Books you have owned more than 1 copy of?

Pride and Prejudice

The Chalet School in Exile (I collect school stories)
The Bible
Bleak House

Jane Eyre . My favourite book of all time.

Pride and Prejudice. I have a beaten up old paperback and then daughter bought me a beautiful Folio Society copy for my 60th.

To kill a mocking bird
Jane Eyre
Little Women

Greenfinch

Jane Eyre . My favourite book of all time.

Snap.
Have read it several times. The reason I needed another copy was because the copy I bought in my teens had literally fallen apart.

All Jane Austen's ouvre, Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain. Most of Anthony Trollopes Barchester and Palliser series. Most of John Bucham's thrillers.

We had a holiday home in France for sometime and these were the books we had in both houses.

Off the top of my head...

Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
Plays 1 and 2 by Eugene Ionesco
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
The Oresteian Trilogy - Aeschylus
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb - Al Perkins

Probably lots of others...

Same here Babs03 DH has just bought a copy for my recent birthday. It has a lot of background information in it as well. He also bought Wuthering Heights which I have never owned.

Fresh water for flowers by Valerie Perrin.

The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho.

The camomile lawn by Mary Wesley.

Oh I love that there are Jane Eyre fans here. I know and love that book so much. Maybe we should start a separate thread! I am no bird and no net ensnares me!
I tend to have doubles of popular book club type books, i get them for christmas!

Scarlet and Black - Stendhal
Germinal - Émile Zola
In the Night Kitchen - Maurice Sendak
Outside Over There - Maurice Sendak
Mr Gumpy's Motor Car - John Birmingham
And various complete works of Shakespeare - as well as lots of individual folios of Shakespeare.
Several different collection of William Blake too.

I keep thinking of more and more that we have had 2 of!

Just remembered there's a box on the way out.
2 Alfred Jarry collections of Ubu plays...
And 2 Madame Bovarys - Flaubert.

Just having a massive book sort.
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Three copies of Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Can't remember how or why but have read each one

Two copies of Anne Franks Diary and two of Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

...Sadly

Had several copies of The Water Babies. Still have about 4 or 5 of favourite illustrated versions. Also have a couple of Russian writers Bilibin and Pushkin fairy tales also as much for the beautiful illustrations as the stories.....

Oh yes.
The Water Babies!

I seldom read a book more than once but this summer my son, dil and 2 g’dtrs (17 & 15) spent their annual holiday in Japan, including a couple of days in Kyoto. They came back fascinated by the geishas they saw there. I bought them ‘The Geishas of Gion’ a book I read years ago and couldn’t resist rereading it before I gave it to them. It was just as good the second time round. The girls loved it too.

Delia Smith’s complete cookery course - I wore the first one out!

I'm amazed this isn't a really busy thread.
Surely lots of us have had more than one copy of something over the years... even if it's only a Beatrix Potter (which we have also had multiple copies of).
It's really made me think about books and how you acquire them, why uou keep them and why you replace them.

I remember re-buying some Georgette Heyer for my daughter once from a charity shop - having given mine away some years before.

I have re-purchased lots of good children's books to read to grandchildren.
One grandchild still enjoys the "Church Mice" books with the rather verbose mice and somewhat "old" prose so I have repurchased the Christmas story.
One adult child couldn't remember a book they had enjoyed as a child so I bought "A pocket for Corduroy" and kept it for a while here (for general grandchildren use) before gifting it to her family.

The Water Babies, an unabridged copy and one in more up to date language. Alice in Wonderland. Wind in the Willows, I still have my childhood book, Jane Eyre, The Grapes of Wrath, Tess of the d'Ubervilles, To Kill a Mockingbird, Several Thesaurus, Dictionaries and a couple of French, Italian, Spanish Dictionaries/phrase books duplicated when we couldn't find the first one.

A room of one's own

Blake by Peter Ackroyd

The Bible

Yes forgot the Bible, several, given during childhood both of us and inherited from both sides on death of parents.

The Bible
All the Harry Potter Books (DH reads too slowly and I couldn’t wait)
Jane Eyre
Some ghost stories by Manning Coles (I had them originally by Francis Gaite, but they were falling to pieces. When I tried to replace them I discovered they were under a different author.)