I have always loved most things vintage, but I have to define “vintage” in case you happen to be about the age of one of my kids. Vintage for them might be circa 1980 or 1990, and they may think vintage for me would be circa 1880 or 1890. Not so.
- Vintage, by my definition, is back in my day, the 1950s and 60s, or anything before that, but still in the 1900s.
Are we clear? Good!
One of my favorite things is “library trash”. Books that some public libraries throw away as trash because they do not have enough room on their shelves and have to make space for the “new”.
In my dictionary: old books = vintage books.
Of course, if it is left up to chance and you are searching for a specific book, the odds are not in your favor, and you may be waiting a while – wishing and hoping for that particular reading material to end up on the pile. Not all awesome vintage books are tossed by the head librarian.
Fortunately, there is a bookstore called Vintage Books, that has been around since 1954. It is physically located in New York, New York, but thanks to the wonders of information technology, you can peruse their bookshelf online. There are books listed by the usual genres from Art to History to Mystery to Travel. But you might find the selected works categorized in the Vintage Series worth examining. There are 5 different series: Civil War, Classics, Contemporaries, Departures, and International.
Vintage books are priceless additions to your own personal library and are great gift ideas. What is also great is that these published works are not very expensive, come in paperback or hardcover, as well as audiobook format or in the Kindle
(NOTE: Vintage Books is part of the Random House/Knopf Doubleday network of book selling sites.)
Book Selections From the Vintage Series
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The Civil War Dictionary by Mark Boatner
(Vintage Civil War Library)
For almost thirty years The Civil War Dictionary has been the most complete, authoritative, and handy reference book on what has been called the Second American Revolution, 1861-1865.
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
(Vintage Classics)
A young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian. Her in-laws are not amused.
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
(Vintage Contemporaries)
A love story woven into a novel about hopes and dreams, and redefinition of what it means to be American.
Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
(Vintage Departures)
Explorer Christopher Columbus described Cuba as “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen”. 31 writers – poetry, fiction and nonfiction – agree.
Bombay Stories
(Vintage International)
1930s Bombay provided the author with the inspiration for this collection of short stories.
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If you’re gifting vintage books, might as well throw in some vintage bookends and a desk! :)
Decorative Heavy Duty Bookends – Metal Large Book Ends – Vintage Tall Books Stand
NOTE: Content previously published elsewhere on the web, however, the site shut down.
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