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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 Jimmy Skunk by Thornton W. Burgess, illustrated by Harrison Cady 1920 Printing from Little, Brown & Company for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $16.00 (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 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)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, retold by Anne Terry White, illustrated by Helen Siegl from California State Department of Education for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Animal Heroes by Ernest Lloyd from Pacific Press for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Animal Stories Tales of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats from Junior Deluxe Editions for 2nd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Babar's Picnic by Laurent de Brunhoff, translated by Merle Haas from Random House for Nursery-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $32.00 (1 in stock)
	Bear Circus for Our Friends the Kangaroos Bears of Koala Park and William Pene du Bois Present by William Pene du Bois from Viking Press for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Best Friends for Frances by Russell & Lillian Hoban from HarperCollins Animal Fantasy for 1st-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Blaze Finds the Trail by C. W. Anderson from Macmillan for 1st-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Bounce and the Bunnies by Ruth Carroll 2^nd edition from Henry Z. Walck, Inc. for 1st-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Brave Davy Coon by Laurence Hyde from Harper & Brothers for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	By Pond and River Eyes and No Eyes #2 by Arabella B. Buckley from Cassell for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ) $25.00 (1 in stock)
	Church Mice Spread Their Wings by Graham Oakley from Atheneum for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Coppertop by Bob Hunt, illustrated by Jeanne Manget from Coward McCann for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Dear Friends by Zhenya Gay from Harper & Brothers for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Donkey-Donkey from Grosset & Dunlap in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Elf Owl by Mary & Conrad Buff 3rd Printing from Viking Press for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Gabriel Churchkitten by Margot Austin from E.P. Dutton & Co. for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	George and Martha Encore by James Marshall from Houghton Mifflin for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Good Neighbors by Diane Redfield Massie from American Education Publications for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $11.00 (2 in stock)
	Gorilla Baby The Story of Patty Cake by Pearl Wolf from Scholastic Book Services for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Great Big Elephant & the Very Small Elephant by Barbara Seuling from Crown Publishers for Preschool-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Great Corgiville Kidnapping by Tasha Tudor from Little, Brown & Company for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham from Harper & Row for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Harvey's Hideout by Russell & Lillian Hoban from Parents Magazine Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Junket by Anne H. White, illustrated by Robert McCloskey 2nd printing from Viking Press for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Katy No-Pocket by Emmy Payne, illustrated by H. A. Rey from Weekly Reader Animal Fantasy for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Lassie Come-Home G&D Famous Dog Stories by Eric Knight from Grosset & Dunlap for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Dog Lost Weekly Reader by René Guillot, illustrated by Wallace Tripp from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books for 2nd-4th grade in Animal Stories (Location: FIC-ANI)
	Margot Austin's Churchmouse Stories Peter Churchmouse, Gabriel Churchkitten, Trumpet, Gabriel and the Moths, The Three Silly Kittens by Margot Austin from E.P. Dutton & Co. for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Mishmash by Molly Cone, illustrated by Leonard Shortall 3rd printing from Houghton Mifflin for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	More About Paddington by Michael Bond from Houghton Mifflin for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Muggins' Big Balloon by Marjorie Barrows, illustrated by Anne Sellers Leaf from Rand McNally for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Mystery of the Magic Meadow by Margaret Friskey, Illustrated by Frances Eckart from Children's Press for Nursery-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg from Little, Brown & Company Realistic Animal Stories for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Paddington Abroad by Michael Bond, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum Book Club Edition from Houghton Mifflin for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Paddington's Garden A Paddington Picture Book by Michael Bond, illustrated by Fred Banbery from Random House Animal Fantasy for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Peter Churchmouse by Margot Austin 1958 Printing from E.P. Dutton & Co. for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Roly, the Railroad Mouse by Ruth Ainsworth, illustrated by Jean Winslow from Franklin Watts for 2nd-3rd grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins from Macmillan for Nursery-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Louis Darling from Morrow Junior Books for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Ski Pup by Don Freeman from Viking Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Small One by Zhenya Gay from Viking Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Tales of Mr. Pengachoosa by Caroline Rush, illustrated by Dominique M. Strandquest First Edition from Crown Publishers for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Thy Friend, Obadiah (hardcover) by Brinton Turkle 1972 Seafarer Edition from Viking Press Realistic Animal Stories for Kindergarten-3rd grade 1970 Caldecott Honor Book in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Toby Tyler or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis from Grosset & Dunlap for 2nd-5th grade in Companion Library (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Two Hundred Rabbits by Lonzo Anderson and Adrienne Adams from Viking Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Uncle Wiggily and His Friends by Howard Garis from Grosset & Dunlap for Preschool-3rd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard 1961 Redesigned from E.P. Dutton & Co. Poetry for Kindergarten-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Where's Wallace Story and Panoramas by Hilary Knight from Harper & Row for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Wilfred the Rat by James Stevenson from Greenwillow Books for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne from Dutton Children's Books for Kindergarten-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Winnie-the-Pooh: A Tight Squeeze by A. A. Milne, illustrated by The Walt Disney Studio, adapted by Al White 1974 printing from Golden Books for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)

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