What a fantastic collection of books you got for £2. I've always loved collecting secondhand books and I was lucky enough to buy a bookshop with my husband three years ago. We sell new and secondhand books but the trouble is my own collection is now getting even bigger because I keep seeing books I want when people bring in the books they no longer wish to keep or, sadly, collections from a deceased relative.
How fabulous to have your own bookshop; it sounds delightful! I am sure that would be my problem if I ever had a bookshop - most of the stock would end up on my shelves!! When I worked in Persephone books, I spent a large part of my pay on the books 😂 xxx
I love buying from World of Books as they are high on the most ethically sound list. But I seem to find a book to buy wherever I go😊 Today it was a vintage copy of a Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym. I really enjoy your vlogs, thank you.
I'm so happy to have found your channel. I adore vintage everything and you have found some treasures there. I like hardcovers so had a look for the hardcover of Period Piece. I found one online for the bargain price of $1,138 Australian dollars! I think I may have to stick with the paperback! There are cheaper ones than that, of course, but postage is always the problem to Australia. I collect those childrens' Puffins as well - they are so special.
@@andraste6746 I have ordered one from eBay, from a place I have had hit and miss experiences with in the past but it was the only one I could afford. Fingers crossed!
Thank you so much! Yikes, what a price! You may want to check out the Slightly Foxed edition of Period Piece if you like hardbacks. They publish beautiful clothbound editions: foxedquarterly.com/shop/gwen-raverat-period-piece-plain-foxed-edition/ xxx
Your post made me nostalgic for all the books I read as a child. I forgot about "The Borrowers" books. I remember getting them at my elementary school library (which was my favorite place at school) and being enchanted by them. A country fair in the English countryside sounds idyllic to this New Yorker!
It was the first proper English village fair I'd been to (having only lived in London before), and I loved it!! I just adored The Borrowers books when I was little and want to reread them now! xxx
Lovely video as always Miranda - I'm still in awe of your GBP2.00 haul! Treasures! 😂 I do like a secondhand book rummage, though I rarely have a chance to engage in book hunts as opportunities to buy secondhard books in Hong Kong are limited...and the prices are often not exactly a 'bargain'! 😂 I will also occasionally buy vintage books. My most recent purchases include a copy of The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard and The Correspondence of Andre Gide and Edmund Gosse edited by Brugmans, both from the 1950s. Earlier in the year, I also splurged on a six-volume collection of 1950s pocket editions of EM Forster works - but that's the type of purchase that only happens once in a very rare while! 😅😅 Look forward to seeing more of your secondhand and vintage buys if you decide to share more in the future. 😊😊
I love vintage books I just picked up How to get on in the world published in 1895. Am so delighted to have found someone who shares my taste in books. Have gotten many of your suggestions and enjoyed them all thoroughly.
I buy many vintage books. I especially love rereads from my childhood and books set in or written about the early 1900s. Loved your newest purchases !!
Miranda - thanks so much for showing all these vintage Puffin books - these make me feel so nostalgic for texts that are now out of print, as well as for the classic tv show "Jackanory". It makes me realise how spoiled my generation was, in terms of having resources around that really encouraged us to love books.
I’m saving the China Court video for when I finish it (I had a bit too much on my plate), looking forward 🤗 to that video and this one, vintage books is my jam 📚💛📚
So many wonderful books 💛. I particularly loved the Puffin book covers. Made me feel very nostalgic - I have fond memories of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe being read to us at school!
Such charming finds! I love playing detective in brick-and-mortar, second-hand bookshops. I must admit I do it a lot less often now that Abebooks is at my fingertips. Autumn seems like the perfect season to curl up with nostalgia, a childhood book and a cup of tea. Or cider. The Puffin books are sweet. My stack of recent Abe purchases is right by my feet. Uttley's The Country Child is on top, and I'm just now realizing that it is a Puffin edition. Happy coincidence! I love the front-to-back artwork. I can see why the Puffins appeal to collectors. This was great fun, thank you.
Thank you so much, Pamela! ABE certainly makes book-hunting a lot easier, but I do love it when you happen to stumble across bookish treasures in person too. Your 'Country Child' edition sounds beautiful; there's a definite charm to old Puffin books xxx
I love browsing used and vintage books. I don’t always find what I want, but it’s the thrill of the hunt that keeps going to charity shops, or half price book shops. I’m on the hunt right now for the vintage Peter Rabbit set. 💙
Miranda, I loved this video showing your secondhand books haul. I am a huge fan of secondhand and vintage books. I love browsing through thrift shops and garage/yard sales looking for book treasures. Thank you for sharing your purchases, and I have added many of the titles to my "look for" list. Have a great day!
