Most Loved Vintage Books from My Bookshelves

[@MJ-in-Canada]

Your Mum really is The Book Whisperer!📚

[@doctormimi9486]

This is still one of my favorite Miranda videos of all time -

[@heatherdorsey4770]

I think a Thursday upload is perfect. You deserve rest on the weekend. ❤

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much, Heather! 🩷

[@hellopaulie]

When I was a child I had a collection of Nancy Drews, Trixie Beldons, Lucy Maud Montgomerys, and Laura Ingalls Wilder books. This is what young Canadian girls read in the 70s and early 80s. I was heartbroken when they were all destroyed in a flood. I have gone on to collect different types of novels in my adult life and have never replaced them. But I am truly happy for others when I see their childhood collections and that they are still bringing them joy. You have a wonderful collection. I completely understand your feelings about Sundays. We all need to rest and replenish and I will enjoy your videos no matter when they are uploaded. That's the nice thing about youtube. We can catch up with you whenever it fits into our schedules too.

[@MirandaMills]

That must, indeed, have been hard when your childhood collections were lost in a flood 😔I was so very sorry to read that!Thank you so much for your understanding and support ❤️📚❤️🙏

[@livres.n]

Can't get enough of your channel

[@reginabrown5059]

Ballet Shoes I believe Meg Ryan talks about in You’ve Got Mail. My favorite show!

[@deniseadorian]

One of my favorite authors and stories, Winter Solstice!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!

[@lauramaga2084]

This video is a little jewel: so generous of you to share such precious books. Books can really mean the world to us for different reasons …my most cherished books are children’s books that belonged to my mother as a little girl and she passed them on to me. First she read them to me and then I read them by myself. When I need comfort, I open one of those books and reading it I can still hear her voice❤

[@MirandaMills]

That’s so special and touching, Laura! Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️📚💐

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Happy Sunday! Nothing more comforting than vintage books. 👏🏽

[@sarahevans1713]

Some of my most treasured vintage books were ones my mum kept that she won as Sunday school prizes back in the 50s, Bunchy, Milly Molly Mandy etc and they will always be so special to me ❤

[@MirandaMills]

Those sound very special to me too! 🩷📚

[@joannmaccready1835]

Love Rumer Golden. Love the Miss Read books. So many favourites.

[@madelainebaillet7422]

Hi Miranda, Thank you for sharing your favourite vintage books😊 ! I found last summer in a second-hand bookstore in London a old edition of Miss Read's stories; It was in fact a old copy from Boots, when they had a library service in the fifties; a good book and piece of history too ! Have a nice weekend 😊📚

[@susanfisher4344]

My most treasured book is a boxed set of The Lord of the Rings that I received as a gift in the 1970s. They are lovely hardbacks with foldout maps of Middle Earth in them and a beautiful embossed image of the ring on the front covers.

[@alisonnicholson8060]

My Scottish granny sent me "The Naughtiest Girl in School" book I can't remember the author. Many of these things have been lost over the years. I loved to read them as a child.

[@tullybee9344]

Enid Blyton wrote that series.

[@Blondie101010100]

I think the author was Enid Blyton.

[@karenwhite2601]

The author is Enid Blyton. A fun read.

[@chrissy1510]

Enid Blyton 😊

[@MicheleBlumberg-u6n]

When I was a little girl in Canada I fell in love with a book called Petite Suzanne by Margeurite D'Angeli which is beautifully illustrated by her also. The map of the town she describes and the beautiful images of the Gaspe Penninsula in Quebec enchanted me, I used to carry this book around with me and read it over and over. I also loved her book- The Door In the Wall. These books have stayed with me my whole life.

