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I've always found the below introduction amusing and am loathe to get rid of it, but it doesn't really tell you our goal of this category. You'll notice many of these books are not in-stock. It's unlikely we'll ever have very many at a time, but we're building it with the intention of helping you find the information you need to collect these series and volumes. We plan to continue adding more titles primarily from the 1960s and before, pictures, copyright dates, illustrators, ISBNs (if they exist), and more, to help you track down these awesome books from the past. If you like this section and want more, we'd like to commend the Facebook group Reshelving Alexandria, where you'll find a community of people passionate about books like these!

To see ONLY books that are actually available, use the filter below to look for in-stock books!

For some, book collecting is like African big game hunting—taking down the animal is pretty satisfying, but the real excitement is in tracking the beast, following it for hours or even days, picking up sign as it melts into the horizon until finally you get it in your sights. Eli is that kind of book collector. It's the thrill of the chase that drives him; once he completes a set or finds a particular volume it's a bit of a letdown.

That's not to say Eli doesn't love books (he owns a bookstore, after all). It's just that collecting them is something different altogether from owning or reading them, something almost primitive and instinctual, drawing on skills that lie dormant in most of us. The book collector's skills are the same that help a man on safari smell his prey in an old footprint or see a clump of fur caught in the bark of a palm tree or simply see the animal in the distance.

These aren't just any kind of books we're talking about collecting. Anyone can procure each volume of their favorite new fiction, or each year's New York Times bestsellers. They're everywhere, and they don't take much effort to find. The kind of books collectors go for (especially collectors like Eli) are hard or next to impossible to find, typically old, and just plain cool.

Exactly the kind of books we've put in this category, in fact. "Vintage & Collectible" isn't just some goofy title we came up with to generate interest; although most of these books are not technically "rare," and only occasionally expensive, they aren't at every street corner bookshop and they're typically titles appealing to a very specific readership (or ownership, if we're going to be entirely accurate). There's plenty here that the more average library compilers among us will find interesting.

As you scan the titles below, imagine you're in some mahogany-lined old bookstore in an old city and that a whispy-haired old man can tell you the history of each volume in his collection. Or just look for the book you're after, it might be there. Whatever you do, give these books a good home and help us perpetuate one of the most exciting and underappreciated sports in the world.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

