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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An Edwardian Christmas
by John S. Goodall
from Atheneum
for Preschool-Adult
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
by Dr. Seuss
15th printing 1967 from Vanguard Press
Rhyming Fantasy for 1st-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$19.20 (1 in stock)
Animals of the Bible
by Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Howard Berelson
from Doubleday & Company
for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Babar the King / Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Jean de Brunhoff (Babar); Rose Dobbs (reteller, Grimm), Illustrated by Gertrude Elliott Espensheid
from Random House
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$5.60 (1 in stock)
Be Nice to Spiders
by Margaret Bloy Graham
from Harper & Row
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Becky's Christmas
by Tasha Tudor
from Viking Press
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Bedtime for Frances
by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Garth Williams
from Scholastic Inc.
Animal Fantasy for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.60 (1 in stock)
Black Heart of Indri
by Dorothy Hoge; illustrated by Janina Domanska
from Charles Scribner's Sons
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Blaze Finds the Trail
by C. W. Anderson
from Macmillan
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Bounce and the Bunnies
by Ruth Carroll
2nd edition from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Brave Soldier Janosh
by Victor G. Ambrus
from Harcourt, Brace & World
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Brer Rabbit and His Tricks
by Ennis Rees; illustrated by Edward Gorey
from Young Scott Books
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Castle of Ladies
by Constance Hieatt, illustrated by Norman Laliberté
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Child's Book of Bible Stories
by Jane Werner; illustrated by Masha
from Random House
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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 Theatre
by Franz Bonn
from Viking Press
for Preschool-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Pop-Up Book
by Ian Fleming, abridged by Albert G. Miller, illustrated by Gwen Gordon and Dave Chambers
from Random House
for Kindergarten-Adult
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Christmas Folk
by Natalia M. Belting, illustrated by Barbara Cooney
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Days of the Week
by William R. Keyser; illustrated by Howard Simon
from Harvey House, Inc., Publishers
for 3rd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?
by Helen Palmer, photographs by Lynn Fayman
Book Club from Random House
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Dwarf Long-nose
by Wilhelm Hauff, translated by Doris Orgel and illustrated by Maurice Sendak
from Random House
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Fireside Stories
by Veronica S. Hutchinson
from Minton, Balch & CO.
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
First Book of Tales of Ancient Araby
First Books
by Charles Mozley
from Franklin Watts
for 1st-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Flip
by Wesley Dennis
from Scholastic Book Services
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Flip / I'm Tired of Lions
by Wesley Dennis & Zhenya Gay
from Viking Press
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Flip and the Cows
by Wesley Dennis
from Viking Press
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Flip and the Morning
by Wesley Dennis
from Viking Press
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Giraffe Twins
by Inez Hogan
from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Golden Book of Birds
by Hazel Lockwood, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky
from Simon and Schuster
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Golden Vanity
by John Langstaff, illustrated by David Gentleman
from Harcourt Brace Jovanich
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Great Corgiville Kidnapping
by Tasha Tudor
from Little, Brown & Company
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Happily Ever After
by Alice Dalgliesh, illustrated by Katherine Milhous
from E.M. Hale and Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Hat For a Hero
by Laura Bannon
from Albert Whitman & Company
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Henry's Quest
by Graham Oakley
from Atheneum
for 1st-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$48.00 (1 in stock)
Higglety Pigglety Pop!
by Maurice Sendak
from Harper & Row
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Higglety Pigglety Pop!
by Maurice Sendak
from Harper & Row
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Honk, the Moose
by Phil Stong; illustrated by Kurt Wiese
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
1936 Newbery Honor Book
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
House on East 88th Street
by Bernard Waber
from Houghton Mifflin
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
How the Moon Began
by James Reeves, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
from Abelard - Schuman
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Ian Fleming's Story of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! The Magical Car
by Ian Fleming (original story), adapted by Al Perkins, illustrated by B. Tobey
from Random House Books for Young Readers
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Ice Bird
by Pauline Innis, illustrated by Wesley Dennis
from Robert B. Luce, Inc.