[@naomihickman5098]

What a treat to see some of your amazing vintage collection! The covers are so beautiful and I always feel the same about signed copies by favourite authors, it’s a real thrill to think they have held that very copy and see their handwriting! I loved your tale of ringing Margaret Biggs across the Atlantic - how wonderful! There is something so special about reading a vintage book, often much older than me, and likely to outlive me too! Some of my most beloved vintage books are my Edith Nesbits, Lorna Hills, LM Montgomerys, Georgette Heyers and Miss Reads. I laughed at your mention of saving extra special books in a hypothetical fire as I sometimes make lists in my head of which of my books I would grab first (if I could!) in just that event! Thank you for another wonderful watch.

[@TLK526]

Whimsical Sunday to you and your Mom. I love finding vintage copies of books, they are like having treasures on your bookshelves.

[@MirandaMills]

I so agree! ❤️📚

[@laurac56]

I collect vintage Miss Reads (esp the omnibus editions)and a number of favorite books like: China Court, O the Brave Music, The Half-Crown House, Grandchildren at Hay Hill, Period Piece, The White Gate, and, my newest purchase, a slipcased set of Angela Thirkell’s High Rising & Wild Strawberries, the latter being my favorite Thirkell.

[@lisac1619]

I'm glad to hear you'll be changing to Thursday uploads. In New Zealand, we're a day ahead of you so I'll be able to watch it as an end of week treat. Am glad you'll have a more enjoyable weekend too.

[@lindahenderson1625]

Good for you for putting your needs first. You’re a hard working, generous KZbinr and you deserve time away from your workaday world. Thanks for all that you do. Best wishes 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@shirleymcmurtrie7853]

Dear Miranda, thank you so very much for sharing these delightful treasures! ❤

[@cathyspratling4254]

I always love the Elyne Mitchell Snowy River & Silver Brumby series, I read these books in my early teens, and living a few hours from the 'High Country' in Victoria, I was lucky enough to see the region for myself. xoxo

[@lizzieh5284]

Thank you so much, Miranda, for showing us your vintage collection and the stories of how you aquired them. How lovely that you got to meet some if your favourite authors.😊❤

[@MirandaMills]

Thanks so much, Lizzie! I feel so lucky to have met them! 🩷📚

[@sandyokey1019]

Such an incredible collection made even more special with your memories🥰 Thank you for sharing them with us. No matter what day you upload your videos are a special treat💕 I hope the week ahead is a good one for you and Donna.

[@ingaurban404]

Dear Miranda, this video was just incredible. You have so many wonderful editions, even signed ones, of your favorite books, that is so wonderful! I have collected Alison Uttley books since I was introduced to her by you, especially the books for adults. As for children's books my very favorite author is Astrid Lindgren and I loved her books as a child and still read them sometimes as a comfort as well. I still have all my copies from her books from my childhood.She is a Swedish author, I think not all of her books are translated into English though. I was somehow very touched by this video. Also I wanted to thank you for all the seasons of story uploads of this week, you are such a hard worker. I haven't even had time to watch and read all of the new articles of yours, but I am looking forward to them, when I'll find the time! Have a wonderful week! 💗💗💗

[@LedgerAndLace]

Pippi Longstocking!!! LOVED those books when I was a kid in the 70's (in the U.S.) 🙂

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much for your very kind comment, Inga! xxx

[@loribackes9321]

Miranda, that was so much fun seeing some of your vintage books. I do collect some affordable ones and typically random ones.

[@carolsutton8565]

Thanks! Your feeling of genuine gratitude for these books and your time spent enjoying them came across so clearly.

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much for your lovely support, Carol! I so appreciate it, and I'm glad you enjoyed this video ❤️

[@sarahculley4646]

I've just started collecting hardback vintage Georgette Heyer books. I love the cover art on them. I used to have a Heidi copy from my godmother but I cant find it. I'm so gutted about that. I'm really enjoying watching your videos ❤

[@susanbaird4552]

I love collecting vintage editions. Some of my favorites include books illustrated by Tasha Tudor- my childhood copy of The Secret Garden(much loved) and a signed copy of Little Women(Tasha Tudor signature). Recently, I have been collecting the Allyn and Bacon editions of Sir Walter Scott and also complete sets of works by George Eliot and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[@MirandaMills]

Those sound like very special editions! ❤️📚

[@andraste6746]

How lovely that you made that connection with Margaret Biggs. And OT but your hair looks wonderful

[@vickycroft9146]

Loving all of these beautiful vintage books 📚 ❤

[@karenallington2359]

I’ve just finished reading Winter Solstice and really enjoyed it, such a cosy read over Winter.