Rather jealous of your fantastic haul of Puffin books at the village fair 💚 Like you, I loved Mistress Masham’s Repose when I was a child, and recently found the Puffin edition in a charity shop. Looking forward to re-reading it. Have a great week!
I think the English perfected those lovely vintage childhood books. I wish I lived there so I could find them in a local charity shop. I live in a very expensive part of the US for second hand books, they consider $7 a standard price for books - even if they are falling apart). £2 what a steal! Thank you for sharing. Such lovely books, thank for sharing.
Your videos and book recommendations are soo good . I really love watching your videos . Keep making more book recommendation's video. All the love to you as always.
You found some great charity shop books. Frederica & Lady of Quality are among my favourite Georgette Heyer books. The charity shops in my town mostly have modern paperbacks & I seldom find anything I want to read. Fortunately there is also a very good proper second-hand bookshop where I love to browse & buy.
What a wonderful haul, wow! I just read They Loved To Laugh for the first time in August. I had never heard of it before. It was charming! I love finding secondhand books. I recently got a U.S. first edition of Katherine Wentworth by DE Stevenson with a beautiful dust wrapper.
I tracked down Castaway Christmas a while ago but so far no luck with Cut off from Crumpets or Sand in our Shoes. I keep looking! I amm lucky to have all the Georgette Heyer's in various editions. At one time I had all Gerald Durrell's books but some seem to have gone missing. You certainly got a wonderful haul of secondhand books!
This was also a very enjoyable video, thank you, Miranda. I've loved second-hand books since I was young and I still buy second-hand and do collect vintage editions. What mesmerizes me about picking up vintage or second-hand books is the treasures I come across in the little notes or letters that come with those books.
I managed to find a lovely copy of Winifred Norling’s The Making of Mara. After reading it again I was pleased to see I still loved it. Now I have 3 Winifred Norling books
Could you please do a video on some of the best places to buy books in Yorkshire? Both vintage and new. Also I am horrifically jealous of your copy of Starlight Barking!! I had 101 Dalmations in the original pink cover and it vanished. I had no idea that the sequel had come out in a matching cover 😳
I was visiting friends in Abbeyleix a few years ago and they took me to a kind of village fête where I picked up a Virago Modern Classics collection of 10 books in a slipcase; the stall-holder asked me if €2 was too much to charge for the lot! I made her take €5!! Absolute bargain!
I just ordered Period Piece today and should have it in a couple of weeks. And I downloaded A Fugue in Time and have started reading it while I wait for the September selection. You and Donna found some lovely vintage books. I hope you have a lovely rest of the week and weekend💕
One fairly recent second hand book I’m really enjoying right now is the adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse with a lovely illustration on the (Dutch) cover by Fiep Westendorp
So much fun to watch. I love going to thrift shops for books. I read "They loved to laugh" years and years ago. Wow. Forgot about that one. I can't remember why I loved it but I did. I must admit most of my favorite books then and now are by British authors. So I tend to drool a bit(ok a lot) every time I watch your videos. Not a pretty picture but I can't help it. 😂 Your videos make me happy, my husband not so much because I am getting a lot of book mail lately. Lol. My best wishes to you and your mom. 💐📚💕
I can't remember why I loved it but know I did too, Diane, so I'm curious to read it again and see what its appeal was and if it still holds up!! Haha thank you for your lovely words - so glad these videos make you happy! xxx
Thank you so much for sharing all of the vintage books that you bought! I loved watching this video, Miranda. Vintage and old books are my absolute favorites. Even though I admire gorgeous new editions of books, I still adore the old copies more. My bookcases are mostly filled with vintage books, especially by Agatha Christie, Pearl S. Buck, Elizabeth Goudge, etc. You really inspired me to find a few more editions - Carbonel sounds wonderful! Hoping I can read that book in October. Keep sharing your vintage book buys, please :D Many hugs! xoxo
Hi Miranda! I miss so much going to a bookshop and find such treasures as you found. I live in Germany but I don´t like reading in German (my mothertongue is spanish) so I have to buy them on the internet. Have a nice week! Cheers!
I've had seriously amazing luck finding Persephone editions in Oxfam bookshops recently, some real classics like Dorothy Whipple and Delafield - so chuffed! I definitely notice that I'm picking up names here and there from your videos so it has made 2nd hand shopping so joyful!
