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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.

	...and now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold from Thomas Crowell for 5th-8th grade 1954 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Adventures of Perrine from the French En Famille Windermere Readers #10 by Hector Malot, translated by Gil Meynier, adapted by Edith Heal 1954 edition from Rand McNally for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	All Aboard for Freedom by Marie McSwigan, illustrated by E. Harper Johnson, with an introduction by Jan Papanek from E.P. Dutton & Co. for 5th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $30.00 (1 in stock)
	Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman from J.B. Lippincott Co. Realistic Fiction for 4th-8th grade 1955 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Beautiful Joe A Dog's Own Story G&D Famous Dog Stories by Marshall Saunders from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Beautiful Joe A Dog's Own Story G&D Famous Dog Stories by Marshall Saunders from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace, illustrated by Vera Neville 15th Printing from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 6th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $45.00 (1 in stock)
	Black Beauty Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Anna Sewell, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Animal Stories for 4th-8th grade in Animal Stories (Location: FIC-ANI) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Black Beauty Junior Deluxe Editions by Anna Sewell, illustrated by Walter Seaton from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 4th-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 Symbol by Annabel & Edgar Johnson from Harper & Row for 6th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Camel Caravan by Arthur Catherall, illustrated by Joseph Papin from Seabury Press for 4th-8th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Cinchfoot The Story of a Range Horse by Thomas C. Hinkle from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster 1^st edition from Century Co. Orphan Stories for 6th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $40.00 (1 in stock)
	Design for Ann by Darlene Geis from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 6th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $18.00 (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)
	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)
	Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott from Whitman Publishing Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $7.50 (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)
	Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong; illustrated by Kathryn Uhl from Harper & Brothers for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (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)
	Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney, illustrated by Anna Marie Magagna 1962, Second Printing from Macmillan for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Green Grass of Wyoming Flicka #3 by Mary O'Hara from J.B. Lippincott Co. for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates 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)
	Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter from Grosset & Dunlap for 7th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Heidi A Story for Children and Those Who Love Children Rainbow Classics by Johanna Spyri, translated by Marian Edwards and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard 1st Printing from World Publishing Company for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Heidi A Golden Classic by Johanna Spyri, translated by Helen Dole, illustrated by Edna Cook Shoemaker & Pelagie Doane from Grosset & Dunlap Realistic Fiction for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Heidi A Story for Children and Those Who Love Children Windermere Readers #3 by Johanna Spyri, translated by Philip Schuyler Allen and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright 1954 Edition from Rand McNally for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop 1969 printing from Macmillan for 5th-9th grade 1930 Newbery Medal Winner in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Hound-dog Man by Fred Gipson First Edition L-X from Harper & Brothers for 6th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven Book Club from Doubleday & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Jamie by Jack Bennett from Little, Brown & Company for 6th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJong, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully 1971 printing from Inheritance Publications Realistic Fiction for 4th-8th grade 1954 Newbery Honor Book in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $18.90
	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)
	Little Lord Fauntleroy Junior Deluxe Editions by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Peter Spier from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Little Women Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Louis Jambor from Grosset & Dunlap Romantic Realistic Fiction for 4th-9th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $14.00 (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)
	Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry; illustrated by Wesley Dennis from Rand McNally for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (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)
	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)
	Ranch under the Rimrock by Dorothy Lawson McCall from Binford & Mort Publishing for 8th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Valenti Angelo from Viking Press Realistic fiction for 5th-8th grade 1937 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $17.00 (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)
	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)
	Single Light by Maia Wojciechowska from Harper & Row for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (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)
	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)
	Stormy, Misty's Foal by Marguerite Henry from Rand McNally for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Stormy, Misty's Foal (pictorial hardcover) by Marguerite Henry from Rand McNally for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (2 in stock)
	Strawberry Point Vignettes of an Iowa Childhood by Florence Roe Wiggins from T.S. Denison & Company for 7th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Talking Leaf by Weyman Jones from Dial Press for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes from New York Publishing Company for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Tontine Volume I by Thomas B. Costain from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (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)
	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)
	Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, illustrated by Ed Young from Henry Holt and Company Realistic Fiction for 5th-8th grade 1933 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (2 in stock)

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