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Collectibles Spotlight

Curated selections from our Collectibles Experts

At ThriftBooks we like to say our Collectibles category is like a treasure hunt. Except instead of searching for the gold in sand, it’s more like looking for gold in a pile of more gold. That is why we spotlight some of our favorite rare and vintage books from our experts every month, because from the first appearance of the iconic Berenstain Bears in 1962 to a rare Star Wars Starfighter Battle Book, there is a treasure to be found for everyone.

What is a Collectible Book?

The books that are placed into our Collectibles store include rare, out-of-print, vintage titles and even items signed by the author or illustrator. You can browse all first editions, all signed copies, or peruse collectibles by genre by using our search filters. What makes the Collectibles at ThriftBooks extra-special are our rare book experts who inspect and research these items. These experts use their decades of specialization and education in rare books (plus their sheer passion for the printed word!) to find the treasures in our stock and get them the care and attention they deserve. They even photograph the books so that you are seeing the exact item you will get. These experts have chosen all of the items you see on this page, hand-selecting their favorite of these treasures to share with you.

Staff Picks

Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir

from: $26.00

Command the Morning
Pearl S. Buck

Out of Stock

Horses I've known,
Will James

Out of Stock

Story of O
Pauline Réage

from: $32.00

Big Sky
A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Out of Stock

Big Red
Jim Kjelgaard

from: $40.00

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Eugene Field

from: $28.00

Fairies
Edward L. Gardner

Out of Stock

La Pell de Brau
Salvador Espriu

from: $24.00

Great Days
Donald Barthelme

from: $23.00

In the Boom Boom Room
David Rabe

Out of Stock

Man and magic
Benjamin Appel

from: $20.00

Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti
Paul Gauguin

from: $45.00

Freddy and the space ship;
Walter R. Brooks

Out of Stock

The Town Cried Murder
Zenith Jones Brown

from: $29.00

Rum Punch
Elmore Leonard

Out of Stock

The Agony Column
Earl Derr Biggers

Out of Stock

Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
Isaac Asimov

from: $14.00

The Hired Killers
Peter Wyden

from: $15.00

Escape from Einstein
Ronald R. Hatch

from: $143.00

The D. A. Calls it Murder
Erle Stanley Gardner

from: $12.00

The Bull Calf and Other Tales
A.B. Frost

from: $34.00

The Walt Disney story of our friend the atom,
Walt Disney Company

Out of Stock

The prisoners of Mainz
Alec Waugh

from: $34.00

The Prints of Robert Motherwell
Stephanie Terenzio

Out of Stock

Osborne of Sing Sing,
Frank Tannenbaum

from: $143.00

Baluchi Woven Treasures
Jeff W. Boucher

from: $51.00

The Colette Omnibus
Colette

Out of Stock

Collagraph Printmaking
Donald Stoltenberg

Out of Stock

MacArthur
Sydney L. Mayer

from: $13.00

Open Season
C.J. Box

from: $56.00

Japanese Customs and Manners
Mock Joya

Out of Stock

The Winchester Book
George Madis

from: $112.00

Untarnished
Peter Ash

Out of Stock

Maverick: More Than a Game
Phil Jackson

from: $124.00

Deputy Dawg
Crosby Newell

from: $12.00

Andree Putman
François-Olivier Rousseau

Out of Stock

Feramontov
Desmond Cory

Out of Stock

Culture Is Our Business
Herbert Marshall Mcluhan

Out of Stock

Memoirs of a Spy
Nicholas (nom de plume of Miklos Sultesz ) Snowden

Out of Stock

Bonaparte in Egypt
J. Christopher Herold

Out of Stock

Judo Throws and Counters
Eric. Dominy

from: $58.00

The Antietam and Fredericksburg
Francis W. Palfrey

Out of Stock

The Big Picture
David Cort

from: $15.00

William Tell Fantasia Pictorial
Rossini/mizusawa

from: $15.00

Mr. Wheatley Whale Stories
Frank Luther

from: $32.00

Merry Doings of Childhood
MCLOUGHLIN

Out of Stock

PEEPSHOW INTO PARADISE
Lesley Gordon

Out of Stock

The Isotope Man
Charles Eric Maine

Out of Stock

Goose Is Out
W.J. Gabb

from: $48.00

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon

from: $15.00

Fishing Kits and Equipment
Samuel Granger Camp

from: $34.00

The Day the MGM Grand Hotel Burned
Deirdre Coakley

from: $35.00

Fonteyn,
William Chappell

from: $32.00

Mr Punch's Cockney Humour
MR Punch

from: $32.00

The Woods Colt: A Novel of the Ozark Hills
Raymond Williamson, Thames illust:Bishop

