would offer here if you want to save on postage. (Isn't that noble of me???) Thank you if it hasn't been promised!

>63 LizzieD:
If I am reading this correctly, Peggy, I will get both of them off to you after the first. What with moving things back & forth between trailer & home, I have misplaced my address book. Would you please PM your mailing to me? Thank you & thank you!

Kinflicks is also up for auction if anyone feels the desire.

I've been absent for FAR too long - but today picked up a green Virago Traveller of West With the Night by Beryl Markham - happy to send to anybody in the UK who'd like it?

>65 Stuck-in-a-Book: Oooh...that's a good one! Somebody snatch that up, quickly---you won't be sorry.

It looks like nobody in the UK wants it, so I shall open up to the rest of the world!

>67 Stuck-in-a-Book: I live in the rest of the world! Will PM you.

Hello - I have several VMCs that are duplicates for me (I can't pass them up when I run across them!) and would be happy to send them to anyone who would like them.

Sheep's Clothing by Celia Dale (green spine)
2 copies of South Riding by Winifred Holtby (one green cover, one modern VMC cover)
The Rising Tide by Molly Keane (M.J. Farrell) (green cover)
Family History by Vita Sackville-West (green cover)
Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up by Hermione Lee (green spine)

All in good condition. The modern cover South Riding is in excellent condition.

Let me know if you are interested.

I'll send world wide if you don't mind it coming on the slow boat.

Mr. S.P., this is a very generous offer. Everybody knows how quick I am to jump at a VMC that I don't have, and I don't have Sheep's Clothing and would love a copy. If you felt like sending 2, I'd be tickled to have the Willa Cather bio also.
Thank you for your generosity, and I will love to wait for the slow boat if you are willing to do that!

I didn't even know there was a VMC called Sheep's Clothing! I'd be very keen to have a copy of Vita's Family History if you don't mind sending it by slow boat to NZ. Thank you very much for the offer.

Hi Lizzie - Happy to send them both! Let me know your address and I will get them in the mail tomorrow.

Hi Europhile - NZ is no problem! Let me know your address and Family History will go out tomorrow.

I would be up for receiving one of the copies of South Riding, perhaps the green. But I am in Canada so if that is too much for you I understand.

If anyone in the UK would like my copy of The vicar's daughter I will be happy to post it to you. I'm having to be ruthless about not keeping books I shan't reread due to lack of space. The spine is creased and sloped but the binding is still strong.

All the unclaimed books in my list at the top have now gone to a charity shop - we're about to move house and I had to reduce the number of books going with me! - but I have another just bought on holiday last week:

A Pin to see the Peepshow in original green.

>76 CDVicarage: if you're OK with sending to the US, I'd love it!

Certainly, Lisa. It will go by surface mail so it could be six weeks or so. PM me your address and I will try to get it in the post before we move!

Sorting out my tbr bookcase today I discovered I had two copies of

Afternoon of a good woman both of them those brand new green VMC print on demand editions - so I must have bought the same book twice.

I also have a second edition of Family Money also by Nina Bawden - it is green spine but not an original green. I always seem to forget which Nina Bawden books I have and so end up buyng the same ones twice - the same has happened with Molly Keane in the past.

If anyone would like it - please let me know.

Hi Ali: I've been struggling for some time to find anything at all by Nina Bawden, let alone a VMC. I noted several years ago that a lot of her books had been published as VMCs so I sought them out particularly but I've only found two so far, one a VMC, one not. I have neither of the above so would be delighted if you could send me either or both. If postage to NZ is too much, however, I quite understand.

>80 europhile: You may have both - heavens knows when I will get them posted though. I have a busy week - and am away from home all next week, but happy to post both to you. PM me your address. :)

After several days of earthquakes, accompanied by floods and gales, it's nice to be able to relax here in the sun listening to the radio. I had a delightful surprise in my letterbox this morning, two lovely green VMCs courtesy of Ali: Family Money and Afternoon of a Good Woman, both by Nina Bawden. Thank you very much indeed!

>82 europhile: No problem at all. Glad you are ok and can enjoy some sun and relaxation. Hope you enjoy the books - I haven’t read either of them yet myself.