[@exomake_mehorololo]

My family mostly only has old copies of adult books like geography books and such but as a young teenager when visiting my great grandmother she gave me an old children's novel about a little squirrel and his adventures with very pretty illustrations. It was from the early 30s and I think a friend gifted it to her. I took it with me as I likely was the only one who had an interest in it. I have randomly read a lot of children's novels from the different decades of the last century from different libraries throughout my life. I don't remember the names of most but there were so many stories that I think are just as interesting or relatable to kids today

[@MirandaMills]

How special to have a book given to you by your great grandmother 💕📚

[@Laura-rx9mp]

Thanks Miranda. I Donn't read much but I love listen to your videos. Your energy is wonderful. Cheers

[@maryfilippou6667]

I am so glad you kicked off with Rumer Godden as she was kind enough to answer my letter with one of her own. Authors were kind and quick to return Letters in the '70s and '80s. I still have my mother's Dorothy Dainty, her 6th birthday gift which I loved as a child and found a teenage update only two years ago at the marvelous antiquarian bookshop next block from work, now sadly moved on. Shirley Hughes a very favorite of mine which I bought any current copy for my children. Thank you and so glad with your moves too, you retained so many from childhood. My favorite Mary Poppins edition was lost and Jan and His Clogs, a St Nicholas story. Your dear Mother is so thoughtful and diligent.

[@MirandaMills]

I’m such a big fan of her writing! It’s so lovely to hear she wrote back! ❤️📚

[@inlaterdays]

I loved seeing all these treasures from your shelves! Especially the signed and personalized books. I really need to read more Elizabeth Goudge - I love The Little White Horse, too. My favorite book that I have ever owned is probably a book about indoor gardening from the 1890s, with illustrations. It was a Christmas gift from my parents. 😊

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you! I’m sure if you loved The Little White Horse, you’d enjoy many more of her books too. ❤️📚

[@MyLocsareREAL]

Miranda, I love that you still have books from when you were a child, it tells me how fantastic and Magical your childhood must have been..And a Sign copy of “Winter Solstice” by Rosamunde Pilcher was the mic drop.. you know I love her (thanks to you) and guess what it’s one of the few books that I’ve actually re read.. 💕🥰

[@maryflaherty7096]

Some of children’s books sound familiar. Want to read, A Year in the Country. Just finished, The Farmer’s Wife by Helen Rebanks. Love to read about England. Beautiful flowers in vase by you.

[@maries3000]

I found this fascinating and you have some lovely vintage classics. My mum introduced me to the Chalet School series when I was young and I loved the idea of boarding school. I also enjoyed Mallory Towers. I haven’t come across some of these titles before, so I will be looking out for them.

[@Blondie101010100]

Great video, Miranda. Love your hair and the flower display! 😍

[@abigailandmoongarden]

🌷📚🫖 What a treasure trove! You never disappoint and we can always count on you for beauty and inspiration. 💖💛The old edition covers are truly what dreams are made of for book lovers. And your personal stories to go with them add such a dazzling authentic touch! ✨🩰🤍📒 I collect vintage cookbooks. I have a 1940s one that I found at a vintage store, but it makes me feel close to my grandmother who would have been a newlywed at that time. ❤💒

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much! How fun to collect vintage cookbooks! xxx

[@abigailandmoongarden]

@@MirandaMills xx!

