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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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ABC Around Green Hills
Betts Basic Readers: The Language Arts Series
by Emmett A. Betts
3rd edition from American Book Co.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
About Clouds
by Thomas McGrath; illustrated by Chris Jenkyns
from Melmont Publishers
for 1st-2nd grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
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)
Anatole and His Donkey
by Laurent de Brunhoff, translated from the French by Richard Howard
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
And I Mean It, Stanley
by Crosby Bonsall
1st edition from HarperCrest
for Preschool-1st grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Animals in the Zoo
by Feodor Rojankovsky
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Apple Strudel Soldier
by Tom McGowen, illustrated by John E. Johnson
from Follett Publishing Co.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Around Green Hills
Betts Basic Readers: The Language Arts Series
by Emmett A. Betts
from American Book Co.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Arthur's Christmas Cookies
I Can Read! Level 2
by Lilian Hoban
from HarperCrest
for Preschool-2nd grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Arthur's New Power
by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Byron Barton
1st edition from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Baby Elephant's Trunk
by Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
from Harcourt, Brace & World
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Ben Franklin
See and Read: Beginning to Read Biography
by Estelle Friedman, illustrated by James Caraway
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$12.00 (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)
Big Book of Real Trains
by Elizabeth Cameron, illustrated by George J. Zaffo
1971 printing from Grosset & Dunlap
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Big Brother
by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Mary Chalmers
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Bobbsey Twins #70
Bobbsey Twins #70
by Laura Lee Hope
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 1st-4th grade
in Bobbsey Twins (Location: VIN-SER)
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)
Brown Cow Farm
by Dahlov Ipcar
First Edition from Doubleday & Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Captain John Paul Jones
by Ronald Syme
from William Morrow & Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Case of the Hungry Stranger
An I Can Read Book Level 2
by Crosby Bonsall
from Harper & Row
Children's Mystery for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$6.00 (2 in stock)
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)
Changes, Changes
by Pat Hutchins
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Circles, Triangle and Squares
by Tana Hoban
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Circus Numbers
by Rodney Peppe
Revised from Delacorte Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Cliff Dwellers of Walnut Canyon
by Carroll Lane Fenton and Alice Epstein, illustrated by Albert Orbaan and Carroll Lane Fenton
from The John Day Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Clocks and More Clocks
by Pat Hutchins
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.00 (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)
Cyrano the Crow
by Don Freeman
from Viking Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
David and the Giant
I Can Read books
by Mike McClintock; illustrated by Fritz Siebel
from HarperCrest
for Kindergarten-1st grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
Do You Move As I Do?
by Helen Borten
from E.M. Hale and Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
Earning Money
Living and Working Together
by Frederic Rossomando, Florence Leventhal, Marilyn Szymaszek, illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi
from Franklin Watts
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Eggs of Things
by Maxine W. Kumin and Anne Sexton, illustrated by Leonard Shortall
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$25.00 (1 in stock)
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 Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
First Book of Sea Shells
by Betty Cavanna, Illustrated by Marguerite Scott
from Franklin Watts
for 1st-4th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
From Elephants to Eskimos
Harper & Row Basic Reading Program
by Byron H. VanRoekel and Mary Jean Kluwe
from Harper & Row
for 1st-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Fun with Our Friends
The New Basic Readers Primer
by Helen M. Robinson, Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artley, and Charlotte Huck, illustrated by Bob Childress & Jack White
from Scott, Foresman & Co.
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Good Knight for Dragons
by Roger Bradfield
from Young Scott Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$35.00 (1 in stock)
Happy Birthday Egg
by David Cornel DeJong, illustrated by Harvey Weiss
1st edition from Atlantic Monthly Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Hole, a Box and a Stick
by Gladys Yessayan Cretan, illustrated by Edward Frascino
from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
How and Why: Heroes
by George W. Diemer (editor), contributing editor Claude Merton Wise
from The L.J. Bullard Co.
