Vintage Picture Books

Nearly all of the books here are copies from 1975 or earlier. A few more recent titles are hard enough to find that we include them as collectible.

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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)
3 x 3 Three by Three
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Adding: A Poem
by Christina Rossetti, illustrated by Jan Balet
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Adventures with Words
First Adventures in Learning Program
by Adelaide Holl, illustrated by J.P. Miller
from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Alexander Kitten
Junior Elf Book #8003
by Jessica Potter Broderick; illustrated by Marge Opitz Burridge
from Rand McNally
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
All Kinds of Signs
by Seymour Reit, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.60 (1 in stock)
An Edwardian Christmas
by John S. Goodall
from Atheneum
for Preschool-Adult
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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)
Andy: A Visit to the Hospital
Whitman Tell-A-Tale #2524
by Florence Michelson, illustrated by Hazel Hoecker
from Whitman Publishing Company
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Angels' Alphabet
by Hilda Van Stockum
from Bethlehem Books
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Animals Build a House
Wonder Books #817
by Robert Marsia and Gilbert Delahaye
from Wonder Books
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$9.60 (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)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Animals on the Farm
by Feodor Rojankovsky
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Animals' Bus Ride
by Helen Wing; illustrated by Irma Wilde
from Rand McNally
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (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)
Around the Corner
by Jean B. Showalter, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
from Doubleday & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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)
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)
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)
Babar's Picnic
by Laurent de Brunhoff, translated by Merle Haas
from Random House
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$25.60 (1 in stock)
Babes and Cradles
by Maud Wolcott Spalding, illustrated by Lucile Patterson Marsh & Anita Parkhurst
from Southern Publishing Association
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Barney's Adventure
by Margot Austin
from Scholastic Inc.
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$1.60 (2 in stock)
Beach Before Breakfast
by Maxine W. Kumin, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Bear Party
by William Pene du Bois
from Seafarer Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
by Walt Disney Studios
from Golden Press
for Preschool-Kindergarten
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Best Friends
by Miriam Cohen, illustrated by Lillian Hoban
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (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)
Beware! Museum Bears
by Jacqueline Karas, Illustrated by Malcolm Ashman
First Ed 1st Printing from Bridgewater Books
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (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)
Big New School
Follett Beginning-to-Read Book
by Evelyn Hastings, illustrated by Polly Jackson
from Follett Publishing Co.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Big Whistle
Whitman Tell-A-Tale #2522
by Ann Tompert, illustrated by Louise Myers
from Whitman Publishing Company
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.60 (2 in stock)
Book of Clowns
by Felix Sutton, illustrated by James Schucker
from Grosset & Dunlap
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Boy Had a Mother Who Bought Him a Hat
by Karla Kuskin
from Houghton Mifflin
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Brave Davy Coon
by Laurence Hyde
from Harper & Brothers
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Brian Wildsmith's Birds
by Brian Wildsmith
from Franklin Watts
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Brown Cow Farm
by Dahlov Ipcar
First Edition from Doubleday & Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Bugle, A Puppy in Old Yorktown
by Mary Andrews, Illustrated by Manning de V. Lee
from Rand McNally
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Bundle Book
from Harper & Brothers
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Butterfly! A Story of Magic
Whitman Tell-A-Tale #2559
by Eileen Daly, illustrated by Florence Sarah Winship
from Western Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.60 (1 in stock)
Casper the Friendly Ghost and Wendy the Good Little Witch
by Harvey Cartoon Studios
1974 printing from Wonder Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$7.20 (1 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)
$30.40 (1 in stock)
Changes, Changes
by Pat Hutchins
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Chick and the Duckling
by Mirra Ginsburg
from Macmillan
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Chicken Soup With Rice
by Maurice Sendak
from HarperCrest
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Children of the Northlights
by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire
1962 Reprint from Viking Press
for Preschool-4th grade
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
Children's Picture Book
by Ernest Nister
from Delacorte Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Children's Theatre
by Franz Bonn
from Viking Press
for Preschool-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Christmas Puppy
Wonder Books #585
by Irma Wilde
from Wonder Books
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Church Mice Spread Their Wings
by Graham Oakley
from Atheneum
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Circles, Triangle and Squares
by Tana Hoban
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Circus Numbers
by Rodney Peppe
Revised from Delacorte Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Clocks and More Clocks
by Pat Hutchins
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Cock Robin
by Barbara Cooney
from Charles Scribner's Sons
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Company's Coming for Dinner
by Myra Berry Brown, illustrated by Dorothy Marino
from Franklin Watts
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Copycat
by Helen Borten
from Abelard - Schuman
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Corky's Hiccups
Whitman BIG Tell-A-Tale #2428
by Nicolete Stack, illustrated by Tom O'Sullivan
from Whitman Publishing Company
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Cranberry Easter
by Wende and Harry Devlin
from Four Winds Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Crane Maiden
by Miyoko Matsutani, illustrated by Chihiro Iwasaki
from Parents Magazine Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Cyrano the Crow
by Don Freeman
from Viking Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Daddy is Home!
