The Return of Tarzan

by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Description: Fair. No Dustjacket. Some general wear to covers. A good reading copy. Read More

Bugling the Elk

by Black, Debra S.

Description: Like New. Size: 96x4x144; The story of a family's annual trek to the Dinosaur National Monument to hear the elk bugle! This year, the grown-ups give into the pleadings of the youngest child to join the fun. Read More

A Little Seashore Book: a Skyway of Geese

by Martin, Bill

Description: Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. A lovely little work on the life and natural history of the canada goose. Bill Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) was an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet. His more than 300 books, among them the bestselling classics Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See; Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear; Panda Bear Panda Bear What Do You See; and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, are a testament to his ability to speak directly to children. Read More

The Dog Master: a Novel of the First Dog

by Cameron, W Bruce

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf--a friendship that changed mankind forever. Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and prey. No stranger to the experiences that make us ... Read More

Truth in American Fiction: the Legacy of Rhetorical Idealism

by Gabler-Hover, Janet

Description: Like New in Very Good jacket. The dustjacket is in Very Good+ condition. "Unlike current deconstruction readings of early American literature that assert the relativity of language and of moral vision. Janet Gabler-Hover's Truth in American Fiction contends that most of the major novelists of 19th-century American consciously discriminated in their works between the moral and immoral use of language. They could be confident that their reading public understood this moral discrimination largely ... Read More

Little Eskimo Hunter

by Tolboom, Wanda Neill. Illustrated By Torson Gide

Description: Good. No dustjacket. An x-library copy. A good reading copy, with usual library markings. The story of the boy Sala, who learns the ways of the hunter from his father and grandfather. Tolboom was a teacher and lived in the Canadian Arctic for five years as her husband established a career with the Hudson's Bay Company. Up north, Wanda started to put pen to paper to capture what life in the Arctic was like. Ultimately, she had six books published, including "Arctic Bride" and "People of the ... Read More

Cowboy Say Your Prayers! : a Triple-a Western Classic

by Ermine, Will. Selected, And With An Introduction By Earl Stanley Gardner

Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Some chipping and edgewear to dustjacket. Attractive vintage cover art. Will Ermine was Harry Sinclair Drago (20 March 1887-25 October 1979). He was an American writer of screenplays and Westerns. He also wrote under the names Stewart Cross, Kirk Deming, Will Ermine, Bill Lomax J, Wesley Putnam and Grant Sinclair. Uncommon in hardcover, with dustjacket. Read More

A Century of Dishonor

by Jackson, Helen

Description: Like New in Very Good jacket. Read More

Life With Pickle: Collected Stories That First Appeared in the Fence Post

by Mattingly, J. C.

Description: Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; In Very Good+ condition. Pickle is a farmer, a philosopher, a finagling sort, a deep thinker and a delightful human being. Most of all he is fun. John Mattingly's writing is as full of bounce as an arena full of one-legged clowns in the Country Rodeo on Fourth of July. The man has verve, wit, and perspicacity. He'll make you think, too. These stories are GREAT! One day Pickle is going to be immortal. -John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War. Read More

The Secret Moose

by Rogers, Jean. Illustrated By Jim Fowler

Description: Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 0x6x8; Gift inscription by previous owner. Grade 2-4 This low-key story concerns a boy who secretly helps feed an injured moose near his home in Fairbanks, Alaska. By reading library books, Gerald learns what to feed her and how to interpret some of her gestures. The moose's wound begins to heal, and she gives birth to a calf. Soon the two moose move on, much to Gerald's regret. The text and numerous soft black-and-white pictures nicely convey spring in ... Read More

Remembering the Regiment: the Experiences of a Kenyan Born English Lad in the Continued Fight Against the Terrorism of the Mau-Mau Rebellion

by Gill, Leonard J

Description: Very Good. Size: 6x0x9; Leonard wrote about his experiences growing up in Kenya and serving in the military during the Mau Mau rebellion. Leonard's childhood followed the lines of many small boys, getting into mischief and learning the ways of the world, but against the exotic backdrop of colonial East Africa. In 1950, Leonard returned from college in Ireland and went to work. The following year, the militant anti-British organization, the Mau Mau, launched a campaign against its political ... Read More

Hunter Bunny Learns to Ski

by Weaver, Alexis Rae

Description: Like New in Very Good jacket. Read More

My Life as a Child: From City Streets to the Rugged High Country of Colorado; the Memoirs of Robert (Bob) Child

by Child, Robert (Bob)