Yesss!!!!! I’ve never been the first comment before that’s exciting… I didn’t read “China Court” and felt extremely left out, but I watched the video and was childishly annoyed at everyone who did.🥰… not annoyed in a mean way just more annoyed with myself... I’m still happy about “Period Piece” and can’t wait to until I get that beautiful edition..
Thank you, Kiki!! Haha I'm sure the Period Piece discussion will be a lot of fun, so I'm really pleased you'll hopefully be able to join in with that one 😊 I know your book was shipped last week so I hope it doesn't take too long to get to you! xxx
@@MirandaMills yes!!!!!! Like Diana told Anne in “Anne of Green Gables “I’ll be haunting the post-office Wednesday” but In my case watching the mailman very closely..🥰
“How To be Topp” and “Dear Teddy Robinson” are happy covers, I love Maurice Sendak’s artwork too especially the Character “Little Bear” side note this is my comment about this video, the first was because there was hundreds on the previous video😊🥰 That was an awesome second hand book haul.. Thank you Miranda
What a great haul. I have been downsizing my books but when I took some into a local charity shop last week I spotted a vintage penguin copy of Brighton Rock so had to take it home with me. I am currently reading The Weather in the Streets and read Period Piece earlier this year so look forward to your book club discussion.
Oh wow Miranda, great vintage haul. I recently had similar good luck at a used bookstore, I found a huge stack of DE Stevenson, Miss Read, Georgette Heyer, Rosamunde Pilcher hardbacks. It was glorious!
Aww I love this. Your collection has brought back so many childhood memories for me especially the ladybird books. I love getting second hand books especially children’s books, our (me and my 4 year old son)favourites so far is a vintage children’s poem collection by A.A Milne (we read this every day) and Postman Pat by John Arthur Cunliffe. The illustrations in these books are amazing. I also collect a lot of vintage Roald Dahl’s adult books and recently found some great Agatha Christie collections as well. Amazing what a great book finds there are out there. Thanks for sharing and enjoy reading them!
Lovely video as always! :) I wasn't able to get to China Court in August but have ordered Period Piece all ready for the next discussion so will be looking forward to that. Lots of these book recommendations look amazing. I might have just ordered Henrietta's House so bang goes my plan to budget better!
Hi Miranda Loved all those lovely old timers! I love that these old titles are making a comeback! I found a gorgeous little copy of H.E. Bates. The Feast Of July. I haven’t seen this before it has a gorgeous old dust jacket. It’s published by The Book Club Not dated! My $A 8.00 find. Do you have this & have you read it?? ❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺
Lovely to see your wonderful haul of old books - I love buying them so much myself, and it is almost as good to watch other people enjoying their own finds! I love Georgette Heyer and hadn’t seen the new covers - and gosh, they are so generic. I am definitely keeping all my old ones! One book I was wondering if you’d read is another ‘little people’ story, The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui, which I loved.
Great haul! I love buying second hand books! I recently bought an Elizabeth Gaskell that I haven't read before for 25 cents! I love the Georgette Heyer books you found. I love the painted covers the best too!
Thank you for another interesting vlog Miranda. I do look forward to these. There's a short story by Margaret J Baker called 'We didn't mean to fly' about three children who realise one morning that they can fly, and about 24 hours later realise that they no longer have this power. There's no particular drama about the acquisition and then loss of this wonderful ability, but they do have a bit of an adventure while they still have the gift, which they wouldn't have had without it. It's a delightful story, one of five in a book called The Young Magicians, the (in my opinion) gorgeous cover of which depicts one of the children flying. Am planning to read more by MJB.
Thank you so much Miranda, this was wonderful. I love Carbonnel so much and love your vintage copy. I find Abebooks a bit hit and miss but I managed to get an immaculate copy of Geordie by David Walker which is one of my favourite Scottish books. It's about a small, weedy boy in the Highlands who does a correspondence course in body building and ends up competing in the 1956 Olympics in Boston as a big strapping hammer thrower. The dust jacket has lovely illustrations by Shirley Hughes. Do you know it?