[@QuirkyGirl10]

What wonderful memories your vintage books must evoke! And that you (and your mom) were able to somehow snag so many signed copies - amazing! Your mom should be a professional book hunter, a book fairy of sorts, bestowing hard-to-find treasures on appreciative readers. There’s nothing like finding the exact copy of a beloved book that you’ve been searching a long time for😊 As for vintage children’s books I’ve collected - some of the Little House paperback editions by Laura Ingalls Wilder and hardcover editions of the All-of-a-Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor. BTW, I am a fellow lover of Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy Tacy series, some of my most favorite books from childhood😊

[@blonde761]

I loved this video so much Miranda! What a treat it would be to spend a day browsing your library. I have a few books that I’ve had from childhood that I cherish - a couple of Nancy Drew books and the All of a Kind Family series. I’m hoping to one day give them to my granddaughter to love and cherish!

[@glendaslanina9939]

Thank you for the wonderful zoom book club meeting. I’ve already ordered August’s book.

[@MirandaMills]

I’m so delighted you enjoyed it, Glenda! Thank you so much for your very generous support! It means so much to me! 🩷📚💐🙏

[@LisaofHopewell]

Nice. I must read Greengage summer!

[@jolloyd2293]

So many of my own favourites here. I think I first read Illyrian Spring in my late teens ( and Peking Picnic). I'm going to have to hunt some copies down I think. Elizabeth Goudge, Rosamunde Pilcher and Alison Uttley... all these authors have a very special way of writing and their books are on my shelves. My copy of Elizabeth Goudge's autobiography "Joy of the Snow" was originally my grandmothers, and it is battered and completely falling apart. So I'm thrilled that Girls Gone By are republishing it later this year. Then there's the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent Dyer. I have every single one bar one - and GGBP are republishing that too shortly. I remember first coming across the Abbey School books when I was waiting for a check up at Gt Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children...funnily enough I was happy to wait for hours to see the consultant that day! Thank you so much for this lovely trip down memory lane. Oh and absolutely its right that you claim your weekends back!

[@kamicastillo1451]

Good morning Miranda and Donna 🌄. So excited to watch the video😊

[@MirandaMills]

Hope you enjoyed it, Kami! 📚❤️📚

[@Penny-ws4mz]

How special with a book from the library of Dorothy L. Sayers! Good idea to change your posting schedule to give you more time for a break over the weekends. Your videos are always such a welcome treat whenever you are able to post.

[@MirandaMills]

Thanks so much, Penny! xxx

[@wendyryan1618]

My most precious vintage books are ones with sentimental attachments - a 1930's edition of Wind in the Willows with fighter planes in the margin drawn by my late Dad as a child; and a 1947 edition of an Australian children's book called Karralta by Mary Grant Bruce. It was a favourite of my Mum's that she always reminisced about but had lost track of in childhood. I found a copy in my little local 2nd hand bookshop and gave it to Mum one Christmas, just a few years before she passed away.

[@marthajumartins]

This video is so precious. Can't wait for the next Comfort Book Club discussion ❤ Hope you and Donna, the Book Whisperer, have a lovely week ahead 😊

[@gailgilchrist5421]

Revisiting favorite books from childhood is always fun. A couple years ago I discovered on a shelf in one of my closets a box full of Scholastic Books Services paperbacks dating from my elementary school years. While they by no means would be considered "vintage," they were all books I had enjoyed reading at the time. My favorite was Shadow Castle by Marian Cockrell. The most vintage book in my collection is one given to me by my great Aunt Mildred when I was 11 called The Voyage of the Mary Adair by Frances E. Crompton. It was given to her by a friend when she was a child herself. The book has a lovely cover with a picture of a girl in a sailor dress holding a model ship. There is no publication date but it looks like it would have been published around the turn of the last century. What makes it really special is the inscription that my great aunt wrote to me.

[@brendawomack5380]

I love Rosamund and Robin Pilchers books. I've lost track how many times I've read them. I also love The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter.