for 1st-4th grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Hungry Leprechaun
by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
from William Morrow & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Hurry Hurry
by Edith Thacher Hurd, Illustrated by Clement Hurd
from Harper & Row
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$20.00 (2 in stock)
I Should Have Stayed in Bed
by Joan M. Lexau, illustrated by Syd Hoff
from Harper & Row
for Kindergarten-1st grade
in Early Readers (Location: EAR-MISC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
I Watch Flies
by Gladys Conklin, illustrated by Jean Day Zallinger
from Holiday House
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
If I Were a Bird
by Gladys Conklin; illustrated by Artur Marokvia
from Holiday House
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Illustrated Comic Alphabet
by Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Indian Two Feet and His Horse
by Margaret Friskey
from Children's Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
It Happens on a Ranch
Linguistic Readers First Reader
by Jack E. Richardson, Jr., Henry Lee Smith, Jr., Bernard J. Weiss, illustrated by Tak Murakami
from Harper & Row
for 1st-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$2.00 (9 in stock)
Jack and Janet
Reading for Meaning 1.1
by Paul McKee, M. Lucile Harrison, Annie McCowen, and Elizabeth Lehr
Revised from Houghton Mifflin
for 1st grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
Johnny Crow's Garden
by L. Leslie Brooke
from Frederick Warne & Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Johnny Lion's Bad Day
by Edith Thacher Hurd, illustrated by Clement Hurd
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-1st grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Kenny's Window
by Maurice Sendak
Undated Reprint from HarperCrest
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$35.00 (1 in stock)
Kick, Pass, and Run
by Leonard Kessler
from HarperCrest
for Preschool-2nd grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Kid Brother
by Jerrold Beim, illustrated by Tracy Sugarman
from Morrow Eagle
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Lands of Pleasure
by Albert J. Harris and Mae Knight Clark (senior authors)
from Macmillan
for 1st-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
Lassie and the Secret Friend
by Kennon Graham, illustrated by Bob Schaar
from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Legend of the Willow Plate
from Parents Magazine Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Let's Go for a Nature Walk
by Joan Rosner, illustrated by Betty Harrington
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 1st-4th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$34.00 (1 in stock)
Little Fish That Got Away
by Bernadine Cook, illustrated by Crockett Johnson
from Young Scott Books
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Little Indian
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Richard Scarry
from Simon and Schuster
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
Little Indian Weaver
Children of All Lands Stories
by Madeline Brandeis
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 1st-4th grade
Look at a Kitten
by Dare Wright
from Random House
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$24.00 (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)
Madeline and the Gypsies
by Ludwig Bemelmans
7th Printing 1972 from Viking Books for Young Readers
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Man Named Washington
by Gertrude Norman, illustrated by James Caraway
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$24.00 (1 in stock)
Man Who Walked Around the World
by Benjamin Elkin, illustrated by Katherine Evans
from Children's Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.00 (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)
Maxie
by Mildred Kantrowitz, illustrated by Emily A. McCully
from Parents Magazine Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Mei Li
by Thomas Handforth
Reissue from Doubleday & Company
1939 Caldecott Medal winner
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$19.00 (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)
More Fun with Our Friends
from Scott, Foresman & Co.
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
More Fun with Our Friends
The New Basic Readers Book 1
by Helen M. Robinson, Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artley, illustrated by Richard H. Wiley, Jack White, and Rod Ruth
from Scott, Foresman & Co.
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
More Fun with Our Friends - Teacher's Edition
The New Basic Readers
from Scott, Foresman & Co.
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Music for Living Book 4: Near and Far
by James L. Mursell, et. al., illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky
from Silver Burdett Press
Songbook for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
My Friend John
by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Ben Shecter
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
New Golden Dictionary
by Bertha Morris Parker, illustrated by Aurelius Battaglia
from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
New Our New Friends
New Cathedral Basic Readers
by John A. O'Brien
from Scott, Foresman & Co.
for 1st grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
No Funny Business
by Edith Thacher Hurd, illustrated by Clement Hurd
from HarperCrest
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
No Roses for Harry!
by Gene Zion
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Noel for Jeanne-Marie
by Francoise
from Charles Scribner's Sons
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Nothing to Wear But Clothes
by Frank Jupo
from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Nubber Bear
by William Lipkind, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
from Harcourt, Brace & World
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$28.00 (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)
Oliver Pete is a Bird
by Carroll Lane Fenton and Dorothy Constance Pallas
from The John Day Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
On Four Feet
Macmillan Readers
by Arthur I. Gates
from Macmillan
for 1st grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
One Silver Second
by Daphne Doward Hogstrom, illustrated by Gordon Laite
Stated First Printing from Rand McNally
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$50.00 (1 in stock)
One Step, Two...
by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
from E.M. Hale and Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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)
Outside my Window
from HarperCrest
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Over, Under & Through
by Tana Hoban
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.00 (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 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)
Peter's Three Friends
by Winifred Bromhall
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Pilgrims' Party
A Really Truly Story
by Sadybeth & Anson Lowitz
from Lerner Publishing Group
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$15.00 (2 in stock)
Printmaking
Crafts for Children
by Harlow Rockwell
1st edition from Doubleday & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$13.00 (1 in stock)
Quick as a Wink
by Dorothy Aldis, illustrated by Peggy Westphal
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Riddles Around the World
from E.M. Hale and Company
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Rosie's Walk
by Pat Hutchins
from Macmillan
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
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