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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.

	Beggar's King by Howard C. Emmons from Van Kampen Press for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Black Falcon by Armstrong Sperry from John C. Winston for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $18.00 (1 in stock)
	Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Blowing-Wand A Story of Bohemian Glassmaking in Ohio 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)
	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)
	Chariot in the Sky A Story of the Jubilee Singers Land of the Free Series by Arna Bontemps, illustrated by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge 1^st edition from John C. Winston Historical fiction for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $35.00 (1 in stock)
	Chord of Steel The Story of the Invention of the Telephone by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes, illustrated by Armstrong Sperry from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 8th-12th grade 1937 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $45.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Darkness and the Dawn by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Downright Dencey by Caroline Dale Snedeker, illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney from Doubleday & Company Realistic Fiction for 6th-9th grade 1928 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $22.00 (1 in stock)
	ECL: Virginian Educator Classic Library #6 by Owen Wister, illustrated by Don Irwin Complete and Unabridged Edition from Classic Press in Educator Classic Library (Location: VIN-ECL) $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Far Frontier by William O. Steele; illustrated by Paul Galdone from Harcourt for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Fields of Home by Ralph Moody Book Club from People's Book Club for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	First Four Years (Pictorial Cover) by Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams from Harper & Row for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Helmet of Navarre The Story of King Henry IV of France by Burke Wilkinson, illustrated by James W. Williamson Second Printing from Macmillan for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Horses of Anger by James Forman 2nd Printing from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Jack Wade, Fighter for Liberty A Doubleday Signal Book by Irving Werstein, illustrated by Albert Orbaan from Doubleday & Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Journey to America by Sonia Levitin, illustrated by Charles Robinson from Atheneum for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Lady of Arlington A Novel Based on the Life of Mrs. Robert E. Lee by Harnett T. Kane from Doubleday & Company for 6th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester from Little, Brown & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Man of the Family Little Britches Series #2 by Ralph Moody from People's Book Club Biography for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Man of the Family Little Britches Series #2 by Ralph Moody 1^st edition from W. W. Norton and Co. Biography for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Me, Cholay & Co. by Don Schellie from Four Winds Press for 5th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Moccasin Trail Puffin Newbery Library by Eloise J. McGraw 9th impression from Coward McCann Historical Fiction for 4th-8th grade 1953 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $35.00 (1 in stock)
	Never Dies the Dream by Margaret Landon from Doubleday & Company for 7th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Ojibway Drums by Marian Magoon, illustrated by Larry Toschik from Longmans, Green & Co. for 5th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller, illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham 1930s printing from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 6th-10th grade 1930 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $115.00 (1 in stock)
	Ride With Me by Thomas B. Costain 1944 Edition from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter, edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth from Charles Scribner's Sons for 8th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $20.00 (1 in stock)
	Secret Church by Louise A. Vernon; illustrated by Thomas Dunbebin from Review and Herald Publishing Association for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Seek the Dark Gold A Story of the Scots Fur Traders Land of the Free series by Jo Evalin Lundy, illustrated by Edward Shenton from John C. Winston Historical fiction for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign by Joseph A. Altsheler from Appleton-Century-Crofts for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (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 Sword Also Published As Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges from Criterion Books for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (3 in stock)
	Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell from Houghton Mifflin for 6th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, illustrated by Eros Keith from Bradbury Press Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade 1974 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Son of a Hundred Kings A Novel of the Nineties by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 7th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	This Dear-Bought Land by Jean Lee Latham from Harper & Row for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $56.00 (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)
	Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly, illustrated by Angela Pruszynska from Macmillan Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade 1929 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $25.00 (1 in stock)
	Two Years Before the Mast (abridged) by Richard Henry Dana Jr. from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	We Were There at the Battle of Gettysburg by Alida Sims Malkus Reprint from Dover Publications for 5th-9th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $6.99
	We Were There at the Boston Tea Party by Robert N. Webb from Dover Publications for 5th-9th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $9.99
	We Were There at the Driving of the Golden Spike by David Shepherd, William K. Plummer Reprint from Dover Publications for 5th-9th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $7.99
	We Were There at the First Airplane Flight by Felix Sutton, illustrated by Lazlo Matulay Reprint from Dover Publications for 5th-9th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $6.99
	Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr, illustrated by Richard Holberg from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 5th-8th grade 1941 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (2 in stock)

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