Oh this was really wonderful. What an amazing trove of books from the village fete. That particular edition of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe was the exact one I had as a little girl. Book covers are so important, especially to children I think. I remember poring over the covers of all my books and searching out all the little details. If you like Gerald Durrel's writing you might like his "The Donkey Rustlers" which I absolutely lived as a child and nought recently as a vintage copy. I greatly enjiy vintage books (as long as they are clean! And not musty smelling), I recently found a wonderful 2003 Folio edition of The Once and Future King trilogy by TH White; The Sword in The Stone being one of my all time favourite books. It has wonderful illustrations by John Lawrence and I am so thrilled to have it. Thank you for such an enjoyable bookish video Miranda. X
Loved this video! I adore vintage books, they have such charm! All your finds were lovely but I especially love the puffin paperbacks - those beautiful covers! Teddy Robinson is such a favourite of mine and brings me many happy memories of reading him to my daughter too when she was younger.
Hello Miranda, well I love browsing second hand books and this video was a delight. My favourite finds are old gardening or cookery books and Girl's Own Annuals, oh and nature books and home making....... you will know how that goes on! This month I found a copy of Odham's Home Cookery Illustrated and I see that for tea on a Wednesday in the first week of Autumn they suggest brown bread and jam, swiss roll and ginger biscuits. Priceless! Thank you so much for this fun video, Teresa 🍂🤎🧡💛☕️📚🍂
Oh my goodness! You are so knowledgeable and lovely to listen to! I am addicted to old books, thus secondhand booksellers are my favorite places to seek out wherever I find myself, so it seems we belong to the same tribe! Thank you for sharing what sounds like a perfect day and all the wonderful treasures you and your Mum discovered. So nice to have found you, I’ve subscribed and will gladly do some catching up in order to participate in your bookclub! :)
What great finds, you remind me that I must step over my lingering Covid fears to better second hand bookshops further afield. I am a new subscriber and supporter, so enjoying working through your archive, and following up on your terrific reading ideas, including subscribing to The Scribbler. I wanted to highlight that the British Library classics are on 3 for 2 offer at the BL shop. I look forward to the next Comfort Bookclub.
I have the same edition of the Oscar Wilde stories and like you, The Selfish Giant was my favourite of the collection and always made me cry ... I received The Magician’s Nephew by CS Lewis in the same vintage edition as a prize for high marks in elocution when I was about 8 or 9!! What a great haul you got at the village fair!
Unseen childhoods sounds fascinating. Heidi and Pollyanna have disability in them too and came to mind . One of the Pollyanna sequels actually addresses very well a friend of Pollyanna’s who needs assistance walking and how he wishes to be independent and not pitied. The Selfish Giant is such a beautiful story.
I was just reading about The Winter Princess in Grayladies Scribbler vol. 15 and thought it looked like a sweet story. Also that little witch book looks adorable! Books about witches are my addiction.
I recently bought a 1881 copy of Five Little Peppers And How They Grew by Margaret Sidney on EBay. I love collecting antique books.
This was my absolute favourite book as a child! I have held onto it...
It's my mother's favorite childhood book as well. She still has her copy.
What a fantastic collection of books you got for £2. I've always loved collecting secondhand books and I was lucky enough to buy a bookshop with my husband three years ago. We sell new and secondhand books but the trouble is my own collection is now getting even bigger because I keep seeing books I want when people bring in the books they no longer wish to keep or, sadly, collections from a deceased relative.
How fabulous to have your own bookshop; it sounds delightful! I am sure that would be my problem if I ever had a bookshop - most of the stock would end up on my shelves!! When I worked in Persephone books, I spent a large part of my pay on the books 😂 xxx
I love buying from World of Books as they are high on the most ethically sound list. But I seem to find a book to buy wherever I go😊
Today it was a vintage copy of a Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym.
I really enjoy your vlogs, thank you.
I'm so happy to have found your channel. I adore vintage everything and you have found some treasures there. I like hardcovers so had a look for the hardcover of Period Piece. I found one online for the bargain price of $1,138 Australian dollars! I think I may have to stick with the paperback! There are cheaper ones than that, of course, but postage is always the problem to Australia. I collect those childrens' Puffins as well - they are so special.
As an fellow Australian I feel your pain!
@@andraste6746 I have ordered one from eBay, from a place I have had hit and miss experiences with in the past but it was the only one I could afford. Fingers crossed!
Thank you so much! Yikes, what a price! You may want to check out the Slightly Foxed edition of Period Piece if you like hardbacks. They publish beautiful clothbound editions: foxedquarterly.com/shop/gwen-raverat-period-piece-plain-foxed-edition/ xxx
Your post made me nostalgic for all the books I read as a child. I forgot about "The Borrowers" books. I remember getting them at my elementary school library (which was my favorite place at school) and being enchanted by them. A country fair in the English countryside sounds idyllic to this New Yorker!