Having amassed a few books recently I have been having a prune, and so I have the following waiting to go to the charity shop if no-one claims them! I would prefer to send in the UK as they're pretty chunky, but if you desperately want one from abroad, let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Diary of a Provincial Lady - original green with an are of lift on the front cover.
The Microcosm - Maureen Duffy - later green
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West - later green
Such Devoted Sisters - anthology
Close Company - stories of mothers and daughters
Wave Me Goodbye
The Virago Book of Love Letters
The Virago Book of Twins

Oh, I'd love the Virago Book of Twins to give to my best friend, who has them! No rush, though, obvs!

No probs Liz - I'll get it out to you soon!

And BTW if you want another title say so, as it will cost no more to send in the UK!

This isn't exactly a duplicate, but I have a full set of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage novels to give away. I'm doing the giveaway in the form of a competition on my book blog and it would make it more transparent if you could add a comment to the blog saying that you'd like it so I can do a random pick from the list (unless only one person wants it, of course)

https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/book-review-march-moonlight-virag...

Hope it's OK to do it like that, I just wanted to widen things out to the general Virago reader community!

>88 LyzzyBee: Ooh, I'm onto your blog!

Not a duplicate but a VMC I don't think I will want to reread - I have a copy of Vita Sackville West's The Edwardians - it's the green cover below and gently used condition.

Having a bit of a clear out and I have two Nina Bawdens that I really don't think I'd read so I'm happy to offer them here:

The Ice House - later green in decent condition but with a bit of spine creasing
A Woman of My Age - again a different later style green, I think in decent condition but with spine wear

Let me know if anyone would like them!

Hi Karen: I would like them both if at all possible (but I don't want to be greedy!). I've been trying to increase my stock of Nina Bawden's books with a view to having a reading binge at some point (possibly as part of a group read) but I've not been doing too well so far, apart from those Ali sent me a few months ago (and one of those was immediately swiped by my partner to read herself!). Surface mail is fine but if postage costs to NZ are prohibitive please feel free to offer them to someone closer.

Hi Grant, No probs - happy to send you these two, though it will be by snail mail surface! I will get these off as soon as I can - I've been a little distracted lately as 95 yr old mother in law sadly passed away last week so real life has become a little busy... :(

Hi Grant, the books went off today by surface mail so hopefully they will reach you before too long! :)

>93 kaggsy:
Karen, I am so sorry for the loss your family has suffered. Praying for you all.

>95 rainpebble: Thank you Belva. This was not entirely unexpected but still seemed to happen quite quickly and suddenly. But she did not linger or suffer at all, and she had had a long, happy and fulfilled life so to make it to 95 with all that behind you is quite an achievement.

Karen, sorry for your family's loss. However expected, it's difficult to prepare for that sense of loss.

Thank you Luci. You're right - these things still come as a shock however much we expect them.

Would anyone like a good hardback copy of The Sisters The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary Lovell. Sorry it has to stay stateside since it weighs a ton!

Elaine

I already own it Elaine and would highly recommend it to anyone who doesn't.

Having another little prune of the shelves and these Viragos are looking for a good home:

Now in November by Josephine Johnson (modern cover)
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West (modern cover)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (modern cover)
New York Mosaic by Isabel Bolton (modern but with green spine)
The Orlando Trilogy by Isobel Coolegate (newer green - a little worn)
Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott (original green)
A Woman by Sibilla Alkeramo (a black cover?)

I'd prefer to keep them in Europe as postage costs are so hideous nowadays - give me a shout if you'd like any.

>101 kaggsy: I would love New York Mosaic and The Orlando trilogy if no-one else has claimed them. And I've never heard of The Woman - if it doesn't put the postage up then I'd like that too, unless anyone else would like it. I don't want to be greedy (and goodness knows, I've plenty of unread books already!)

>102 Sakerfalcon: Very, very happy to send all three to you Claire. I imagine the postage will all be under the 2kg small parcel rate in the UK so it will make no difference to add the third book! I probably have your address somewhere, but if you want to PM it to me just in case I will get these sent off at the end of the week! :)

I have five really lovely University of Chicago Laurence books. Since I replaced them with ebooks I would like to offer them to one person to save postage. They are heavier than the VMC editions, so I have to keep them stateside.

