Our Virago Want Lists for 2011 - a fresh start!

Go wild, folks!

I am seeking:

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell,
(non-Virago),

Armour Wherein He Trusted by Mary Webb ,
any Sylvia Townsend Warner with the exception of Selected Stories & Lolly Willowes, (or The Loving Huntsman); have those 2,
Stricken Field by Martha Gellhorn,
Olivia by Dorothy Strachey,
Another Time, Another Place by Jessie Kesson,
Luminous Isle by Eliot Bliss,
When Rainclouds Gather by Bessie Head,
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark,
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule, and
The Daylight and the Dust by Janet Frame.

I would like any book by a Bloomsbury author or any book on the Bloomsbury group or parts of it. But please check my library to see that I do not yet have it.

I am also constantly on the look out for any Traveler that I do not have. (Beacon or otherwise)

I love books; all sorts: new, used, tattered, doesn't really matter if the spine is in okay shape and all the pages are there.

I am not a Virago green purist and would take any copy.

thank you,
belva

I pretty much want anything I don't have yet, but there are a few authors I would particularly like to collect at this time:

last update: 11 November 2011

By Winifred Holtby:
Mandoa, Mandoa!

By E.H. Young
Celia
The Vicar's Daughter

By M.J. Farrell/Molly Keane
Young Entry
Treasure Hunt
The Knight of Cheerful Countenance
Time After Time
Loving and Giving

By Edith Wharton:
Roman Fever
The Fruit of the Tree
Madame de Treymes
Old New York
The Children
The Mother's Recompense
Hudson River Bracketed
The Gods Arrive
The House of Mirth - I have this, but would like it in a VMC edition
Ethan Frome
Glimpses of the Moon
Twilight Sleep
Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

updated 10 November 2011

any of the Virago travel books (I have China to Me but that's it)

by Barbara Comyns
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead *****

by Radclyffe Hall
The Unlit Lamp
A Saturday Life

by Winifred Holtby
The Crowded Street

by Vita Sackville-West
Family History
No Signposts in the Sea

by Elizabeth Taylor
The Devastating Boys
A View of the Harbour*****

by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
Mr. Skeffington
The Pastor's Wife

E.H. Young
Celia
Chatterton Square
The Vicar's Daughter

Anything I don't have, really!

I would love to own anything by Vera Brittain. Also looking for Anderby Wold, The Corner That Held Them, A Pin to See the Peepshow and some Molly Keane/MJ Farrell's I don't own: Treasure Hunt, The Knight of Cheerful Countenance, Good Behaviour, Time After Time, Loving and Giving, and Conversation Piece.

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

Mary, do you want that in a Virago copy or would you like to have my trashy mass market paperback with teeny tiny print? If you want the later, I can mail it off to you tomorrow. It's not in bad shape, I just needed a bigger font for one this big. After all, I am much older, you know.
hugs,
belva

Belva,

I'll take it any way I can get it. I don't mind trashy paperbacks.

Belva,

I'll take it any way I can get it. I don't mind trashy paperbacks.

If you really want it Mary, please P.M. your mailing address to me and I will get it off tomorrow in the post.
belva

I would love any Virago traveller which I do not yet have in my library! Thank you :)

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>12 laytonwoman3rd:: Linda, I have a spare copy of Death Comes for the Archbishop if you would like it. I was planning to offer it on the duplicates thread soon but was hanging on as life is rather hectic at the moment and it might be a week or two before I can post it.

It is one of the bright green rather than olive green spines which came a bit later than the originals but is in very good condition.

Dee, if you're sure you don't mind sending the Archbishop's remains across the pond, I would love to have that copy. Anytime you get around to mailing it would be just fine.

>14 laytonwoman3rd:: No problem at all, Linda- though the image you presented there is a daunting one ;-)

I've just checked and I still have your address. As long as you haven't moved house recently I'll post the book to you when I can!

>14 laytonwoman3rd:: sending the Archbishop's remains across the pond ... is that legal?

These are the one I would like:

Honourable Estate by Brittain
Love in Winter by Jameson
Christina Rossetti by Thomas

By Barbara Comyns
Sisters by the River
Skin Chairs
Touch of Mistletoe

By Mary Hocking
Good Daughters
Indifferent Heroes
Welcome, Strangers

Here's my same list:
#1 any of the following original V/B Travelers: A Lady's Life in the Rockies, The Turkish Embassy Letters
#2 Caravan Island, and A Corn of Wheat by E. H. Young
#'s3-5 Pilgrimage 2, 3, and 4 by Dorothy M. Richardson
#6 Aurora Floyd by M.E. Braddon
#7 Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

---- really anything in Virago green that I don't already own ---

Have you read Pilgrimage 1, Peggy? I still have it waiting to be read and I believe it was you that sent it to me. Yes?