It was the first proper English village fair I'd been to (having only lived in London before), and I loved it!! I just adored The Borrowers books when I was little and want to reread them now! xxx
Lovely video as always Miranda - I'm still in awe of your GBP2.00 haul! Treasures! 😂
I do like a secondhand book rummage, though I rarely have a chance to engage in book hunts as opportunities to buy secondhard books in Hong Kong are limited...and the prices are often not exactly a 'bargain'! 😂
I will also occasionally buy vintage books. My most recent purchases include a copy of The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard and The Correspondence of Andre Gide and Edmund Gosse edited by Brugmans, both from the 1950s. Earlier in the year, I also splurged on a six-volume collection of 1950s pocket editions of EM Forster works - but that's the type of purchase that only happens once in a very rare while! 😅😅
Look forward to seeing more of your secondhand and vintage buys if you decide to share more in the future. 😊😊
I love vintage books I just picked up How to get on in the world published in 1895. Am so delighted to have found someone who shares my taste in books. Have gotten many of your suggestions and enjoyed them all thoroughly.
I'm so happy to hear that - thank you very much! ❤️ 📚
I buy many vintage books. I especially love rereads from my childhood and books set in or written about the early 1900s. Loved your newest purchases !!
Thank you Shanne! I love rereads from my childhood too, as this video makes clear I'm sure 😂
Love your book suggestions but have to remark on your necklace - an interesting and lovely piece!
Thank you very much! An old Swarovski necklace (their jewellery is always a favourite of mine) xxx
I always love looking for kids books and classics for my little ones at garage sales and thrift stores.
Miranda - thanks so much for showing all these vintage Puffin books - these make me feel so nostalgic for texts that are now out of print, as well as for the classic tv show "Jackanory". It makes me realise how spoiled my generation was, in terms of having resources around that really encouraged us to love books.
I’m saving the China Court video for when I finish it (I had a bit too much on my plate), looking forward 🤗 to that video and this one, vintage books is my jam 📚💛📚
It was a great discussion.
I loved ‘another little Christmas murder’ 😊 🎄
Oh super! I'm looking forward to getting to it in December 😊
So many wonderful books 💛. I particularly loved the Puffin book covers. Made me feel very nostalgic - I have fond memories of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe being read to us at school!
I adore Teddy Robinson too and have that very edition from my childhood. it was a real favourite.
Such charming finds! I love playing detective in brick-and-mortar, second-hand bookshops. I must admit I do it a lot less often now that Abebooks is at my fingertips. Autumn seems like the perfect season to curl up with nostalgia, a childhood book and a cup of tea. Or cider. The Puffin books are sweet. My stack of recent Abe purchases is right by my feet. Uttley's The Country Child is on top, and I'm just now realizing that it is a Puffin edition. Happy coincidence! I love the front-to-back artwork. I can see why the Puffins appeal to collectors. This was great fun, thank you.
Thank you so much, Pamela! ABE certainly makes book-hunting a lot easier, but I do love it when you happen to stumble across bookish treasures in person too. Your 'Country Child' edition sounds beautiful; there's a definite charm to old Puffin books xxx
I love browsing used and vintage books. I don’t always find what I want, but it’s the thrill of the hunt that keeps going to charity shops, or half price book shops. I’m on the hunt right now for the vintage Peter Rabbit set. 💙
I know just what you mean about the thrill of the hunt - that's definitely a large part of the fun! xxx
Miranda, I loved this video showing your secondhand books haul. I am a huge fan of secondhand and vintage books. I love browsing through thrift shops and garage/yard sales looking for book treasures. Thank you for sharing your purchases, and I have added many of the titles to my "look for" list. Have a great day!
I enjoyed China Court and it was interesting to hear you and your Mother talking about the book
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! xxx
Love to reread. Now, I love to relisten over and over to your book club discussions. Everyone has such great insights!!!
You are so good at talking in front of the camera. I aspire to be like that. I loved seeing the books you picked up!
Wow what a fabulous haul, I’m green with envy 😆!!
Rather jealous of your fantastic haul of Puffin books at the village fair 💚 Like you, I loved Mistress Masham’s Repose when I was a child, and recently found the Puffin edition in a charity shop. Looking forward to re-reading it. Have a great week!
I think the English perfected those lovely vintage childhood books. I wish I lived there so I could find them in a local charity shop. I live in a very expensive part of the US for second hand books, they consider $7 a standard price for books - even if they are falling apart). £2 what a steal! Thank you for sharing. Such lovely books, thank for sharing.