The Diviners
A Bird in the House
A Jest of God
The Fire-Dwellers
Stone Angel

Let me know if you are interested in all four and I'll mail them to you next week so you have time for read them for the June group read.

Elaine

*Bump*

Just been having a bit of a clear out on a sunny Bank Holiday (as you do) as the books are becoming unmanageable, and there are a few Viragos lurking which will go off to the charity shop - however, I thought I would offer them here in case anyone is interested. You will see there is a lot of Christina Stead.....

I will have to say UK only owing to postage costs for the rest of the world - sorry, overseas pals. I wish there was a more economical option to ship abroad.

Christina Stead:

The Beauties and the Furies
A Little Tea, A Little Chat
The Salzburg Tales
The Puzzleheaded Girl
Miss Herbert

Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield (this is the VMC30 hardback but it's a bit worn)
By Faith and Daring by Glenys Kinnock

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (NOT a Virago edition but a Virago book and author)

Let me know if any of these interest - and as it often costs the same to send more than one book, don't be shy about asking.... ;)

*Bump* again!

I have been taking a long hard look at my Viragos as the need to downsize the house is getting closer and closer. So I have had to be realistic about which books I will read/re-read and have come to the conclusion that these titles will have to go.

These are all greens:

The Orchid House - Phyllis Shand Allfrey
The Lying Days - Nadine Gordimer
A Particular Place - Mary Hocking
The Wind Changes - Olivia Manning
Fenny - Lettice Cooper
The New House - Lettice Cooper
Ann Veronica - H.G. Wells

Plus in modern covers there are:

The Dud Avocado/The Old Man and Me - Elaine Dundy

I also have a copy of Louisa Treger's The Lodger (her book about Dorothy Richardson) which is also looking for a new home.

If anyone wants any of these before they go off to the charity shop please do shout. It will have to be UK only, as the postage costs for overseas have shot up again. And if you're in the UK and would like more than one please say so, as it will probably cost the same to send a couple! :D

Ooh I can't resist a duplicates post! Thank you for thinking of us, Karen.

Could I please have Joanna Godden and Ann Veronica?

>106 kaggsy: Thanks from me too, Karen! Could I please have The lodger, and if the postage will cover both, The wind changes?

>107 Soupdragon: I think Joanna Godden went to the charity shop a while ago as my first list was from 2018. However Ann Veronica is your Dee, and if you want anything else from my post from today, please say so! :) If you address is the same as for VSS I have it I think.

>108 Sakerfalcon: Both of these will be fine, Claire - I'll get them off to you! I still have your address if it hasn't changed!

I would much rather these books went to someone on here than the charity shop! :D

>109 kaggsy: Whoops, for some reason I'd thought they were both new posts! I'd love a copy of Ann Veronica though. My address is still the same. Thank you, Karen :-)

>110 Soupdragon: No probs Dee - I'll send it off! :D

>109 kaggsy: My address is still the same. Thank you so much, Karen!

>110 Soupdragon: >112 Sakerfalcon: Books have gone off today! :D

I would love The New House and The Lying Days.

Need to go through mine as I'm sure I have some duplicates I can post here.

>114 Cornishgirl: No probs! DM me your address and I’ll pop them in the post! 😁

I am looking for a classic (original or second style) green VMC of Elizabeth and her German Garden by von Arnim. Any hints or leads greatly appreciated.

I have a full set of the modern Virago reprints of Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire novels (except The Demon in the House which they didn't reprint). They are read but very carefully, all have my name and the date inside the front cover, no other damage or annotations. I think I will have to limit it to the UK, sorry (maybe Europe too at a pinch). Would somebody like them? I've enjoyed them all but I don't think I'll need to re-read them now I've done them all.

Now that British Library Women Writers (under my auspices :D) have reprinted A Pin To See The Peepshow by F Tennyson Jesse, would anybody like my VMC copy? Probably won't send til January, but let me know!

I'm assuming nobody wanted the above, but a nudge before it goes to a charity shop!