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Jack the Giant Killer
by Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by Pablo Ramirez
from Bobbs-Merril Co
for 1st-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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)
Joy of the Court
by Constance Hieatt, illustrated by Pauline D. Baynes
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
King's Fountain
by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Knight of the Cart
by Constance Hieatt, illustrated by John Gretzer
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Knight of the Lion
by Constance Hieatt, illustrated by Joseph Low
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Knots on a Counting Rope
by Bill Martin Jr. & Joe Smith
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 2nd-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Lassie and the Deer Mystery
A Whitman Big Tell-a-Tale #2442
by Jean Fiedler, illustrated by Larry Harris
from Whitman Publishing Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln, illustrated by James Daugherty
2nd edition from Albert Whitman & Company
for 3rd-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Lion and the Carpenter
by Jean Stafford
from Macmillan
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Little Child
by Jessie Orton Jones & Elizabeth Orton Jones
from Viking Press
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Little Fox
by Edith Brecht, Illustrated by Joan Sandin
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Little Toot on the Thames
by Hardie Gramatky
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Magic Story Tree
by Lucille & H. C. Holling
from Platt and Munk Publishers
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Minstrel Knight
by Constance Hieatt, illustrated by James Barkley
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Most Wonderful Doll in the World
by Phyllis McGinley, Illustrated by Helen Stone
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
1951 Caldecott Honor Book
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Moxie and Hanty and Bunty
by Margot Austin
from Charles Scribner's Sons
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$20.00 (1 in stock)
Mrs. McFinny and Her Friends
by Mary T. Schoonover, illustrated by Helena Schoonover
First Printing from Macmillan
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
My Friend Mac
by May McNeer, illustrated by Lynd Ward
from Houghton Mifflin
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
My Friendly Giraffe
from Me-Books Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Nothing to Do
by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban
from Harper & Row
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Noy Lives in Thailand
by Astrid Lindgren, photos by Anna Riwkin-Brick
from Macmillan
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Nutcracker retold
by Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by Jose Correas
from Bobbs-Merril Co
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Old Stories from Denmark
from Kaj Elle-Ebeltoft
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Paddington at the Circus
A Paddington Picture Book
by Michael Bond, illustrated by Fred Banbery
from Random House
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Paddington at the Seaside
by Michael Bond, illustrated by Fred Banbery
from Random House
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Paddington at the Tower
by Michael Bond, illustrated by Fred Banbery
from Collins
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Paddington Bear
A Paddington Picture Book
by Michael Bond, illustrated by Fred Banbery
from Random House
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Paddington's Garden
A Paddington Picture Book
by Michael Bond, illustrated by Fred Banbery
from Random House
Animal Fantasy for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Paddington's Lucky Day
A Paddington Picture Book
by Michael Bond, illustrated by Fred Banbery
from Random House
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
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 Bull
by Helen Oechsli, illustrated by Kelly Oechsli
from Viking Press
Danish Folk Tale for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$11.20 (1 in stock)
Peter Pan / Alice in Wonderland (abridged)
by J. M. Barrie & Lewis Carroll, abridged by Josette Frank & illustrated by Marjorie Torrey
from Random House
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Peter Spier's Rain
by Peter Spier
from Trumpet Club
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Pony Engine / Bedtime Stories
by Francis M. Ford, adapted by Doris Garn and illustrated by Gregorio Prestopino; Thornton W. Burgess, illustrated by Carl & Mary Hauge
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Prayer for a Child
by Rachel Field
1957 Printing from Macmillan
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.60 (1 in stock)
Read Me Another Fairy Tale
by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Wallace Tripp
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 1st-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Reindeer Trail
by Berta and Elmer Hader
from Macmillan
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Runaway Elephant
by Ellen Tarry
from E.M. Hale and Company
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
Shrewbettina's Birthday
by John S. Goodall
1973 Printing from Harcourt Brace Jovanich
for Preschool-Adult
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$15.20 (1 in stock)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Constance Hieatt, illustrated by Walter Lorraine
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Small Wolf
An I Can Read Book Level 3
by Nathaniel Benchley, illustrated by Joan Sandin
from Harper & Row
for 2nd-4th grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Sooner Hound
by Harvey Weiss
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Stocking for a Kitten
by Helen Kay, illustrated by Yaroslava
from Abelard - Schuman
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Story of the Magic Button
from Charles E. Graham & Co.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Summerfolk
by Doris Burn
from Weekly Reader
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$31.20 (1 in stock)
Sword and the Grail
by Constance Hieatt, illustrated by David Palladini
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Tales from Indian Classics Book III
by Savitri (reteller), illustrated by Sukumar Chatterjee
from Children's Book Press
for 2nd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Teenie Weenie Town
by William Donahey
from Whittlesey House
for 3rd-5th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
This is a Town
A Follett Beginning-to-Read Level 3 book
by Polly Curren, illustrated by Robert J. Lee
from Follett Publishing Co.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
This is Munich
by Miroslav Sasek
1962 printing from Macmillan
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$25.60 (1 in stock)
This is the United Nations
by Miroslav Sasek
1st edition from Macmillan
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$60.00 (1 in stock)
Three to Get Ready
by Betty Boegehold and Mary Chalmers
from Harper & Row
for 1st-3rd grade
in I Can Read Books (Location: EAR-ICR)
$2.40 (2 in stock)
Thy Friend, Obadiah (hardcover)
by Brinton Turkle
1972 Seafarer Edition from Viking Press
Realistic Animal Stories for Kindergarten-3rd grade
1970 Caldecott Honor Book
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Tim All Alone
by Edward Ardizzone
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
for 1st-4th grade
1956 Kate Greenaway Medal
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Tom Thumb and Other Favorites / Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
by L. Leslie Brooke & Charles Robinson, illustrators
from Grolier Publishing
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Tops and Bottoms
by Lesley Conger
from Scholastic Book Services
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$12.80 (1 in stock)
Treasury of Nursery Rhymes / Tom Thumb and Other Favorites
by Unknown, illustrated by Charles Robinson & L. Leslie Brooke
from Grolier Publishing
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Treat in a Trout
by Elisabeth Benson Booz
from Houghton Mifflin
for 1st-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
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