Index of Vintage Dinosaur
Books
and other vintage books on prehistoric animals
Revised 9/29/09: added descriptions to
Ages Ago (1896), Tales of the
First Animals (1930), and Ancient Animals (1938).
Revised 9/29/09: added entry for So Long Ago (1946).
Revised 10/2/09: added entry for Discovering Dinosaurs (1960), and On
the Trail of Ancient Man (1926).
Revised 10/16/09: added descriptions to So Long Ago (1946), Discovering
Dinosaurs (1960), and On the Trail of Ancient Man (1926).
Revised 11/1/09: added entry and description for The Golden Play Book
of Animals of the Past Stamps (1954).
Revised 11/12/09: added entries and descriptions for The Mentor:
Prehistoric Animal Life (1917); Fossils: An Introduction to Prehistoric
Life (1962); Dinosaurs: A Junior Golden Guide (1963); and Parade of the
Living, 1930.
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1890's
Extinct Monsters: 1893, by Rev.
H.
N. Hutchinson; ill. J. Smit and others.
Creatures of Other Days: 1896, by Rev.
H. N. Hutchinson; ill. by J. Smit and others.
Ages Ago: 1896, by E. Carrington;
illustrated by Harrison Weir and others.
1900's
Animals of the Past: 1900, by Frederic A.
Lucas;
ill. by Charles R. Knight and James M. Gleeson.
Nebula to Man: 1905, by Henry Knipe; ill. by
J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, Charles Whymper, and others.
Extinct Animals: 1909 (new
edition--original edition published in 1905), by E.
Ray Lankester; uncredited illustrations.
1910's
Extinct Monsters and Creatures of other Days;
1910; ill. by J. Smit and others.
Evolution in the Past: 1912, by Henry R.
Knipe;
ill. by Alice B. Woodward and Ernest Bucknall.
Mighty Animals: 1912, by Jenny Irene Mix; ill.
by
Charles R. Knight, Clement B. Davis, and others.
Mentor: Prehistoric Animal Life, The: 1917,
by William Diller Matthew; ill. by Charles R. Knight.
Origin and Evolution of Life: 1918, by Henry
Fairfield Osborn; ill. by Richard Deckert, Charles R. Knight, and
others.
1920's
World in the Past, The: 1926, by B. Webster
Smith; ill. by W. J. Stokoe.
Earth for Sam, The: 1929, by W. Maxwell Reed;
ill. by various artists.
1930's
Tales of the First Animals: 1930, by Edith B.
Walker; ill. by Jane Banning Bartley.
Parade of the Living: 1930, by John Hodgdon
Bradley, Jr.
Dinosaurs, The: 1934; by W,E. Swinton;
photos of dinosaur models sculpted by Vernon Edwards.
Sinclair
Dinosaur Book, The: 1934, by unknown
author, but revision of manuscript by Barnum Brown;
ill. by James E. Allen
Before the Dawn of History: 1934, by Charles
R. Knight; ill. by author.
Book
of Prehistoric Animals, The:
1935, by Raymond L. Ditmars; ill. Helene Carter.
Parade of Ancient Animals, A: 1936, by
Harald
O. Whitnall; ill. by H. C. Millard.
Life
Long Ago:
1937, by Carroll Lane Fenton; ill. by James E. Allen and Carroll Lane
Fenton.
Animals on the March: 1937, by W. Maxwell
Reed and Jannette M. Lucas; ill. by Charles R. Knight, Margaret
Flinsch, F. L. Jaques, and others.
Ancient Animals: 1938, by W. W. Robinson;
ill. by Irene B. Robinson.
Prehistoric Life: 1939, by Percy E. Raymond;
ill. by Edward A. Schmitz, and others.
Das Reich der Tiere: 1939, by Othenio Abel;
ill. by Franz Roubal, Othenio Abel, Charles R. Knight, and many others.
1940's
When the World was Young: 1941, by Martha
McBride Morrel; ill. by R. E. Falconer
Life
Through the Ages:
1942, by
Bertha Morris Parker; ill.
by Frederick Seyfarth.
Dinosaur Book, The: 1945, by Edwin H.
Colbert; ill. by John C. Germann and others.
So Long Ago: 1946, by E. Boyd Smith; ill.
by author.
Strange
Prehistoric Animals and their Stories: 1948, by A. Hyatt Verrill;
ill. by author.
1950's
Animals of Yesterday: 1952 (first edition
1941), by Bertha Morris
Parker; ill.
by Frederick Seyfarth.
All
About
Dinosaurs:
1953, by Roy Chapman
Andrews; ill. by Thomas W. Voter.
Golden Play Book of Animals of the
Past Stamps, The: 1954, by Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames; ill. by Matthew
Kalmenoff and Robert Gartland.
