Vintage Fiction & Literature

Children's literature is said to have had a "Golden Age" starting in the 1860s and lasting until about WWI. It was during this time that perennial favorites like Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Pinocchio, Treasure Island, and Tom Sawyer were published. The latter part of this period coincided with the establishment of Howard Pyle's "Brandywine School" of Illustration, out of which came such artists as N.C. Wyeth, Jessie Willcox Smith, Ethel Franklin Betts, Frank Schoonover, Edward A. Wilson, and numerous others. These artists in turn influenced further generations of illustrators. 

During this period and into the sixties, numerous collections of children's literature were published: Scribners Illustrated Library, Junior Deluxe Editions, Rainbow Classics, Windermere Series and Illustrated Junior Library were among them. Mystery series like Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Bobbsey Twins proliferated. Anthology collections like Best In Children's Books, My Book House, Collier's Junior Classics, and the Children's Hour became popular. The Newbery and Caldecott Medals were established. And for adults, the Heritage Press volumes (which later became Easton/Franklin) filled many a spot in their libraries. There are, of course, many others, but these are the sorts of books you'll generally find in thus section.

We primarily offer copies in generally good condition here. They're usually hardcover but won't always (or even often) have their original dust jackets. We love to find a range of printings and illustrators, so sometimes you'll have a few options!