[@normamunson9726]

Enjoyed your vintage books collection so much. I also love vintage copies and feel so fortunate to have two from Barbara Pym's own library by Elizabeth Taylor (the author) and inscribed by Barbara Pym, both including the sticker "Ex Libris Barbara Pym 1913-1980". One is "Angel" with the inscription "Barbara Pym London-February 1959" and the other "A Wreath of Roses" with just Pym's name. A dear friend purchased them for me in Oxford at the sale of Pym's library at Blackwell's book shop. Another precious book is the novel "Death in Holy Orders" by P.D. James. My son stood in line after a talk by her in Chicago and bought the signed copy and had it inscribed to me for a birthday gift.

[@micheleelvin-bc8sw]

What a lovely collection of vintage favourites, Miranda. Donna is indeed a book whisperer! My two special vintage books are volumes my father bought my mother in 1950s when they were courting, which my mother gave to me and which I hold very dear. One is a book of Rupert Brooke's poetry and one is an illustrated book of all Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales printed in Denmark (its in English translated from the Danish) with a Danish illustrator. It shows the stories as they were first written and far more disturbing than the watered down children's versions we are more used to reading. A good example that books once written as moral tales in the 1800s can be read and enjoyed by adults and children.

[@paolacannavo4328]

What little treasures for people who like vintage books! Thank you for your videos which are always very interesting ! Kisses from Italy

[@moweaquas]

So glad you’re finding a rhythm of work that’s best for you. Weekends are critical pauses that reinvigorate and broaden our minds. Enjoy. I had an extensive collection of the Bobbsey Twin books that have been lost in time. But I remember the color of the spine and now they lined up on my shelves. Now I read almost exclusively e-books. But I do love looking at full bookcase. And of course your amazing flower arrangement

[@melindaohme619]

I too began my love of reading with the Betsy Tacey books. I'm alot older than you though, and could find them at my library in Portland Oregon. I remember having to wait for weeks sometimes to get the next book in the series, because they were so popular. And one of my favorite authors is Rosamunde Pilcher. I've read all of her books, I think. I loved them all, especially "September".

[@Bearcub599]

Happy Sunday! A lovely nostalgic video 😊

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you! You too! 💕📚

[@monica_has116lentilsand2cats]

Oh my word! What absolute treasures you are lucky enough to own. So interesting to hear the stories how they came to you. Thanks for sharing - wonderful video! I grew up in the 1970s (pre-anything digital/internet) and I had a few favorite children‘s books. But because I moved out very early and kept on moving around I had to leave behind my children‘s books and most of them disappeared over the years. I mourned the loss of one especially - because I could not remember the name of the author. Or the title. Whenever I‘d hit a used book store or flea market I would browse through the children‘s section, hoping to spot it. I‘d ask book sellers about it, telling them the story, but nobody ever knew what I was talking about. And then, more than 30 years later, we had just moved to Dresden/Germany from New York and it was one of my first trips to a „bric-a-brac store“ (really more of a hodge podge of broken bits `n pieces from the last decades) I found the book. I got so excited, I started tearing up. There it was! In this old and decrepit (literally holes in the roof and tarps over parts of the merchandise) building with only 1 shelf of books I found MY beloved book. And then - I left it behind by accident. I was with a friend who was visiting and she ended up buying quite a few things and the vendor was very chatty and I was hyped and nervous - and either he forgot to put it in the bag or I forgot to grab it - but when we got home, it wasn‘t there. I‘d lost it again. This wasn‘t a business with regular opening hours or even a phone number to call. It was just a guy selling old stuff whenever he felt like it. I did not sleep that night. Neither my husband nor my friend could assuage my fears that the book had disappeared again. This time truly forever. First thing the next morning I drove there again. The building was closed. No sign as to when the store would be open again or even a phone number. But my friend spotted a bulging blue plastic bag wedged between the door and its rotting frame. We pulled out the flimsy bag. And there it was. Again, again. This time I properly cried. I read it that very day and loved it as much as ever. And now that I know the title and author, „Auntie Robbo“ by Ann Scott-Moncrieff has been my gift of choice for any reader in my vicinity. Give it a try, you might end up loving it as well. Thanks for letting me share my memory - lots of love to you and your darling mum - Monica (currently living in tiny-town Austria) 📚🫶🏻❤️🐾🐾

