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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.

	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 by Aesop, illustrated by W. Kirtman Plummer 1970 printing from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-3rd grade in Companion Library (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Aladdin by Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by Pablo Ramirez from Bobbs-Merril Co for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Atlantic Treasury of Childhood Stories by Mary D. Huchinson Hodgkins (selector and editor), illustrated by Beatrice Stevens from Atlantic Monthly Press for 1st-5th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $16.00 (1 in stock)
	Boll Weevil by Glen Rounds from Golden Gate Junior Books for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Book of Famous Fairy Tales Young Folks Library from Auxiliary Educational League for 1st-6th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Cat and the Devil by James Joyce, illustrated by Richard Erdoes from E.M. Hale and Company for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $38.00 (1 in stock)
	Crane Maiden by Miyoko Matsutani, illustrated by Chihiro Iwasaki from Parents Magazine Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Curious Critters by Patricia Lauber, illustrated by Don Madden from Garrard Publishing Company for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $36.00 (1 in stock)
	East of the Sun and West of the Moon by P. C. Asbjornsen & Jorgen E. Moe, illustrated by Tom Vroman from Macmillan for 1st-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $16.00 (1 in stock)
	ECL: Sleeping Beauty and other Tales and other Classic French Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Wayne Brown from Classic Press for 1st-6th grade in Educator Classic Library (Location: VIN-ECL)
	Elves and the Shoemaker Tip-Top Elf Book by Illustrated by Manning De V. Lee from Rand McNally for Nursery-1st grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Emperor and the Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Bill Sokol from Pantheon Books for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Fireside Stories by Veronica S. Hutchinson from Minton, Balch & CO. for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Clearance: Fiction (Location: ZCLE-FIC)
	First Book of Tales of Ancient Araby First Books by Charles Mozley from Franklin Watts for 1st-4th grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Giant John by Arnold Lobel Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. from Harper & Row for Nursery-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Gingerbread Boy by Watty Piper, illustrated by Eulalie from Platt and Munk Publishers for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends by Anne Terry White; illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen from Golden Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Jiri Trnka 5th Impression, 1965 from Paul Hamlyn for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Hungry Leprechaun by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin from William Morrow & Company for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Indian Sleep-Man Tales by Bernice Anderson, illustrated by Sears Frank from Bramhall House for 1st-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Jack the Giant Killer by Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by Pablo Ramirez from Bobbs-Merril Co for 1st-4th grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Lucky and the Giant by Benjamin Elkin, illustrated by Katherine Evans from Children's Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Ma Lien and the Magic Brush by Hisako Kimishima, illustrated by Kei Wakana, retold by Alvin Tresselt from Parents Magazine Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Master of all Masters by Marcia Sewall, illustrator from Little, Brown & Company for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $18.00 (1 in stock)
	Mazel and Shimazel Or the Milk of a Lioness by Isaac Bashevis Singer from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $30.00 (1 in stock)
	Monsters of the Middle Ages by William Wise, illustrated by Tomie de Paola from G.P. Putnam's Sons for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Moon Singer by Clyde Robert Bulla from Thomas Crowell Fairy Tales & Fables for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Ogre and His Bride by Nami Kishi, retold by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Shosuke Fukuda from Parents Magazine Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Our Lady of Guadalupe by Helen Rand Parish, illustrated by Jean Charlot 1964 Printing from Viking Press for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Pecos Bill and the Mustang by Harold Felton, illustrated by Leonard Shortall from Prentice Hall American Tall Tale for 1st-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Peter and the Rabbits by Arthur Kubler, translated by Roseanna Hoover First US Edition from Atheneum for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Peter Bull An Old Danish Tale by Helen Oechsli, illustrated by Kelly Oechsli from Viking Press Danish Folk Tale for 1st-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Read Me Another Fairy Tale by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Wallace Tripp from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-5th grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Shoemaker and the Elves by The Brothers Grimm, translated by Wayne Andrews, illustrated by Adrienne Adams from Charles Scribner's Sons for Nursery-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Sooner Hound A Tale from American Folklore by Harvey Weiss from G.P. Putnam's Sons for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Dick Whittington and His Cat by Muriel Levy, illustrated by Evelyn Bowman Ninth Edition from Wills & Hepworth for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Sun Princess and Her Deliverer A Lithuanian Folk Tale by Irina Zheleznova (translator), illustrated by A. Makunaite from Progress Publishers for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Tales Told in Holland by Olive Beaupre Miller, Illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham from Book House for Children for 1st-6th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $18.00 (2 in stock)
	Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book by Gustaf Tenggren, adapted by Katharine Gibson from Little, Brown & Company for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Three Gay Tales from Grimm by Wanda Gag from E.M. Hale and Company for 1st-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Treasury of Nursery Rhymes / Tom Thumb and Other Favorites by Unknown, illustrated by Charles Robinson & L. Leslie Brooke from Grolier Publishing for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Two Brothers by Eugene Schwarz, illustrated by Gabriel Lisowski, translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood from Harper & Row for 1st-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	When the Mississippi Was Wild by LeGrand Henderson from E.M. Hale and Company for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	White Deer A Latvian Folk-Tale by Fainna Solasko (translator), illustrated by Nikolai Kochergin from Progress Publishers for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Why Cowboys Sing, In Texas by LeGrand Henderson from Abingdon Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)

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