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"Stand Back," Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!"
by Patricia Thomas, illustrated by Wallace Tripp
from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Aesop's Fables
Illustrated Junior Library Series 2
by Aesop, illustrated by Fritz Kredel
from Grosset & Dunlap
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-FIC)
Arthur's Christmas Cookies
I Can Read! Level 2
by Lilian Hoban
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-2nd grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$2.80 (1 in stock)
Awake and Away
by Leslie W. Irwin, Waid W. Tuttle, Caroline De Kelver, illustrated by Martha E. Miller and Miriam S. Hurford
from Lyons & Carnahan
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Babar and His Children / Tale of Benjamin Bunny
by Jean de Brunhoff (Babar); Beatrix Potter (Benjamin)
from Grolier Society
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (2 in stock)
Babar and Zephir / Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
by Jean de Brunhoff (Babar) and Beatrix Potter (Squirrel Nutkin)
from Random House Books for Young Readers
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Best Loved Fables of Aesop / Nonsense Alphabets
by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by John Tenniel and Joseph Wolf; Edward Lear (Nonsense)
from Grolier Publishing
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (2 in stock)
Best Loved Fairy Tales / Selections from a Child's Garden of Verses
by Walter Crane & Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith
from Grolier Publishing
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Calico Bush
by Rachel Field, illustrated by Allen Lewis
from Macmillan
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$5.60 (1 in stock)
Children's Stories of the Bible from the Old and New Testaments
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
from Playmore Publishers
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Vintage Bible Story Books (Location: VIN-BIB)
$3.60 (1 in stock)
Collier's Junior Classics - 10 Volume Set
by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor
from Crowell-Collier
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$50.00 (1 in stock)
Collier's Junior Classics Volume 10: Gifts From the Past
by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Elenora Alexander, Volume Editor
from Crowell-Collier
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Collier's Junior Classics Volume 4: Just Around the Corner
by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Alice Brooks McGuire, Volume Editor
from Crowell-Collier
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Danny and the Dinosaur
by Syd Hoff
1981 reprint from Harper & Row
for Preschool-1st grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
George the Babysitter
by Shirley Hughes
from Prentice Hall
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Girls and Boys at Home - Teacher's Edition
Living In Our World Social Studies Series
by Helen Heffernan
from Harr Wagner Publishing Company
for Preschool-Kindergarten
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.60 (1 in stock)
Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends
by Anne Terry White; illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Gollywhopper Egg
by Anne Rockwell
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Early Readers (Location: EAR-MISC)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Good Neighbors
by Diane Redfield Massie
from American Education Publications
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Great Big Elephant & the Very Small Elephant
by Barbara Seuling
from Crown Publishers
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Gregory, the Terrible Eater
by Mitchell Sharmat, illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey
from Simon and Schuster
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$4.50 (2 in stock)
Gus and the Baby Ghost
by Jane Thayer, illustrated by Seymour Fleishman
from William Morrow & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Gus Loved His Happy Home
by Jane Thayer, illustrated by Seymour Fleishman
from Linnet Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Jiri Trnka
5th Impression, 1965 from Paul Hamlyn
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Headstart Book of Be Nimble & Be Quick
by Shari Lewis and Jacquelyn Reinach, designed and illustrations by Kent Salisbury and Adrina Zanazanian
from McGraw-Hill
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$9.60 (1 in stock)
Hound and Bear
by Dick Gackenbach
from Weekly Reader
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
How to Scare a Lion
by Dorothy Stephenson, illustrated by John E. Johnson
from Follett
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Joey Runs Away
by Jack Kent
from Prentice Hall
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Johnny Crow's Garden / Andersen's Fairy Tales
by L. Leslie Brooke & Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Rose Dobbs and illustrated by Gustav Hjortlund
from Frederick Warne & Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Journey Cake, Ho!
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Robert McCloskey
from Viking Press
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
1954 Caldecott Honor Book
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Little Locomotive
by Ib Spang Olsen, translated by Virginia Allen Jensen
Weekly Reader from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Margot Austin's Churchmouse Stories
by Margot Austin
from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
McBroom's Ghost
by Sid Fleischman, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
from Grosset & Dunlap
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
Mister Penny's Circus
by Marie Hall Ets
from Viking Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Moon Singer
by Clyde Robert Bulla
from Thomas Crowell
Fairy Tales & Fables for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
My Book House #01: In the Nursery
by Olive Beaupre Miller
from Book House for Children
for Preschool-6th grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$6.00 (2 in stock)
My Book House #05: Over the Hills
by Olive Beaupre Miller
from Book House for Children
for Preschool-6th grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$7.50 (2 in stock)
My Book House #10: From the Tower Window
by Olive Beaupre Miller
from Book House for Children
for Preschool-6th grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$6.00 (2 in stock)
My Book House #11: In Shining Armor
by Olive Beaupre Miller
from Book House for Children
for Preschool-6th grade
in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World / I Saw the Sea Come In
by Becky Reyher, illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett; Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
1946 Caldecott Honor Book
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Not Regina
by Christmas Carol Kauffman
Fourth Printing from Pathway Publishers
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Part-Time Dog
by Jane Thayer, illustrated by Seymour Fleishman
from William Morrow & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$9.60 (1 in stock)
Pinocchio / Adventures of Robin Hood
by C. Collodi, retold by Allen Chaffee and illustrated by Lois Lenski; Robin Hood retold by Eleanor Graham Vance and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
from Random House
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Piper, Pipe That Song Again
by Nancy Larrick
from Random House
for Preschool-5th grade
in Vintage Poetry (Location: VIN-POET)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes
by Peter & Iona Opie, illustrated by Pauline D. Baynes
from Puffin Books
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Robins and Rabbits
by John Hawkinson
from Scott, Foresman & Co.
for Preschool-Kindergarten
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Say Hello, Vanessa
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, illustrated by Lillian Hoban
from Holiday House
for Preschool-1st grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Small Child's Bible
by Pelagie Doane
from Unknown Publisher
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Vintage Bible Story Books (Location: VIN-BIB)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Story Bible
by Pearl S. Buck
from Bartholomew House, Ltd
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Vintage Bible Story Books (Location: VIN-BIB)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Story of Babar / Heidi
by Jean de Brunhoff, translated by Merle S. Haas, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, adapted by Florence Hayes and illustrated by Erika Weihs
from Random House
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Tailor of Gloucester/ How the Leopard Got His Spots and Other Stories
by Beatrix Potter (Tailor); Rudyard Kipling (Leopard)
from Grolier Society
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
This Way to Christmas
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney
from Harper & Brothers
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Tom and Susan
The Social Studies Program P
by Paul R. Hanna and Genevieve Anderson Hoyt, William S. Gray (reading director), illustrated by Ruth Steed
from Scott, Foresman & Co.
for Preschool
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Travels of Babar/ Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Jean de Brunhoff (Babar); Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit)
from Grolier Society
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (2 in stock)
Two Good Friends
by Judy Delton, illustrated by Giulio Maestro
from Weekly Reader
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Uncle Wiggily Book / Stories Around the Year
by Howard Roger Garis & Thornton W. Burgess
from Grosset & Dunlap
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.20 (2 in stock)
Veronica / Three Little Horses
by Roger Duvoisin & Piet Worm
from Random House
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (3 in stock)
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
from Golden Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
What's a Ghost Going to Do?
by Jane Thayer, illustrated by Seymour Fleishman
from William Morrow & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Winter Days in the Big Woods
My First Little House
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
from HarperCollins
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Zoo for Mister Muster
by Arnold Lobel
from Harper & Row
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)