[@C.Aikman-yj7fq]

A beautiful flower arrangement on the side table, Miranda. 💐

[@bookprincess612]

Such a charming collection ❣️📚📚📚

[@bettymaugeri7316]

Thank you for sharing your treasured books with us!

[@insearchofwonder]

Wow, what an amazing collection! Truly a treasure.

[@glendaslanina9939]

Good morning. I am so glad you made the decision to move to Thursday. You work so hard for your subscribers that having a personal Sunday is much needed👏🏻 Yesterday’s discussion was wonderful. I love hearing everyone’s perspective on a book. One perspective that really had me thinking was that the father may have had Alzheimer’s. Hmmm, interesting possibility. I love vintage books and I collect dog books. I also have kept all my children’s books that had a birthday inscription to me. Since I’m in my 60s, some of those books are pretty old. Thank you for an enjoyable trip down your memory lane. 🌸🐾

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much for your kind words, Glenda! I’m so happy you enjoyed the Seasons of Story book club discussion too! It’s so special to have vintage books that mean so much to you! ❤️📚🙏

[@kellymurphy6445]

What a delightful video! I have my original collection of Nancy Drews, The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Little Women and my Anne of Green Gables collection.

[@SallyAnn191]

I expect your mum had a lot of fun tracking down those books. My parents recognised I was a reader at an early age (my dad actually built me a bookshelf in my bedroom!), and supplied me with lovely books - some of which I still have. I remember The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor by Enid Blyton, and I loved the Paddington books (one signed by Michael Bond).

[@tamcat7384]

Thanks for the lovely walk down memory lane and sharing with us some of your most precious vintage books. What a truly fantastic and inspiring video!

[@MirandaMills]

So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much! xxx

[@mariaprodromou6230]

Thank you so much for sharing your vintage books with us. ❤

[@suebraid2480]

Dear Miranda, loved your vlog as usual. Love and have all Maud Heart Lovelace. I found an original copy of Emily of Deep Valley at my favourite thrift shop for $3.00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh the thrill of it all! Sue from Hamilton, Ontario🥰😍

[@karenwhite2601]

Lovely to hear about some titles in your wonderful collection. I don't think non book lovers would quite understand the special feeling when a vintage copy is found, especially if it is signed by the author. There's immediately that connection, knowing that the book has been handled by a favourite author. My School at the Chalet isn't a first edition but it is signed by Elinor Brent Dyer and a treasured copy because of that.

[@anitaalfred2880]

I'm so happy you are changing your upload day to Thursday! I hope that brings you some respite! Love the vintage books you showcased today! I have a few Enid Blyton books from my childhood that are among my prized possessions! I've also collected the full Chalet school collection and am working on an Easton Press collection of a few classics.

[@Courtney6]

Such lovely books! I would be interested in a vlog someday where you share your book care routine. How you clean and maintain them. I’m particularly thinking about keeping silverfish and other bugs away! Looking forward to Thursdays now.

[@jaynewalton8712]

Thank you for this brilliant video Miranda. It's such a perfect antidote to the stresses of modern life. I think your videos should be on prescription!

[@DianneWood-kg7dk]

A fascinating look at your favourite ediions Miranda, i can really relate! Ballet Shoes was a great favourite of mine too, i was especially fascnated by the two women in it who were Shakespeare scholars. It taught me thst women could make scholarship thrir life. Amazing!

[@yolandasilverio1205]

Your flowers are beautiful!!!!!