First Book of Prehistoric Animals, The:
1954, by Alice Dickenson; ill. by Helene Carter.
Dinosaurs: 1954, by Herbert S.
Zim; ill. by
James
Gordon Irving.
Prehistoric World: 1954, by Carroll Lane
Fenton; ill. by James E. Allen and Carroll Lane Fenton.
Dinosaurs: 1955, by Marie Halun Bloch; ill. by
George F. Mason.
Prehistoric Animals: 1956, by Jane Werner
Watson; ill. by Rudolph F. Zallinger and James Lewicki.
Prehistoric Animals: 1956; ill. by
Zdenek Burian (this page also includes images and descriptions from
other books that contain Burian's paleoart).
Prehistoric Animals: 1956, by William E.
Scheele; ill. by author.
Child's
Book of Prehistoric Animals,
A: 1956,
Bruno Frost.
Real Book about Prehistoric Life, The:
1957, By Dorothy Shuttlesworth; Illustrated by Matthew Kalmenoff
Age of Reptiles, The: 1958, by Dorothy
Shuttlesworth; ill. by Matthew Kalmenoff
In the Days of the Dinosaurs: 1959, by Roy
Chapman Andrews; ill. by Jean Zallinger
1960's
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles:
1960, by Jane Werner Watson; ill. by Rudolph F. Zallinger.
Discovering Dinosaurs: 1960, by Glenn O.
Blough; ill. by Gustav Schrotter.
Digging for Dinosaurs: 1960 and 1967
(revised edition), by Edwin H. Colbert and William A. Burns; ill. by
various artists.
Earth for Sam, The: 1960 (revised edition), by
W. Maxwell Reed;
ill. by various artists.
How and Why Wonder Book of Dinosaurs, The:
1960, by Darlene Geis; ill. by Kenyon Shannon.
Dinosaurs:
Their Discovery and Their World:
1961, by Edwin H. Colbert; ill. by various artists.
Prehistoric
Life
on Earth:
1961, by Kai
Petersen
(edited, adapted, and supplemented by Georg Zappler); ill. by Verner
Hancke.
Fossils: An Introduction to Prehistoric Life:
1962, by William H. Matthews; ill by various artisits.
Dinosaurs (Saalfield Science Series):
1962, by John J. Stephens III; ill. by Bette Davis.
Fossils: A Guide to Prehistoric Life: 1962,
by F. H. T. Rhodes, H. S. Zim, and P. R. Shaffer; ill. by Raymond
Perlman.
Dinosaurs:
1963, by Nicholas Hotton III; ill.
by various artists and photographs of models.
Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, The: 1963,
by Anthony Ravielli; ill. by author.
Dinosaurs: A Junior Golden Guide: 1963 (first
edition, 1960), by Brenda Biram; ill. by Rudolf F. Zallinger.
Strange
World of Dinosaurs, The: 1964,
by John H. Ostrom; ill. by Joseph Sibal.
Exciting World of Dinosaurs, The: 1964,
by unknown author; ill. by Matthew Kalmenoff.
Age of Reptiles, The: 1965, by Edwin H.
Colbert; ill. by Margaret Matthew Colbert.
Animals of Long Ago: 1965, by Raymond Jones;
ill. by Hamilton Greene.
Dinosaurs and More Dinosaurs: 1965, by M. Jean
Craig; ill. by George Solonevich.
Wonders of Prehistoric Life, The: 1966, by
Donald Barr, Darlene Geis, and Martin Keen; ill. by various artists.
Dinosaurs: 1967 (first edition, 1962),
by W. E. Swinton; ill. by Neave
Parker.
Age of Dinosaurs, The: 1968, by Bjorn Kurten;
uncredited illustrations.
Day of the Dinosaur, The: 1968, by L.
Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp; ill. by various artists.
1970's
Prehistoric Animals: 1970, by Barry Cox;
uncredited illustrations.
Dinosaurs, The: 1970, by W.E. Swinton; ill.
by Neave Parker.
Life Before Man: 1972, by the
Editors of Time-Life books; ill. various artists.
Other
old books with vintage dinosaur illustrations.
On the Trail of Ancient Man: 1926, by Roy
Chapman Andrews; one illustration by E. Rungius Fulda.
Other more recent books that explore vintage dinosaur books or artwork,
or that contain vintage illustrations of dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Scrapbook, The: 1980, by Donald F.
Glut.
Dinosaurs,
Mammoths, and Cavemen: The
Art of Charles R. Knight: 1982, by Sylvia Massey Czerkas and Donald
F. Glut.
Dinosaurs: an Illustrated History: 1983,
Edwin H. Colbert.
Paleoimagery:
The Evolution of Dinosaurs in Art:
2002, by Allen A. Debus and Diane E. Debus.
History of Paleontology Illustration, A:
2008, by Jane P. Davidson.
Other illustrations
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