Secondhand books were generally more expensive in London, even in charity shops, so I know just what you mean! We were lucky to find such bargains xxx
Your videos and book recommendations are soo good . I really love watching your videos . Keep making more book recommendation's video. All the love to you as always.
Thank you so much! ❤️
You found some great charity shop books. Frederica & Lady of Quality are among my favourite Georgette Heyer books. The charity shops in my town mostly have
modern paperbacks & I seldom find anything I want to read. Fortunately there is also a very good proper second-hand bookshop where I love to browse & buy.
Yes, I was thrilled with the Heyer books! You are lucky to have a good secondhand bookshop near you; I love browsing in secondhand shops! xxx
What a wonderful haul, wow! I just read They Loved To Laugh for the first time in August. I had never heard of it before. It was charming! I love finding secondhand books. I recently got a U.S. first edition of Katherine Wentworth by DE Stevenson with a beautiful dust wrapper.
I tracked down Castaway Christmas a while ago but so far no luck with Cut off from Crumpets or Sand in our Shoes. I keep looking! I amm lucky to have all the Georgette Heyer's in various editions. At one time I had all Gerald Durrell's books but some seem to have gone missing. You certainly got a wonderful haul of secondhand books!
This was also a very enjoyable video, thank you, Miranda. I've loved second-hand books since I was young and I still buy second-hand and do collect vintage editions. What mesmerizes me about picking up vintage or second-hand books is the treasures I come across in the little notes or letters that come with those books.
Thank you very much! I know just what you mean - it's so fun to find a postcard tucked between the pages, or an interesting inscription xxx
@@MirandaMills Exactly 😍
I managed to find a lovely copy of Winifred Norling’s The Making of Mara. After reading it again I was pleased to see I still loved it. Now I have 3 Winifred Norling books
Could you please do a video on some of the best places to buy books in Yorkshire? Both vintage and new. Also I am horrifically jealous of your copy of Starlight Barking!! I had 101 Dalmations in the original pink cover and it vanished. I had no idea that the sequel had come out in a matching cover 😳
I was visiting friends in Abbeyleix a few years ago and they took me to a kind of village fête where I picked up a Virago Modern Classics collection of 10 books in a slipcase; the stall-holder asked me if €2 was too much to charge for the lot! I made her take €5!! Absolute bargain!
Oh lovely! I love those VMC editions - they're beautiful! xxx
I just ordered Period Piece today and should have it in a couple of weeks. And I downloaded A Fugue in Time and have started reading it while I wait for the September selection. You and Donna found some lovely vintage books. I hope you have a lovely rest of the week and weekend💕
One fairly recent second hand book I’m really enjoying right now is the adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse with a lovely illustration on the (Dutch) cover by Fiep Westendorp
The Adventures of Sally is so fun! I love Ginger.
@@elizabethbrink3761 He is adorable 😄 and the writing is just so witty!
Always love P G Wodehouse! What a great find xxx
So much fun to watch. I love going to thrift shops for books. I read "They loved to laugh" years and years ago. Wow. Forgot about that one. I can't remember why I loved it but I did. I must admit most of my favorite books then and now are by British authors. So I tend to drool a bit(ok a lot) every time I watch your videos. Not a pretty picture but I can't help it. 😂 Your videos make me happy, my husband not so much because I am getting a lot of book mail lately. Lol. My best wishes to you and your mom. 💐📚💕
I can't remember why I loved it but know I did too, Diane, so I'm curious to read it again and see what its appeal was and if it still holds up!! Haha thank you for your lovely words - so glad these videos make you happy! xxx
Thank you so much for sharing all of the vintage books that you bought! I loved watching this video, Miranda. Vintage and old books are my absolute favorites. Even though I admire gorgeous new editions of books, I still adore the old copies more. My bookcases are mostly filled with vintage books, especially by Agatha Christie, Pearl S. Buck, Elizabeth Goudge, etc. You really inspired me to find a few more editions - Carbonel sounds wonderful! Hoping I can read that book in October. Keep sharing your vintage book buys, please :D Many hugs! xoxo
Hi Miranda! I miss so much going to a bookshop and find such treasures as you found. I live in Germany but I don´t like reading in German (my mothertongue is spanish) so I have to buy them on the internet. Have a nice week! Cheers!