Description: Size: 7x5x1; Among other things, Bob Child was a Pitkin County, Colorado Commissioner for many years and was a prominent figure in the Aspen Community. Former Aspen mayor Bill Stirling said of this book of memoirs, Bob Child has captured with insight and reflection the tumultuous, idealistic and exciting Aspen/Pitkin County political scene of the 70's, 80's and 90's. Spiced with wry humor this is a book of tales of a shy kid from Chicago who moved his family from the city to become a cattle ... Read More

Ode to Mustard: Poems & Such

by Smith, Barry. Short Review On Rear Cover By Hunter S. Thompson

Description: Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; In Very Good+ condition. A collection of humorous poems and stories by Aspen Times' humor columnist Barry Smith, with illustrations by Chris Pomeroy. Incredibly accessible, acerbic, wisely sarcastic and laugh-out-loud funny. Read More

The Lone Gambler

by Byers, D. E. L.

Description: Like New. No Dustjacket as Issued. Inscribed by author. The author's life as a wildcatter and mineral lease buyer in the Colorado, Kansas, Montana, and Wyoming Oil fields, and other areas. Photos; 163 pages. Read More

The Best of Humbert Rees

by Rees, Humbert

Description: Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; With brief gift inscription by and signed by author. Claude Humbert Rees (1910-2005) was a 3rd generation rancher and cattleman from Garfield County, Colorado. After retirement, he wrote a column, "This 'n' That" for the Glenwood (Springs) Post for 20 years. He chronicled ranch life and everyday life in the western Colorado when times were simpler. Read More

The Intimate Agenda: Inside the Creative Process

by Edited By Barbara Seidel. Design By Cristin Lazar

Description: Like New. Some examples of work by Patrick Dougherty, Ann Sperry, Peter Stark, Morley Clark, Linda Aroyan, Michael Emmons, and others. "The intimate agenda accesses the mysterious dimension, presenting in word and image the processes, practices and products of seventeen creative individuals: visual artists, an architect, several writers and a musical composer". Read More

Christmas in Aspen

by Sheeley, Jill

Description: Very Good. No Dustjacket as issued. Size: 9x6x0; Includes a story by John Denver, and a Song by Danny Wheetman, who was in John's band. The stories of the families of Aspen, how they came there, and their holiday traditions including songs and recipes. Read More

Guillermo Kuitca: Beds, Theaters & Drawings

by Kuitca, Guillermo

Description: Like New. 5" x 7", 31 pages. A scarce exhibition catalog. Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist, who continues to work and live in Buenos Aires. Kuitca's work has been shown extensively around the globe, and is included in many important public collections, including The Tate Gallery, England; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, ... Read More

The Best of Humbert Rees

by Rees, Humbert

Description: Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; Signed "Humbert Rees". Claude Humbert Rees (1910-2005) was a 3rd generation rancher and cattleman from Garfield County, Colorado. After retirement, he wrote a column, "This 'n' That" for the Glenwood (Springs) Post for 20 years. He chronicled ranch life and everyday life in the western Colorado when times were simpler. Read More

Aspen Climbing Guides Presents Independence Pass West

by Perkins, Tom

Description: Good. Unless you're a movie star, ski bum, or coke addict, the best thing going in the Aspen area is definitely Independence Pass. Independence Pass is an often overlooked but ultra-worthy, granite area, East of town off the super-steep CO Highway 82. The area includes crags between Aspen & Twin Lakes. The Pass is also historic, offering some of Colorado's earlier forays onto steep (5.7) rock, a handful of Henry Barber and Lynn Hill testpieces, from the Golden Era of free climbing, and some of ... Read More

The Best of Humbert Rees

by Rees, Humbert

Description: Like New. Size: 0x0x0; Claude Humbert Rees (1910-2005) was a 3rd generation rancher and cattleman from Garfield County, Colorado. After retirement, he wrote a column, "This 'n' That" for the Glenwood (Springs) Post for 20 years. He chronicled ranch life and everyday life in the western Colorado when times were simpler. Read More

Islands in Heaven

by Meunier, Pamela Santi. Illustrated By Susanne Egan

Description: Like New in Fine jacket. Inscribed and signed by illustrator. Read More

Bonus Pitcher

by Waldman, Frank

Description: Good. Overall a collectable copy of a scarce baseball juvenile series. Non X-library copies difficult to find. Read More

Crystal...What Really Happened

by Neal, Roger A.

Description: Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; In Very Good+ condition. Having spent fifty summers in the ghost town of Crystal, Colorado, Neal describes some of the history of the area and relates stories of his childhood summers there. Read More