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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 2 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Adventures of Tom Sawyer Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	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 Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Mark Twain, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th 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)
	Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by A. E. Jackson from Junior Deluxe Editions for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Windermere Readers #5 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Milo Winter 1954 edition from Rand McNally for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Windermere Series 1 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Windermere Series 2 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Windermere Series 3 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Windermere Series 4 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Milo Winter 1938 printing from Rand McNally for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel from Grosset & Dunlap for 5th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel from Grosset & Dunlap for 5th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-7th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel from Easton Press for 6th-10th grade in Leather Bound Collectible Books (Location: VIN-LEA)
	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel from Macmillan Fantasy for 7th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $18.00 (1 in stock)
	Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 1st edition 1st printing from HarperCollins Family Stories for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, notes by Frederick Houk Law 2nd School Edition from Globe Book Company Family Stories for 4th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Doctor Dolittle's Post Office by Hugh Lofting from Mayflower Books for 3rd-7th grade 1923 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Doctor Dolittle's Zoo Doctor Dolittle #6 by Hugh Lofting 1967^th edition from Mayflower Books for 3rd-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, illustrated by R. M. Powers from World Publishing Company for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Gulliver's Travels (abridged) Revised and Slightly Abridged for Readers of Our Time Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Jonathan Swift, illustrated by Aldren Watson from Grosset & Dunlap for 6th-9th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Ruth Ives from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Men by Louisa May Alcott from Grosset & Dunlap in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Little Men Rainbow Classics by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Hilda van Stockum from World Publishing Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Merry Maker Young Folks Library by Joel Chandler Harris, ed. from Auxiliary Educational League for 4th-7th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Noodles, Nitwits, and Numbskulls by Maria Leach, illustrated by Kurt Werth 1971 printing from World Publishing Company for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $19.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Peterkin Papers Junior Deluxe Editions by Lucretia P. Hale, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats from Junior Deluxe Editions for 4th-8th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, illustrated by Roberta Moynihan from Junior Deluxe Editions for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll from Junior Deluxe Editions for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain from Heritage Press for 4th-9th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - 2 Volume Set by Mark Twain from Heritage Press for 4th-9th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
	Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Hugh Lofting, illustrated by Sonja Lamut from Grosset & Dunlap Animal Fantasy for 3rd-7th grade 1923 Newbery Medal winner in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting from Mayflower Books for 3rd-7th grade 1923 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Wind in the Willows Thrushwood Book by Kenneth Grahame from Grosset & Dunlap Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Wind in the Willows Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Dick Cuffari from Grosset & Dunlap Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard from Charles Scribner's Sons Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by David Stone from Golden Press Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Wind in the Willows Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Dick Cuffari from Grosset & Dunlap Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Tasha Tudor from Collins Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Wind in the Willows Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Dick Cuffari from Grosset & Dunlap Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-IJL)
	Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, abridged and illustrated by John Worsley from Lemon Tree Press Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Wind in the Willows Junior Deluxe Editions by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Tasha Tudor Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Wind in the Willows Willow Leaf Library by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard from Charles Scribner's Sons Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)

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