by David Blomquist, illustrated by Aliki, music by Larry Grossman
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Danny's Pig
by Janice May Udry, illustrated by Mariana
from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Dead Tree
by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Charles Robinson
from Parents Magazine Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Dear Friends
by Zhenya Gay
from Harper & Brothers
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Digger Dan
Tell-A-Tale Books
by Patricia Lynn, illustrated by Si Frankel
from Whitman Publishing Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Diggers
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$48.00 (2 in stock)
Digging for China
by Richard Wilbur, illustrated by William Pene du Bois
from Doubleday & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Dinosaurs
by Jane Werner Watson
1975 Printing from Golden Press
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
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)
Donkey-Donkey
from Grosset & Dunlap
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Elephant's Dilemma
A Bonnie Book
by Dee Thomas, illustrated by Kippy
from John Martin's House, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Eloise in Moscow
by Kay Thompson, illustrated by Hilary Knight
from Simon and Schuster
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Elves and the Shoemaker
Tip-Top Elf Book
by Illustrated by Manning De V. Lee
from Rand McNally
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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)
Favorite Nursery Tales
by Jo Turner
1970 Edition from Golden Press
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
First Poems of Childhood
by Tasha Tudor (illustrator)
from Platt and Munk Publishers
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Fish Head
by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Marc Simont
2nd Edition, 1972 from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Five Cent, Five Cent
by Edna Walker Chandler, illustrated Betty Stull
from Albert Whitman & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Gabriel Churchkitten
by Margot Austin
from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Garland of Games & Other Diversions
by Barbara Cooney
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
George and Martha Encore
by James Marshall
from Houghton Mifflin
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Gingerbread Boy
by Watty Piper, illustrated by Eulalie
from Platt and Munk Publishers
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Goggles!
by Ezra Jack Keats
First Printing from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
1970 Caldecott Honor Book
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Golden Egg Book
Big Golden Book
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Golden Egg Book
Big Golden Book
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Lilian Obligado
"C" Printing from Golden Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (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)
$28.00 (1 in stock)
Good Morning, Farm
A Whitman Giant Tell-A-Tale Book
by Betty Ren Wright, illustrated by Fred Weinman
from Whitman Publishing Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Good Neighbors
by Diane Redfield Massie
from American Education Publications
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Good-Night, Owl!
by Pat Hutchins
from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Gorilla Baby
by Pearl Wolf
from Scholastic Book Services
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Great Circus Parade
by Evelyn Malone Curro
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$9.60 (1 in stock)
Gumby and Gumby's Pal Pokey
Whitman Tell-A-Tale #2506
by Betty Biesterveld, illustrated by George DeSantis
from Whitman Publishing Company
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$12.00 (1 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 was a Friendly Ghost
from William Morrow & Company
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$12.80 (1 in stock)
Half-as-Big and the Tiger
by Bernice Frankel, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
from Franklin Watts
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Happy Animals' ABC
Junior Elf Book #8131
by Helen Wing; illustrated by Racey Helps
from Rand McNally
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.20 (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)
$9.60 (1 in stock)
Harvey's Hideout
by Russell & Lillian Hoban
from Parents Magazine Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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