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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 Huckleberry Finn Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 Paperback by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay 1987 Printing from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Adventures of Tom Sawyer Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Adventures of Tom Sawyer Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, illustrated by Worth Brehm from Harper & Brothers Realistic Fiction for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Beloved Bondage by Elizabeth Yates from People's Book Club for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader, illustrated by Edward Shenton from Harcourt, Brace & Company for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Call of the Wild G&D Famous Dog Stories by Jack London from Grosset & Dunlap for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Captains Courageous Junior Deluxe Editions by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 5th-10th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage, introduction by Richard Aldington, illustrations by Rene ben Sussan from Heritage Press for 10th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Freckles Junior Deluxe Editions by Gene Stratton-Porter, illustrated by Elizabeth Hewlett Capeheart from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 3rd printing from Viking Press for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $24.00 (1 in stock)
	Half-Crown House by Helen Ashton Book Club Edition from Dodd, Mead & Co. for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (2 in stock)
	Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter from Grosset & Dunlap for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter from Grosset & Dunlap for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Hot Rod by Henry Gregor Felsen from E.P. Dutton & Co. for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven Book Club from Doubleday & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Jane Eyre Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Charlotte Bronte from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Romantic Fiction for 8th-12th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg from Random House Realistic Romantic Fiction for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Jane Eyre Rainbow Classics by Charlotte Bronte, illustrated by Nell Booker from World Publishing Company Realistic Romantic Fiction for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights - 2 Volume Set by Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg from Random House Realistic Romantic Fiction for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Kitty's Class Day by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap for 5th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Women by Lousia May Alcott, illustrated by Harve Stein from Garden City Books Realistic Romantic Fiction for 9th-Adult 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)
	Lulu's Library by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap 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)
	Mrs. Appleyard and I by Louise Andrews Kent from Houghton Mifflin for 10th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier from Doubleday & Company Mystery/Suspense for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Peculiar Magic by Annabel and Edgar Johnson, illustrated by Lynd Ward from Houghton Mifflin for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Penrod by Booth Tarkington, illustrated by Gordon Grant from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 7th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Penrod and Sam Junior Deluxe Editions by Booth Tarkington, illustrated by Gordon Grant from Grosset & Dunlap for 5th-10th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Potlatch Family by Evelyn Sibley Lampman 1^st edition from Atheneum for 6th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Pride and Prejudice Rainbow Classics by Jane Austen, illustrated by Edgard Cirlin from World Publishing Company Romantic Realistic Fiction for 8th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Ramona by Helen Jackson from Little, Brown & Company for 9th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright; illustrated by F. Graham Cootes from A. L. Burt Company for 9th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Silver Pitchers by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap for 5th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, illustrated by Eros Keith from Bradbury Press Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade 1974 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (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)
	Song of the Pines A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin Land of the Free Series by Walter & Marion Havighurst, illustrated by Richard Floethe 1^st edition from John C. Winston Historical fiction for 6th-10th grade 1950 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss from Federal Book Company Femininity/Realistic Fiction for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Strawberry Point Vignettes of an Iowa Childhood by Florence Roe Wiggins from T.S. Denison & Company for 7th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Tale of Two Cities Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni from Grosset & Dunlap Victorian Novel for 9th-Adult in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Tale of Two Cities Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni from Grosset & Dunlap Victorian Novel for 9th-Adult in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Tale of Two Cities Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni from Grosset & Dunlap Victorian Novel for 9th-Adult in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Tale of Two Cities Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni from Grosset & Dunlap Victorian Novel for 9th-Adult in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens from Parents Magazine Press for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes from New York Publishing Company for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Tontine Volume I by Thomas B. Costain from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Yankee Lawyer The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train from Consolidated Book Publishers for 10th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)

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