I remember really missing being able to book browse properly when we lived in France. Thank goodness for online shopping! xxx
I've had seriously amazing luck finding Persephone editions in Oxfam bookshops recently, some real classics like Dorothy Whipple and Delafield - so chuffed! I definitely notice that I'm picking up names here and there from your videos so it has made 2nd hand shopping so joyful!
Yesss!!!!! I’ve never been the first comment before that’s exciting… I didn’t read “China Court” and felt extremely left out, but I watched the video and was childishly annoyed at everyone who did.🥰… not annoyed in a mean way just more annoyed with myself... I’m still happy about “Period Piece” and can’t wait to until I get that beautiful edition..
Thank you, Kiki!! Haha I'm sure the Period Piece discussion will be a lot of fun, so I'm really pleased you'll hopefully be able to join in with that one 😊 I know your book was shipped last week so I hope it doesn't take too long to get to you! xxx
@@MirandaMills yes!!!!!! Like Diana told Anne in “Anne of Green Gables “I’ll be haunting the post-office Wednesday” but In my case watching the mailman very closely..🥰
“How To be Topp” and “Dear Teddy Robinson” are happy covers, I love Maurice Sendak’s artwork too especially the Character “Little Bear” side note this is my comment about this video, the first was because there was hundreds on the previous video😊🥰 That was an awesome second hand book haul.. Thank you Miranda
Thanks so much, Kiki! Glad you enjoyed it. I love those covers too! xxx
What a great haul. I have been downsizing my books but when I took some into a local charity shop last week I spotted a vintage penguin copy of Brighton Rock so had to take it home with me. I am currently reading The Weather in the Streets and read Period Piece earlier this year so look forward to your book club discussion.
I always love spotting vintage Penguin books too! 🐧 ❤️ 📚
Oh wow Miranda, great vintage haul. I recently had similar good luck at a used bookstore, I found a huge stack of DE Stevenson, Miss Read, Georgette Heyer, Rosamunde Pilcher hardbacks. It was glorious!
Oh what lovely finds! I love a red letter book day! xxx
Dear Miranda , I love your RUclips channel. I especially appreciate your focus being everything British!!!
Aww I love this. Your collection has brought back so many childhood memories for me especially the ladybird books. I love getting second hand books especially children’s books, our (me and my 4 year old son)favourites so far is a vintage children’s poem collection by A.A Milne (we read this every day) and Postman Pat by John Arthur Cunliffe. The illustrations in these books are amazing. I also collect a lot of vintage Roald Dahl’s adult books and recently found some great Agatha Christie collections as well. Amazing what a great book finds there are out there. Thanks for sharing and enjoy reading them!
Aw, I love the A A Milne poetry collections too. Your vintage book collection sounds fabulous, Yumi! xxx
Lovely video as always! :) I wasn't able to get to China Court in August but have ordered Period Piece all ready for the next discussion so will be looking forward to that. Lots of these book recommendations look amazing. I might have just ordered Henrietta's House so bang goes my plan to budget better!
Thanks so much, Emma! So pleased you'll be reading Period Piece along with us. Henrietta's House is such a sweet story - enjoy!! xxx
Also love secondhand books, you get to find true gems! And you can imagine the lives behind the lives of the books. 👍
Hi Miranda
Loved all those lovely old timers! I love that these old titles are making a comeback! I found a gorgeous little copy of H.E. Bates. The Feast Of July. I haven’t seen this before it has a gorgeous old dust jacket. It’s published by The Book Club Not dated! My $A 8.00 find.
Do you have this & have you read it?? ❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺
Lovely to see your wonderful haul of old books - I love buying them so much myself, and it is almost as good to watch other people enjoying their own finds! I love Georgette Heyer and hadn’t seen the new covers - and gosh, they are so generic. I am definitely keeping all my old ones! One book I was wondering if you’d read is another ‘little people’ story, The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui, which I loved.
Thank you so much! I haven't read the book you recommend, but it sounds very interesting! I'll have to look up 😊 xxx
Great haul! I love buying second hand books! I recently bought an Elizabeth Gaskell that I haven't read before for 25 cents! I love the Georgette Heyer books you found. I love the painted covers the best too!
The borrower s was my favourite as a child of the fifties
I have Venetia by Georgette Heyer but haven't read it yet. I used to read The Chronicles of Narnia to my children every winter.