[@ArtemisC.DAragon]

Thank you, Miranda!!! Love this video💞🤩

[@MirandaMills]

I’m so glad! Thank you.💕📚💕

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Loved the disclaimer before ‘If there was a fire’ 😂

[@Catherine-2008]

Your hair looks so pretty, love it!

[@karenallington2359]

The National Theatre is putting on a production of Ballet Shoes later this year 🙂

[@Deborahwinter-g3z]

Thank you Miranda. My absolute favorite book is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

[@BCKMPH]

Thanks for sharing that delightful collection, Miranda, and I am quite in awe of Donna's powers in spotting the rare and desirable in books (at a reasonable price!). I have a grubby copy of John Julius Norwich's Christmas Cracker --1979 (found on a free table) signed by him which I am happy to have.

[@kathybea2532]

I love hearing you discuss your favorite books! I'm a Rumer Godden fan, and have been since I first read "An Episode of Sparrows" as a kid, but I'm not really familiar with the boarding school girl type novels (even though I was a total bookworm as a kid, I gravitated more toward books featuring horses and dogs, as well as fairy tale collections and novels with historical settings), so I do enjoy learning more about them. I was excited to see you mention "The Daisy Chain" by Charlotte Mary Yonge, as I really loved this book when I read it some years ago. I also highly recommend another of her novels, "The Clever Woman of the Family." Anyway, thanks as always for an enjoyable video!

[@charlottefinch4283]

Hi Miranda, loved watching this! I’m fresh back from a lovely week in Bronte country seeing the sights with my darling Dad and managed to bag myself a vintage copy of Jo of the Chalet school in York Oxfam books! Your lovely Mum once mentioned the magic name Winifred Fortescue whose work I’d already collected and read as well as an inscribed copy! Treasure indeed! I did have them on a bookshelf by a window incase I needed to smash and grab! I adore what you do and want you to talk books forever so glad to hear your weekends will be for you! X

[@chrissy1510]

This was such a lovely video, Miranda, it made me feel so nostalgic! I’m trying to collect the books that I loved most as a child, mainly because I really want to read them again. Most of them were books I borrowed from my school library. The title I’d most love to get my hands on is Rumer Godden’s The Dolls House (it may have been A dolls house, I can’t remember.) Do you have this one? I’ve never seen a copy anywhere!

[@gilliankelly611]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful treasures with us Miranda. What a lovely collection.

[@marionknell630]

It was such a pleasure to see and hear you talk about your special books. I also enjoyed reading through all of the comments, about other peoples book treasures too. I too adore Alison Uttley’s essays and books, with thanks and credit to you for introducing me to her. I have managed to collect a good few. Even seeing one of her books with a handwritten card inside was a joy for me. My favourite Elizabeth Goudge book is a vintage copy of The Eliots of Damerosehay. I also have a beautiful blue leather bound set of Jane Austen’s books that I treasure above all other books and a Folio Society collection of her letters. I dream about having a Hugh Thomson illustrated peacock edition of Pride and Prejudice one day. I have a vintage copy of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree, it is the first book I fell in love with, I taught myself to read using it. I knew it off by heart, because I would get everyone I could to read it to me over and over again, when they finally couldn’t bare to read the story again and point blank refused to read the same book again… I wanted to read it again so badly, that I learnt to read it myself. I adore my 1960’s vintage copy.

[@idabustamante7081]

Hello Miranda tfs your cherish vintage books 📚 . . what an awesome collection . . enjoy your Sunday take care blessings to you and your mum ♥️🙋‍♀️🌻🌷🦋🪻💐🐦🌺

[@matxalenbilbao1521]

What a special video! I love your love for reading and books! I would love to know more about girls gone by and where to start with their books. Thanks for putting and effort to show us some of your wonderful collection. Your mum is superb!

