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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.

	Adventures of Pinocchio Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Carlo Collodi, translated by M.A. Murray and illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-8th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Adventures of Pinocchio Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Carlo Collodi, translated by M.A. Murray and illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Adventures of Pinocchio Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Carlo Collodi, translated by M.A. Murray and illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Adventures of Pinocchio Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Carlo Collodi, translated by M.A. Murray and illustrated by ?? from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-8th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Adventures of Pinocchio Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Carlo Collodi, translated by M.A. Murray and illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Aesop's Fables Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Aesop, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap Fables for 2nd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Aesop's Fables Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Aesop, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap for Nursery-2nd grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Aesop's Fables Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Aesop, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap for 2nd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Aesop's Fables Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Aesop, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap for 2nd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Aesop's Fables Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Aesop, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap Fables for 2nd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 Paperback by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Arabian Nights Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Earle Goodenow, illustrator from Grosset & Dunlap Eastern Fairy Tales for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Arabian Nights Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Earle Goodenow, illustrator from Grosset & Dunlap Eastern Fairy Tales for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Arabian Nights Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Earle Goodenow, illustrator from Grosset & Dunlap Eastern Fairy Tales for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Arabian Nights Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Earle Goodenow, illustrator from Grosset & Dunlap Eastern Fairy Tales for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Arabian Nights Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Earle Goodenow, illustrator from Grosset & Dunlap Eastern Fairy Tales for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Grimms' Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folklore for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Grimms' Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folklore for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Grimms' Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folklore for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Grimms' Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folklore for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Grimms' Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folklore for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Sir Thomas Malory, edited by Sidney Lanier and illustrated by Florian from Grosset & Dunlap British Fairy Tales/Prose Epic for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $12.50 (1 in stock)
	King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Sir Thomas Malory, edited by Sidney Lanier and illustrated by Florian from Grosset & Dunlap British Fairy Tales/Prose Epic for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Sir Thomas Malory, edited by Sidney Lanier and illustrated by Florian from Grosset & Dunlap British Fairy Tales/Prose Epic for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Sir Thomas Malory, edited by Sidney Lanier and illustrated by Florian from Grosset & Dunlap British Fairy Tales/Prose Epic for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Washington Irving from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 5th-9th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Little Lame Prince and The Adventures of a Brownie Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illustrated by Lucille Corcos from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Little Lame Prince and The Adventures of a Brownie Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illustrated by Lucille Corcos from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Little Lame Prince and The Adventures of a Brownie Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illustrated by Lucille Corcos from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Little Lame Prince and The Adventures of a Brownie Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illustrated by Lucille Corcos from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Princess and the Goblin Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by George MacDonald from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-8th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)

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