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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.
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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)
America America America
by Kenneth Seeman Giniger (Editor), Illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Franklin Watts
for 3rd-Adult
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
American Indian in Words and Pictures
by Sydney Fletcher
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Animals Nobody Knows
by Ivan Sanderson
from Viking Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$35.00 (1 in stock)
Apache Gold
by Joseph A. Altsheler
from Appleton-Century-Crofts
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Battle of Lake Erie
North Star Books #23
by F. Van Wyck Mason, illustrated by Victor Mays
from Houghton Mifflin
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Benjamin Franklin
Lives to Remember
by Robin McKown
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Bob, Son of Battle
by Alfred Ollivant
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Animal Stories (Location: FIC-ANI)
Boys' Book of Model Railroading
by Raymond F. Yates
from Harper & Brothers
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Boys' Life Book of World War II Stories
by Editors of Boys' Life, illustrated by Leonard Slonevsky
from Random House
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
Camel Express
Winston Adventure Books
by Olive Burt, illustrated by Joseph C. Camana
First Edition from John C. Winston
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Columbus
from William Morrow & Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Creatures of the Night
by Dorothy Sterling, illustrated by Winifred Lubell
from Doubleday & Company
for 3rd-5th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
Danny Dunn and the Automatic House
by Jay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin; illustrated by Owen Kampen
from McGraw-Hill
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave
by Jay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin, Illustrated by Brinton Turkle
from McGraw-Hill
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Danny Dunn and the Voice from Space
by Jay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin, Illustrated by Leo Summers
from McGraw-Hill
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor
by Jay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin; illustrated by Brinton Turkle
from McGraw-Hill
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Dark and Bloody Ground
by Phyllis R. Fenner, ed.
from William Morrow & Company
for 4th-7th grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Dobie Sturgis and the Dog Soldiers
by Carl G. Hodges
First Edition from Bobbs-Merril Co
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Exploring Mars
by Roy A. Gallant, illustrated by Lowell Hess
from Garden City Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
First Book of Stones
by M. B. Cormack, illustrated by M. K. Scott
from Franklin Watts
for 3rd-5th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
Flatboats and Wagon Wheels
by Mildred Houghton Comfort, illustrated by Dirk Gringhuis
from Beckley-Cardy Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Fog Magic
Puffin Newbery Library
by Julia L. Sauer, illustrated by Lynd Ward
2nd printing 1944 from Macmillan
for 4th-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends
by Opal Wheeler & Sybil Deucher, illustrated by Mary Greenwalt
1943 Printing from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Frogs and Polliwogs
by Dorothy Hogner, illustrated by Nils Hogner
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
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)
Have You Seen Tom Thumb?
by Mabel Leigh Hunt, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
1943 Newbery Honor Book
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Hercules and Other Tales from Greek Myths
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by David Lockhart
from Scholastic Inc.
Greek Mythology for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Illustrated Book of Knights
by Jack Coggins
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
In the Hands of the Senecas
by Walter D. Edmonds
from Little, Brown & Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$4.00 (2 in stock)
Insects in their World
by Su Zan N. Swain
from Garden City Books
for 3rd-5th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
Jennie Lee, Patriot
by Anne Emery
from Westminster Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$24.00 (1 in stock)
King of the Golden River
Rainbow Classics
by John Ruskin, illustrator
from World Publishing Company
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Knights and Castles and Feudal Life
by Walter Buehr
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People
by Stewart H. Holbrook
First Ediition from Macmillan
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Loner
by Ester Wier, Illustrated by Christine Price
from David McKay Company
for 4th-6th grade
1964 Newbery Honor Book
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Makon and the Dauphin
by Nan Hayden Agle, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
from Charles Scribner's Sons
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Miki and Mary
by Maud & Miska Petersham
from Hale-Cadmus
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Miranda and the Cat
by Linell Smith; illustrated by Peggy Bacon
from Little, Brown & Company
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
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)
Mosquitoes in the Big Ditch
Winston Adventure Books
by Roger Burlingame; illustrated by Helen Tee-Van
from John C. Winston
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Mountains and Valleys
Adventure in Geography
by Shirley Carpenter, Marie Neurath, Stewart Irwin
from Hanover House
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Myrtle Albertina's Secret
by Lillian Pohlmann, illustrated by Erik Blegvad
2nd Impression from Coward McCann
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Nobody Plays with a Cabbage
by Meindert DeJong; illustrated by Thomas B. Allen
from Harper & Row
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$22.00 (1 in stock)
Nootka
by Michael Hyde
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Nose for Trouble
by Jim Kjelgaard
2nd Printing from Holiday House
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Oh Susannah
by Ruth and Richard Holberg
from Doubleday & Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Powder Keg
by Donald E. Cooke
First Edition from John C. Winston
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Prairie Schooners West
by Mildred Houghton Comfort, illustrated by Dirk Gringhuis
from Beckley-Cardy Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Pumpkin Flood at Harpers Ferry
by Lila Gravatt Scrimsher, illustrated by William M. Hutchinson
from Reilly & Lee Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff
by Opal Wheeler, illustrated by Christine Price
1963 Fifth Printing from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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)
Seeing Fingers
by Etta DeGering, illustrated by Emil Weiss
from David McKay Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$5.00 (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)
Silence Over Dunkerque
by John R. Tunis
from William Morrow & Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Silver Strike
by William T. Stoll and H.W. Whicker
from Little, Brown & Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Sky Above Us
by Bertha Morris Parker
from Row, Peterson and Company
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Small Creatures in My Garden
by Christopher Reynolds
1966 First American Printing from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Sophie of the Lazy B
by Myra Richardson, illustrated by Nicholas Panesis
Stated First Edition from Robert M. McBride & Co.
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$30.00 (1 in stock)
Steamboat South
by Madye Lee Chastain
from E.M. Hale and Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Story of Oregon
by Oscar Lewis, illustrated by John N. Barron
from Garden City Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$20.00 (1 in stock)
Sue Barton, Rural Nurse
Sue Barton #04
by Helen Dore Boylston
from Little, Brown & Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Ten Brave Men
by Sonia Daugherty, Illustrates by James Daugherty
from Lippincott
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Ten Leagues to Boston Town
by Dorothy Gilman Butters
from Macrae-Smith Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$40.00 (1 in stock)
This is the United Nations
by Miroslav Sasek
1st edition from Macmillan
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$75.00 (1 in stock)
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)
Tom's Midnight Garden
by Philippa Pearce, illustrated by Susan Einzig
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for 4th-8th grade
1958 Carnegie Medal
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Trains at Work
by Mary Elting, illustrated by David Lyle Millard
from Garden City Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Wild Dog of Edmonton
by David Grew, illustrated by Ellen Segner
from Reynal & Hitchcock
for 4th-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Wilderness Champion
by Joseph Wharton Lippincott, illustrated by Paul Bransom
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Zoo Pets
by William Bridges
from William Morrow & Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
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