[@mhairigilchrist9792]

Some wonderful books there, with precious signatures and messages. Growing up in 1970s Scotland ( bit of a grim time, not much money etc) my favourites were Enid Blytons Mallory Towers, St Clare's, Secret Seven and Famous Five. My Gran would buy me the What Katy Did books and Heidi books, I just loved those. I must look out for some of those titles and read them, they sound delightful. Love your KZbin channel and the Bookish Almanac community, and hopefully at some point I'll join the Substack and Seasons of Stories communities. Thanks again for another lovely episode. ❤

[@sophiew6786]

This was a wonderful video, such a wonderful collection of treasures, thank you for sharing 😊. Videos on a Thursday will be a wonderful way to start the weekend 😊.

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much!

[@hannahbest2274]

Ahhh lovely video, I still have my William Horwood Duncton wood collection, paperbacks which must be about 40 years old, The heart of the Valley by Nigel Hinton one I read every few years at this time of year, and a very battered paperback copy of the secret garden and another battered book the stream that stood still by Beverley Nichols. Just a few. Trying to collect flower arranging books at the moment 😂

[@susandrouin1243]

Thank you for sharing your favourite books, I will try to find some of them as I love a lot of your recommendations. Off the topic at hand, May I say that your hair looks especially gorgeous today, and the floral arrangement reminds me of a painting by one of the old masters…..I’m obsessed 🥰

[@juliepaulson1880]

Hi Miranda, I just finished watching your latest video. I’m not a huge reader, but the last thing I read that was my favorite that spoiled me from reading other books for a long time was the Mitford series by Jan Karon best I’ve ever read I cried for half an hour when I finished the last book in the series.❤. I Thrifted each book in the series series all hardcover very much a treasure to me.

[@carolbialy5920]

This was such a treat. I loved sharing your prize possessions. I have many sweet memories of beloved books and authors most especially Tales of the Arabian Nights. I read and reread a golden books version when I was a very young girl and since then have a very hard time passing by any edition I see in a second hand shop. I have quite a collection now and still feel the exotic thrill of these stories. Thank you, Miranda for inspiring another trip down memory lane!❤

[@elizabethbrink3761]

Love this video! I just read The Daisy Chain at the end of 2023. That's amazing that Dorothy Sayers owned that copy!! I've been reading a lot of Charlotte Yonge in the last two years. I'm reading Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary right now for the first time and loving it! That is so special about the Margaret Biggs book and meeting Antonia Forest!

[@BooksandRadioPlays]

That was interesting, thank you. I have vintage children's books, mysteries and classics. The thing that has struck me since I joined KZbin, is that I have not read many children's classics that wasn't a Disney movie. The exceptions I did grow up with was Heidi, Charlotte's Webb and Little Women. I have read and collected many beautiful vintage editions of those books. The Little Prince, The Secret Garden and I am about to read A Little Princess for the first time. I never read The Wind in the Willows, which i just purchased and so many that you all talk about.

[@virginiatowsey7381]

Thanks

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much for your very kind support, Virginia! I so appreciate it ❤️

[@susanfisher4344]

You love so many of my favorite authors! I adore Rumer Godden and I think In this House of Brede may be my favorite. Also Elizabeth Goudge, favorites are Pilgrim’s Inn and The Dean’s Watch. I’m excited to read Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary.

[@bebebrownsdollhaul6444]

Oh I love this video. Inspiring

[@kimswhims8435]

A lovely video. I have a small vintage collection of Aus women writers, Miles Franklin, M. Barnard Eldershaw, Mary Grant Bruce, Ruth Park (a book from her personal library with her signature), Judith Wright and Henry Handle Richardson are some that I can remember. I've only really started collecting the old vintage copies recently but I'm finding it really interesting and most of the time I can pick some of them up for a few dollars. Although, the signed copies are too much these days. I saw a signed Miles Franklin for $800AUD a month or so ago and that was at a reduced price but I decided against it. I also look for their books secondhand in the green Viragos.