	All-of-a-Kind Family All-of-a-Kind Family Series #1 by Sydney Taylor, illustrated by Helen John from Follett Family Stories for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $16.00 (1 in stock)
	All-of-a-Kind Family All-of-a-Kind Family Series #1 by Sydney Taylor, illustrated by Helen John from Follett Family Stories for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown All-of-a-Kind Family Series #4 by Sydney Taylor; illustrated by Mary Stevens from Follett Publishing Co. Family Stories for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $34.00 (1 in stock)
	B Is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood from Harcourt, Brace & World for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Bobbsey Twins #08 Bobbsey Twins' Big Adventure at Home, 1960 by Laura Lee Hope from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-4th grade in Bobbsey Twins (Location: VIN-SER)
	Bobbsey Twins #08 (tweed) Bobbsey Twins at Home by Laura Lee Hope from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-4th grade in Bobbsey Twins (Location: VIN-SER)
	Bobbsey Twins at Home by Laura Lee Hope from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-4th grade in Bobbsey Twins (Location: VIN-SER) $4.50 (1 in stock)
	Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope Undated from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-4th grade in Bobbsey Twins (Location: VIN-SER) $4.50 (1 in stock)
	Cathie Stuart by Nora Tully MacAlvay 1958 2nd Printing from Viking Press for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 1st edition 1st printing from HarperCollins Family Stories for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, notes by Frederick Houk Law 2nd School Edition from Globe Book Company Family Stories for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Dobry by Monica Shannon; illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff 15th printing 1967 from Viking Press for 4th-8th grade 1935 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $20.00 (2 in stock)
	Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson from Harper & Row for 4th-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	First Four Years (Pictorial Cover) by Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams from Harper & Row for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Five Little Peppers & How They Grew Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Margaret Sidney from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Five Little Peppers & How They Grew Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Margaret Sidney, illustrated by William Sharp from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Junior Deluxe Editions by Margaret Sidney, illustrated by Barbara Cooney from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Margaret Sidney from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Margaret Sidney from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Rainbow Classics by Margaret Sidney from World Publishing Company for 3rd-7th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney, illustrated by Anna Marie Magagna 1962, Second Printing from Macmillan for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Five Little Peppers Grown Up Five Little Peppers #4 by Margaret Sidney from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books Family Stories for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Five Little Peppers Midway Five Little Peppers #2 by Margaret Sidney, Illustrated by Norma Garris from Whitman Publishing Company Family Stories for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Five Little Peppers Phronsie Pepper Five Little Peppers #4 by Margaret Sidney from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books Family Stories for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage & Collectible (Location: VIN-COL)
	Gift from the Mikado by Elizabeth P. Fleming from Westminster John Knox Press for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes from Harcourt, Brace & World for 4th-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes from Harcourt, Brace & World for 4th-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Happy Little Family Fairchild Family Series #1 by Rebecca Caudill 1^st edition from Holt, Rinehart and Winston for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Happy Little Family Fairchild Family Series #1 by Rebecca Caudill, illustrated by Decie Merwin 1^st edition from Holt, Rinehart and Winston for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi by Johanna Spyri, illustrated by Frances Brundage 1930s? from Saalfield Publishing Co. for 3rd-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi Macmillan Classics by Johanna Spyri, illustrated by Greta Elgaard from Macmillan for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi by Johanna Spyri, translated by Louise Brooks and illustrated by Roberta MacDonald from Junior Deluxe Editions for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi by Johanna Spyri, translated by Marian Edwardes and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham from Junior Deluxe Editions for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi A Story for Children and Those Who Love Children Windermere Series 4 by Johanna Spyri, translated by Philip Schuyler Allen and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright 1938 edition from Rand McNally for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi A Story for Children and Those Who Love Children Rainbow Classics by Johanna Spyri, translated by Marian Edwards and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard 1st Printing from World Publishing Company for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Heidi by Johanna Spyri, translated by Marian Edwardes with uncredited illustrator from J. G. Ferguson Publishing Co. for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi A Story for Children and Those Who Love Children Windermere Readers #3 by Johanna Spyri, translated by Philip Schuyler Allen and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright 1954 Edition from Rand McNally for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Heidi A Story for Children and Those Who Love Children Windermere Series 3 by Johanna Spyri, translated by Philip Schuyler Allen and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright 1938 edition from Rand McNally for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi Grows Up Thrushwood Book by Charles Tritten from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi Grows Up by Johanna Spyri from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi Grows Up A Sequel to Heidi by Charles Tritten, illustrated Jean Coquillot from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Heidi's Children A Thrushwood Book by Charles Tritten from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Beatrice Stevens from Little, Brown & Company for 5th-9th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Jo's Boys Junior Deluxe Editions by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Ruth Ives from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 5th-9th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Kid Brother by Jerrold Beim, illustrated by Tracy Sugarman from Morrow Eagle for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Little House on the Prairie (pictorial hardcover) Little House Series #2 by Laura Ingalls Wilder from HarperCollins Realistic Fiction/Pioneers for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Lord Fauntleroy Junior Deluxe Editions by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Peter Spier from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Little Maverick Cow from Charles Scribner's Sons for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Little Men Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Little Men Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Ruth Ives from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Men Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Little Men by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Men Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Little Men Rainbow Classics by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Hilda van Stockum from World Publishing Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Town on the Prairie (Pictorial Cover) Little House Series #7 by Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams from HarperCollins Realistic Fiction/Pioneers for 3rd-8th grade 1942 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Women Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Louis Jambor from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Little Women Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Louis Jambor from Grosset & Dunlap Romantic Realistic Fiction for 4th-9th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Little Women Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Louis Jambor from Grosset & Dunlap Romantic Realistic Fiction for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Hilda Van Stockum Centennial Edition from World Publishing Company for 5th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Mama's Way by Thyra Ferre Bjorn from Rinehart & Company, Inc. for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Mary Poppins from A to Z by P. L. Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard from Harcourt, Brace & World for 4th-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	More All-of-a-Kind Family All-of-a-Kind Family Series #3 by Sydney Taylor; illustrated by Mary Stevens from Follett Publishing Co. Family Stories for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $34.00 (1 in stock)
	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice, illustrated by Norma and Dan Garris from Whitman Publishing Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Pollyanna's Debt of Honor by Harriet Lummis Smith from L. C. Page & Company for 4th-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Pollyanna's Golden Horseshoe by Elizabeth Borton from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Ranch under the Rimrock by Dorothy Lawson McCall from Binford & Mort Publishing for 8th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Sergeant Finney's Family by Carol Farley, illustrated by Leonard Shortall for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Seven Sunflower Seeds by John Verney from Holt, Rinehart and Winston for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $20.00 (1 in stock)
	Shirley Temple Edition of Captain January & The Little Colonel by Laura E. Richards and Annie Fellows Johnston from Random House for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Son of a Hundred Kings A Novel of the Nineties by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 7th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Swiss Family Robinson Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston and illustrated by Lynd Ward from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Stories/Adventure for 5th-9th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Swiss Family Robinson Rainbow Classics by Johann David Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston and illustrated by Jeanne Edwards from World Publishing Company for 5th-9th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Swiss Family Robinson Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston and illustrated by Lynd Ward from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-9th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Swiss Family Robinson Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston and illustrated by Lynd Ward from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-9th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Swiss Family Robinson Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston and illustrated by Lynd Ward from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Stories/Adventure for 5th-9th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Swiss Family Robinson Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston and illustrated by Lynd Ward from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-9th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss, illustrated by David Gentleman from Heritage Press for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss ca 1920 from Hurst Publishing for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss, translated by David Clarke and illustrated by Charles Folkard from J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Swiss Family Robinson Windermere Readers #9 by Johann Wyss, frontispiece by Milo Winter 1954 Edition from Rand McNally for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (2 in stock)
	Swiss Family Robinson Windermere Series 1 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead from Rand McNally for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Swiss Family Robinson Windermere Series 2 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead 1921 Printing from Rand McNally for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Swiss Family Robinson Windermere Series 3 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead from Rand McNally for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Swiss Family Robinson Windermere Series 4 by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead from Rand McNally for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Terrible, Horrible Edie by E. C. Spykman from Harcourt, Brace & World for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Three Boys and a Lighthouse by Nan Hayden Agle and Ellen Wilson, Illustrated by Marian Honigman from Charles Scribner's Sons for 1st-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Tick-a Tock-a Clock by Ellen Sue Klose from Review and Herald Publishing Association for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Ruth Ives from Garden City Books for 4th-8th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Understood Betsy Thrushwood Book by Dorothy Canfield Fisher from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	While Mrs. Coverlet Was Away by Mary Nash from Little, Brown & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)

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