No, I haven't read P1 although it sits on the shelf; and yes, it was one I was able to send you!

Journey to Paradise by Dorothy Richardson
Her Son’s Wife by Dorothy Canfield
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
The House in Clewe Street by Mary Lavin
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
The Summerhouse Trilogy by Alice Thomas Ellis

My new wishlist! Please add or update your own!

Virago Modern Classics:

The True Heart- Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Flint Anchor- Sylvia Townsend Warner
After the Death of Don Juan- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Mr Fortune's Maggot- Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner that Held Them - Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Knight of Cheerful Countenance- Molly Keane
Young Entry- M J Farrall/ Molly Keane
Treasure Hunt- M J Farrell/ Molly Keane
Full House- M J Farrell/ Molly Keane

Also seeking these non-Viragoes:

Letter to Constantine - Joan London (only seems available in Australia)

NYRB edition of The Towers of Trebizond -Rose Macaulay

Penguin modern classic editions of any of Alice Munro's books (think these are only available in Canada)

I'm always Peggy on the Spot for this exercise.

#1 any of the following original V/B Travelers: A Lady's Life in the Rockies, My Journey to Lhasa, Letters from Egypt, Letters from India, The Turkish Embassy Letters (I have other editions of the first three, but I would so like a V/B complete set!)
#2 Caravan Island and A Corn of Wheat by E. H. Young
#3 Pilgrimage 2, 3, and 4 by Dorothy M. Richardson - (I still haven't read my copy of 1, but I am a completer.)
#4 Aurora Floyd by M.E. Braddon

Don't start number one Peg and then you can avoid 2, 3, and 4 for the rest of your life. I'm sure God will forgive you.

I've been on the fence about Pilgrimage Vol. I from the start, but Richardson was a gifted writer and I do plan to read volume two. I think my ambivalence about this work stems from the fact that I can't actively like her heroine, Miriam. Then again, I don't really dislike her, either. Sometimes she's rather a pill, but I can take her in small doses and most of the chapter-novels in Pilgrimage are less than 200 pp.

I am just guessing that you, Barbara, did not favor the Pilgrimage series? I keep debating; to order or not to order. Hmmmmmmmm

Haven't read it Belva. It is, however, notoriously difficult and I know that dear Peggy feels she has to finish what she's started! Remember the truly dreadful Christina Stead she slogged through to the bitter end. I say - read something you'll enjoy more Peg.

I do indeed remember the 'slogging'. Too many wonderful books out there & on our shelves to read 'sloggers'. Better take her advise Peggy.

I want the Nicola Beauman book - non fiction on women writers.

Mary, would that be A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-1939?

yes and that goes for me too

>27 romain: & 28 Actually, in this context I meant that I'm more a complete buyer!!! I just want them on my shelves, really, and I say that I want to read them before I die. And who knows? I might.

>32 LizzieD:: that's how I approach Virago collecting too, Peggy!

>30 rainpebble: Belva,

Yes that one. I was too lazy to look up the title.

So . . . slightly off topic - does paola have all of the original (classic green cover version) VMCs now?

nearly all

Not all, Mary, but most of them.

So Paola, which ones don't you have?

I don't know, Mary, I will have to check. If you look at my catalogue, you will see I have many "black covers" as well, which I hope I will manage to substitute one day (wishful thinking).
So, when I find an original green, even if I already have it in the black edition, I try to get it, provided it does not cost an arm and a leg, of course!
I also do not particularly like the ones with photos from the movies on the cover, for example my copy of The Enchanted April, and I will keep looking for the original version.

Almost anything lol there are Virago's I have read but don't own a copy of - and many many more I neither own nor have read.

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Her Son’s Wife by Dorothy Canfield
A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
The House in Clewe Street by Mary Lavin
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

Honourable Estate by Brittain
Christina Rossetti by Thomas

Good Daughters by Hocking
Indifferent Heroes by Hocking
Welcome Stranger by Hocking

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I added a link to this thread to our group wiki.

