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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
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Abe Lincoln's Other Mother
by Bernadine Bailey, illustrated by Howard Simon
from Responsive Environments Corp.
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
All About Our 50 States
All About Books #44
by Margaret Ronan, with drawings by William Meyerriecks and maps by Frank Ronan
from E.M. Hale and Company
for 3rd-8th grade
in All About Books (Location: VIN-ALL)
Amelia Earhart
Lives to Remember
by Burke Davis
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 7th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Benjamin Bonneville, Soldier-Explorer
from Julian Messner
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Beorn the Proud
by Madeleine Polland, Illustrated by William Stobbs
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Historical Fiction for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell, illustrated by William Steinel
from Golden Books
Realistic Animal Stories for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Black Fawn
by Jim Kjelgaard
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 4th-8th grade
in Animal Stories (Location: FIC-ANI)
Blowing-Wand
Land of the Free Series
by Elsie Reif Ziegler, illustrated by Jacob Landau
from John C. Winston
Historical fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
Booker T. Washington
by Shirley Graham
from Julian Messner
for 5th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Buffalo Chief
by Jane and Paul Annixter
from Hale-Cadmus
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Builders of the Old World
by Gertrude Hartman
Second Edition from D. C. Heath and Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
Calico Bush
by Rachel Field
Second Printing from Macmillan
Realistic Fiction for 5th-8th grade
1932 Newbery Honor Book
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Camels West
by James Ralph Johnson
from David McKay Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Caxton's Challenge
First American Edition from World Publishing Company
for 7th-10th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Cross and Crescent
by Richard Suskind, illustrated by Victor Lazzaro
1st edition from W. W. Norton and Co.
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Dark Venture
by Audrey White Beyer, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 7th-12th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Dobry
by Monica Shannon; illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff
15th printing 1967 from Viking Press
for 4th-8th grade
1935 Newbery Medal winner
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$20.00 (2 in stock)
Doorways to Discovery
Ginn Basic Readers
by David H. Russell, Mabel Snedaker and Doris Gates
from Ginn and Co.
for 7th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Doctor
Pioneer Books
by Ann McFerran, illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 6th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
by Donald J. Sobol; illustrated by Leonard Shortall
from Lodestar Books
for 3rd-7th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Landmark #66
by Slater Brown
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
First Steamboat on the Mississippi
North Star Books #31
by Sterling North
from Houghton Mifflin
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
From Stones to Skyscrapers
by Thea and Richard Bergere
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Gasoline Buggy of the Duryea Brothers
by Robert B. Jackson
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
George Washington: Man and Monument
by Frank Freidel and Lonnelle Aikman
from Washington National Monument Assoc.
for 6th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Glassmakers
Colonial American Craftsmen
by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-8th grade
in Colonial America (1690-1765) (Location: HISA-17COL)
Great Monster Hunt
by David C. Cooke & Yvonne Cooke
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 6th-8th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Hans Brinker
by Mary Mapes Dodge, illustrated by Fritz Kredel
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 4th-9th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Hans Brinker
Windermere Readers #7
by Mary Mapes Dodge, illustrated by Milo Winter
1954 Edition, 2nd printing from Rand McNally
for 4th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$10.00 (2 in stock)
Hans Brinker
Windermere Series 4
by Mary Mapes Dodge, illustrated by Milo Winter
1954 Edition, 2nd printing from Rand McNally
for 4th-9th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Henry Hudson
by Nina Brown Baker, illustrated by George Fulton
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 3rd-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$64.00 (1 in stock)
John and Sebastian Cabot
by Henry Ira Kurtz
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
John Paul Jones
by Donald E. Worcester, illustrated by Forrest Orr
from Houghton Mifflin
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
King's Beard
by Leonard Wibberley, illustrated by Christine Price
First Cadmus Edition 1965 from E.M. Hale and Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Landmark History of the American People Volume 2
Landmark Giant #21
by Daniel J. Boorstin
from Random House
for 4th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Life in Lincoln's America
Landmark Giant #8
by Helen Reeder Cross
Chanticleer Press Edition from Random House
for 6th-10th grade
in Landmark Giants (Location: VIN-LAN)
Makers of the Americas
by Marion Lansing
Second Edition from D. C. Heath and Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Marconi: Father of Radio
World in the Making
by David Gunston
from Crowell-Collier
for 6th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
by Elisabeth P. Myers
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 6th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Napoleon
by Manual Komroff
from Julian Messner
for 4th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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)
Queen Victoria
by Molly Costain Haycraft
from Julian Messner
for 6th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Queen's Most Honorable Pirate
by James Playsted Wood, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
from HarperCrest
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Raphael: Painter of the Renaissance
Immortals of Art
by Henry S. Gillette
from Franklin Watts
for 7th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Reading Roundup Book 2
by Paul Witty, Miriam E. Peterson, Alfred E. Parker
from California State Department of Education
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
San Domingo
by Marguerite Henry; illustrated by Robert Lougheed
from Rand McNally
for 3rd-7th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$9.60 (1 in stock)
Shropshire Lad
by A. E. Housman
from Franklin Watts
for 7th-12th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
South Fork Rangers
by Manly Wade Wellman
from Ives Washburn, Inc.
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Sticks, Spools and Feathers
by Harvey Weiss
from Young Scott Books
for 3rd-8th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
Story of Ancient Egypt
by Barbara Sewell
from Edward Arnold
for 4th-8th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Story of Coins
by Sam Rosenfeld
Revised Edition from Harvey House, Inc., Publishers
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
Swiss Family Robinson
Windermere Readers #9
by Johann Wyss, frontispiece by Milo Winter
1954 Edition from Rand McNally
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$10.00 (2 in stock)
Swiss Family Robinson
Windermere Series 1
by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead
from Rand McNally
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Swiss Family Robinson
Windermere Series 2
by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead
1921 Printing from Rand McNally
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Swiss Family Robinson
Windermere Series 3
by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead
from Rand McNally
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Swiss Family Robinson
Windermere Series 4
by Johann Wyss, translated by W.H.G. Kingston, and illustrated by T.H. Robinson, Milo Winter, and Louis Rhead
from Rand McNally
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
They Put Out to Sea: The Story of the Map
by Roger Duvoisin
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$68.00 (1 in stock)
True Story of Albert Einstein
by Ruth L. Oldfield
from Children's Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric Kelly, illustrated by Angela Pruszynska
1965 Printing from Macmillan
for 6th-9th grade
1929 Newbery Medal winner
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Wilderness Wife
by Etta B. Degering, illustrated by Ursula Koering
from David McKay Company
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$35.00 (1 in stock)
William Bradford of Plymouth Colony
by W.J. Jacobs
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Witch's Daughter
by Nina Bawden
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for 6th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Wonders of the Weather
by Tex Antoine
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Yellow Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang, editor
from McGraw-Hill
Fairy Tales for 3rd-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$38.00 (1 in stock)
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