Out of Stock

The Roald Dahl Treasury
Roald Dahl

from: $68.00

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Usurper Book Two of the Zarryiostrom
Nena Tina Thomas and Stephen Christian Plagman

from: $62.00

The Gentle Suduction
Marc Stiegler

from: $77.00

Ava's Demon
Michelle Fus

from: $101.00

The Early Long
Frank Belknap Long

from: $28.00

Alien Art
Gordon R. Dickson

from: $24.00

Diary of a Spaceperson
Chris Foss

Out of Stock

Shadowrun 20th Anniversary Edition
Catalyst Game Labs

Out of Stock

World War Robot: 215.MM Edition
T.P. Louise

Out of Stock

The Croquet Player
H.G. Wells

from: $12.00

The legion of time
Jack Williamson

from: $56.00

Moon of Three Rings
Andre Norton

from: $86.00

T18 Tarzn & Leoprd Men
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Out of Stock

The Machineries of Joy
Ray Bradbury

from: $28.00

Nova Express
William S. Burroughs

Out of Stock

Literature and Fiction

Last Gentleman
Walker Percy

Out of Stock

A Good Day to Die
Jim Harrison

Out of Stock

Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison

from: $69.00

Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka

Out of Stock

A Fine and Private Place
Peter S. Beagle

from: $91.00

Wolf: A False Memoir
Jim Harrison

from: $105.00

Hell House (Bantam Horror, N7277)
Richard Matheson

Out of Stock

The Wishing Tree
William Faulkner

from: $28.00

Stranger
Albert Camus

from: $51.00

Dracula
Bram Stoker

from: $28.00

The Black Echo
Michael Connelly

from: $68.00

Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Harry Allard

Out of Stock

Twenty-Four Eyes
Sakae Tsuboi

from: $29.00

Porgy: a Novel
DuBose Heyward

from: $39.00

Barbary shore / by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer

Out of Stock

Repetition
Peter Handke

from: $24.00

Adjustment Day
Chuck Palahniuk

Out of Stock

Cathedral
Raymond Carver

Out of Stock

The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis

from: $28.00

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer

Out of Stock

Modern Library

Vanity Fair (The Modern Library 131.3)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Out of Stock

Life of Michaelangelo Buonarroti
John Addington Symonds

Out of Stock

The Possessed. With translation of the hitherto-suppressed chapter "At Tihon's".
Constance (trans) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Dostoevsky) Garnett

Out of Stock

THE REPRIEVE Modern Library No 381
Jean-Paul Sartre

from: $24.00

Poetry

Gaudete
Ted Hughes

Out of Stock

American Primitive
Mary Oliver

from: $250.00

Wild Iris
Louise Glück

Out of Stock

Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann

from: $68.00

I Shall Not Be Moved
Maya Angelou

Out of Stock

Dearly: New Poems
Margaret Atwood

Out of Stock

Points of Departure: Poems
Miller Williams

Out of Stock

Starting from San Francisco: Poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

from: $13.00

String Light: Poems
C.D. Wright

Out of Stock

THE POETRY OF WAKAYAMA BOKUSUI
H. H.; Bokusui Wakayama Honda

Out of Stock

The collected poems of Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell

from: $72.00

Art of Birds
Pablo Neruda

from: $56.00

Lorine Niedecker Collected Works
Lorine Niedecker

from: $51.00

Staying Alive
David Wagoner

from: $34.00

Children's Books

The Unicorn
Nancy Hathaway

Out of Stock

Little Fur Family Board Book
Margaret Wise Brown

from: $17.00

Mister Penny's Circus
Marie Hall Ets

from: $39.00

Anatole and the Toyshop
Eve Titus

Out of Stock

Swine Lake
James Marshall

from: $15.00

Hardy Boys 17: The Secret Warning
Franklin W. Dixon

from: $20.00

The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

from: $15.00

The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter
Evelyn F. Scott

from: $109.00

The Terrible Troll-Bird
Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

from: $13.00

The Dead Bird
Margaret Wise Brown

from: $43.00

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lewis; Felix Sutton (Adopted and Abridged by) Stevenson

from: $24.00

Belles on their toes
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

from: $21.00

Mister Rogers' Songbook
Fred Rogers

from: $40.00

Billy Whiskers, Popular Edition
Frances Trego Montgomery

from: $24.00

Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket
Charles M. Schulz

from: $14.00

Orlando's Camping Holiday
Kathleen Hale

Out of Stock

A Letter to Amy
Ezra Jack Keats

from: $15.00

Album of Sharks
Tom McGowen

from: $51.00

Sets

10 James Bond Vinage Book Set
Ian Fleming

Out of Stock

Louis L'Amour Western Set
Louis L'Amour

Out of Stock

8 Book Set Goosebumps.
R.L. Stine

Out of Stock

V.C. Andrews lot of 17 books
V.C. Andrews

Out of Stock

Complete Burroughs Mars 1-11 Barsoom 1970's Set (Mars)
Edgar Rice Burroughs; cover art by Gino D'Achille

Out of Stock

The Gum Thief Boxed Set
Douglas Coupland

Out of Stock

Popular History of France from the First Revolution to the Present Time: 1795-1832 3 Volumes
Henri Martin; Illustrator-A. De Neuville; Illustrator-Leopold Flaming; Illustrator-G. Staal; Illustr

Out of Stock

Dune Trilogy Box Set
Frank Herbert

Out of Stock

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