My current Virago wishlist:

Lettice Cooper: Fenny received from Virago Secret Santa - thank you!
Pamela Frankau: A wreath for the enemy bought old hardback in Slightly Foxed Bookshop
Mary Norton: The bread and butter stories
Henry Handel Richardson: Maurice Guest
Edith Wharton: Hudson River bracketed and The reef
Storm Jameson: Company Parade
Elizabeth Taylor: A dedicated man and other stories
Emily Hilda Young: The curate's wife
F.M. Mayor: The rector's daughter

My most tippy top wish is Not so quiet : stepdaughters of war by Helen Zenna Smith (any edition)

The others, in no particular order and subject to change without notice :-)
Cotters' England by Christina Stead
Jenny Wren by E.H. Young
Anderby Wold Winifred Holtby
Aleta Dey by Francis Marion Beynon
A Diary without Dates by Enid Bagnold
Two days in Aragon by M. J. Farrell (Molly Keane)
The Brontes went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
Christine, a search for Christine Granville by Madeleine Masson
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
One way of love by Gamel Woolsey

I don't usually post much wishlist, but I am admitting to coveting Virago's edition of Civil to Strangers and am impatiently waiting for Crampton Hodnet whenever it comes out. This may sound shallow, but I love the covers Virago has been producing for these, and have decided to wait to try to find these versions specifically. I haven't found them in the US yet.

It isn't "shallow" at all. It proves you have a collector's heart.

Updated my list at #3 and made sure my Virago catalogue was up to date tonight. It wasn't!

My wish list is basically anything I haven't already got: I have marked all my Viragos with tag "Publisher - Virago" which should help. If I have it in my "read but not owned" category then I probably don't want another copy as I'll have passed it on for a reason (I have to be a reader rather than a collector) but I do try not to pass on books I've had from fellow Viragoites unless I know someone else is desperate for a particular one!

Writing a wish list just in case Santa wants some help!

Clever woman of the family (Yonge)
Rising of the moon (Gladys Mitchell)
Constant Sinner (mae West)
The dark tide (Vera Brittain)
Maurice Guest (Henry Handel Richardson)
Life and death of harriet frean (sinclair)
The sheik (Hull)
Three weeks (Glynn)
Way of an eagle (Dell)
Dedicated man (Elizabeth taylor) (oldest edition)
The rector and the doctors family (Oliphant)

I love Elizabeth Taylor - so any which I don't have, there are one or two which I have read but don't have and would like those just as much as those I've not read.

Tortoise by Candlelight by Nina Bawden
Remember Remember by Winifred Holtby
Jenny Wren by E H Young
William by E H Young
Ceilia by E H Young
The Lost traveller by Antonia White
The Sugar House by Antonia White
Beyond the glass by Antonia White
The world my Wilderness by Rose Macauley
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
The Gypsy's Baby by Rosamond Lehmann
A note in music by Rosamond Lehmann
Our spoons came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

also almost any VMC I don't have : )

A Touch of Mistletoe (Comyns)
As Once in May (White)
Three Weeks (Glyn)
Conversation Piece (Keane)
Loving and Giving (Keane)
The Wind Changes (Manning)
Mandoa! Mandoa! (Holtby)
A Very Great Profession (Beauman)

These are some of the Viragos I'm coveting, plus almost any of the Virago Travelers not in my library.

The Overlanders by Dora Birtles
The Roaring Nineties by Katherine Susannah Pritchard
Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth von Arnim (I don't think this is a Virago, but I include it because of the author)
Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge
The Sheik by E. M. Hull

My updated list:

Virginia by Ellen Glasgow (had to get that touchstone by bracketing the AUTHOR, and selecting from the offerings provided)

The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

The Way Things Are by E. M. Delafield

Yeah, that touchstone didn't REALLY work, did it? *grrr....crab....crank....sputter*

Here's my list:

30th Anniversary Virago Editions (2008):
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Game of Hide and Seek
Valley of the Dolls
84 Charing Cross Road
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Magic Toyshop

VMC Designer Collection Editions (2011):
Good Behaviour
The Dud Avocado
The Tortoise and the Hare
Enchanted April
My Cousin Rachel

Green Spine Viragos:
A Pin to See the Peepshow
Hester Lilly and Other Stories
The Holiday
Wuthering Heights
Aurora Floyd
The Golden Spur

Virago Travelers/Virago Beacon Travelers
Up the Country
All others that I don't have!

Virago Re-Issues (2011) - Winifred Holtby
Anderby Wold
Poor Caroline
South Riding

Vintage Re-Issues (2011) - Stella Gibbons
Westwood
Starlight

Oh, and ANY Bloomsbury Group Reissues! Miss Hargreaves et al.....

Ooh, thanks for the reminder. I completely forgot about the Bloomsburies, and I only have Mrs. Ames.