Thank you for another interesting vlog Miranda. I do look forward to these. There's a short story by Margaret J Baker called 'We didn't mean to fly' about three children who realise one morning that they can fly, and about 24 hours later realise that they no longer have this power. There's no particular drama about the acquisition and then loss of this wonderful ability, but they do have a bit of an adventure while they still have the gift, which they wouldn't have had without it. It's a delightful story, one of five in a book called The Young Magicians, the (in my opinion) gorgeous cover of which depicts one of the children flying. Am planning to read more by MJB.
Thank you so much Miranda, this was wonderful. I love Carbonnel so much and love your vintage copy. I find Abebooks a bit hit and miss but I managed to get an immaculate copy of Geordie by David Walker which is one of my favourite Scottish books. It's about a small, weedy boy in the Highlands who does a correspondence course in body building and ends up competing in the 1956 Olympics in Boston as a big strapping hammer thrower. The dust jacket has lovely illustrations by Shirley Hughes. Do you know it?
No, I don't know that book, but thank you very much for the recommendation! I love Shirley Hughes so will have to look that up xxx
Oh this was really wonderful. What an amazing trove of books from the village fete. That particular edition of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe was the exact one I had as a little girl. Book covers are so important, especially to children I think. I remember poring over the covers of all my books and searching out all the little details. If you like Gerald Durrel's writing you might like his "The Donkey Rustlers" which I absolutely lived as a child and nought recently as a vintage copy. I greatly enjiy vintage books (as long as they are clean! And not musty smelling), I recently found a wonderful 2003 Folio edition of The Once and Future King trilogy by TH White; The Sword in The Stone being one of my all time favourite books. It has wonderful illustrations by John Lawrence and I am so thrilled to have it. Thank you for such an enjoyable bookish video Miranda. X
I can never resist a vintage puffin paperback! Lovely secondhand haul.
Loved this video! I adore vintage books, they have such charm! All your finds were lovely but I especially love the puffin paperbacks - those beautiful covers! Teddy Robinson is such a favourite of mine and brings me many happy memories of reading him to my daughter too when she was younger.
Loved seeing your books! What great finds at a fabulous price! I love getting books at thrift shops!
Hello Miranda, well I love browsing second hand books and this video was a delight. My favourite finds are old gardening or cookery books and Girl's Own Annuals, oh and nature books and home making....... you will know how that goes on! This month I found a copy of Odham's Home Cookery Illustrated and I see that for tea on a Wednesday in the first week of Autumn they suggest brown bread and jam, swiss roll and ginger biscuits. Priceless! Thank you so much for this fun video, Teresa 🍂🤎🧡💛☕️📚🍂
Oh my goodness! You are so knowledgeable and lovely to listen to! I am addicted to old books, thus secondhand booksellers are my favorite places to seek out wherever I find myself, so it seems we belong to the same tribe! Thank you for sharing what sounds like a perfect day and all the wonderful treasures you and your Mum discovered. So nice to have found you, I’ve subscribed and will gladly do some catching up in order to participate in your bookclub! :)
What great finds, you remind me that I must step over my lingering Covid fears to better second hand bookshops further afield. I am a new subscriber and supporter, so enjoying working through your archive, and following up on your terrific reading ideas, including subscribing to The Scribbler. I wanted to highlight that the British Library classics are on 3 for 2 offer at the BL shop. I look forward to the next Comfort Bookclub.
I have the same edition of the Oscar Wilde stories and like you, The Selfish Giant was my favourite of the collection and always made me cry ...
I received The Magician’s Nephew by CS Lewis in the same vintage edition as a prize for high marks in elocution when I was about 8 or 9!!
What a great haul you got at the village fair!
Thank you, Fiona; I was so pleased with all these books! The Selfish Giant is such a moving story ❤️ xxx
Unseen childhoods sounds fascinating. Heidi and Pollyanna have disability in them too and came to mind . One of the Pollyanna sequels actually addresses very well a friend of Pollyanna’s who needs assistance walking and how he wishes to be independent and not pitied. The Selfish Giant is such a beautiful story.
I think it will be a really interesting read! Very much looking forward to getting to it xxx
I was just reading about The Winter Princess in Grayladies Scribbler vol. 15 and thought it looked like a sweet story. Also that little witch book looks adorable! Books about witches are my addiction.
I remembered it was reviewed in The Scribbler too, which made me even more pleased to stumble across it! xxx
Miranda, have you ever read Tapioca for Tea by Sarah Shears ? My grandma gave it to me as a child as an avid reader and I have just got another copy x
Funnily enough I was just asked this question the other day too. I haven't, but my Mum has and she enjoyed it! xxx
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Wow what a fabulous haul, I’m green with envy 😆!!