Wednesday 17 November 2010

An acquisition

Although I have stopped buying books online, and really tried hard over the last few months to resist buying books (in fact, resist buying anything!), I do still love looking out for Green Viragos in second hand bookshops. Luckily, one seems to see the same ones over and over again, and I have most of these, which is good for the financials, but occasionally one will spot something slightly rarer, and have to pounce. We went to Thame at the weekend, and I have picked up several VMCs in the Oxfam bookshop there before. I was very happy to spot a copy of The gypsy's baby by Rosamund Lehmann, which is a collection of her short stories. There are several VMC authors who I would love to own everything they wrote in original green, and Lehmann is one of them, although I have very few of them. I've realised that I never covered this book when I did a catch-up on Rosamund Lehmann early on in this challenge, so I can share the covers here for the first time - the original green one which I stumbled upon, and a modern green version.

4 comments:

  1. Love the original cover. *Want* :)

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  2. I pounced on it when I saw it in a shop a couple of years ago - it has such a lovely cover.

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  3. P.S. As I am not always a purist, when I first started collecting Viragoes I culled original green Invitation to the Waltz and The Weather in the Streets; I had duplicate copies and retained the pastel editions instead. I don't regret it but how I wish I knew you then to pass them on to!

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  4. I do not mind the cover color as long as I could lay my hands on one!

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