Picador White Spines - Virago Modern Classics - 2024 Collection Tour

Picador White Spines - Virago Modern Classics - 2024 Collection Tour
In today's video we take a look at my fledgling vintage Picador white spine collection and my Virago Modern Classics. Both these series I have only recently started collecting but the are great fun, with beautiful covers and on the whole, decent books. I hope you enjoy taking a look!
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[@SlowDazzle11]

Fantastic. Recently, I joined the Picador Collectors Club, thanks to Mr Royle! I already have a core collection of white spine Picadors including Flaubert's Parrot, Ancient Evenings, the Henry Green omnbus and Memoirs of a Survivor, though my copy has a photo of Julie Christie- from the film. I didn't know there was a movie of it. I will try to track down Angela Carter's "Heroes and Villains" with that cover by the painter Grunewald. I have Carter's The Magic Toyshop in Virago Classics, but in the later design. I will keep my eyes open for more Picadors and Viragos. Many thanks.

[@JulesBurt]

Ah great stuff, a fellow Picador collector. Certainly a great list to collect. I wonder how many people have started collecting them after reading Nicholas's book?

[@forenichtreader]

Looking forward to seeing how the Picador and Virago collections grow. The highlights of the Picadors I own are two omnibus editions of Jim Thompson novels. I think I only own one Virago book - Dawn Powell's The Golden Spur. An excellent book, but it seems to be the only Powell novel that Virago ever released.

[@JulesBurt]

Ah yes, I've seen the Jim Thompson omnibuses but never had chance to buy them, yet. I'm enjoying collecting both lists but I need to be mindful of space at the moment! You won't believe what I bought home today, see Sunday's video🙂

[@SubtropicBob]

Very cool!

[@JulesBurt]

Thanks Bob!

[@ProfessorEchoMedia]

Very interesting! We tend to think that graphic design went steadily downhill in the 70’s and 80’s, but many of these are nicely done and definitely of their time. When I graduated high school in 1976 I was determined to start teaching myself all the things that I thought were lacking in my school curriculum, so as part of that I began to devour literature! And sure enough, many wound up in my initial attention and affection based on cover art! So I do remember the designs of that era very well.

[@JulesBurt]

Fantastic Glen! These really are quite a special list and I'm pleased to now bring collecting them. Definitely some titles I'll not be reading though🙂

[@ProfessorEchoMedia]

@@JulesBurt Hahaha, great choice! The very first book I chose from the CLASSICS section in the local bookstore when I was 18 was ISLAND by Aldous Huxley. I loved the cover art and I like any story with a tropical island setting. Well, I learned soon enough it was not really a narrative story, it was more of a philosophical polemic! So good call on skipping some of these Picador “classics!”

[@zetectic7968]

Interesting. I have a couple of Margaret Attwood in Virago: Handmaids Tale & The Blind Assasin. I wanted to buy more Picador but they were always more expensive than Pan, Penguin or Panther. I bought Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys and while an interesting read I found it heavy going and despite buying it on a friend's recommendation I gave away his A Glastonbury Romance as it was like 200 pages longer than Wolf Solent. I did have the Tolkien Companion but that may have gone to make space on the shelf. I shall have to look out for them. Good luck with the white spine collecting & look forward to an update at some point.

[@JulesBurt]

Thanks, depending on how my pick ups go, I'll cover these again in another 18 months or so. The Picadors do generally seem a little more expensive than some other vintage publishers but are worth it in top condition.

[@blackjuju5154]

I was just watching an older video and this appeared.

[@JulesBurt]

Nice🙂

[@Fred-gu6pk]

I would like to say that you and Outlaw have sparked a bit of an interest in the publishers of books i am interested in and the series they printed on particular topics (gardening). There was the gardening book club publishing hardbacks and pan did a series of paperbacks. PS considering how well your local secondhand bookshop has done you, you should probably name it.

[@JulesBurt]

It's the only second hand bookshop in Plymouth, on the Barbican, I don't think it has a name though! Pleased myself and Steve are inspiring you. I have done of those Pan gardening books myself, they are very nice.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Meant to tell you that Virago Modern Classics did publish two books by men, a Wells and a Shaw, I recall them being in print. I think the Shaw was 'An Unsocial Socialist' while the Wells was probably 'Ann Veronica'....it was a long time ago. The other publisher at that time who definitively only issued books by females was of course Women's Press.

[@JulesBurt]

Thanks Steve, a couple more anomalies to look out for. However, the shelves are full, so no more books for a while🙂

[@ElfGoblin]

Very interesting subject. According to the Virago website there are 718 Virago Modern Classics and although i've read quite a few over the years I only have two in my collection - Leonora Carrington's Seventh Horse and Other Tales and Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph (I kept that one because of the cover art which is a detail from Annie Ovenden's Ophelia). It will be interesting to find out which ones, out of the 718, are the rarer and more collectible. I notice there is an edition of Le Guin's Left Hand Of Darkness that I have never seen and which I wouldn't mind owning. As for Picador white spines, i've only got a copy of Anna Kavan's Sleep Has His House which has recently become collectible ( it's also the name of an album by the great Current 93!). Interestingly, in the spring I did read a copy of John Cowper Powys' After My Fashion which was a Picador white spine true first edition though unfortunately it was in poor condition and it fell apart as I was reading it. Anyway, a great video as always.

[@JulesBurt]

Thanks so much. 718 VMC, wow, I'll never get them all! It's just nice to get a selection and to keep an eye out for them, truly a great list. I had no idea they published an edition of Left Hand of Darkness, that must be very collectible indeed. The Picadors turn up much more frequently but the early editions are not printed on great paper and are fragile. Appreciate the comment🙂

[@iansmith9125]

Angela Carter was a proper genius wasn’t she? I wish she was still with us

[@JulesBurt]

Agreed👍

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

I just started to collect Virago, I love them but I am going slowly. I only have four of them.

[@JulesBurt]

They are great to collect but hard to come by it seems🙂

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

@@JulesBurt they are so handsome and they look so well together. Even if I only have four. But yes, they are very hard to find, especially over here.

[@JulesBurt]

@sherrirabinowitz4618 That's exactly right, they look handsome on the shelf🙂