Guidebooks you've willingly overpaid for?

Cigdem Awrote:

Please PM if you are willing to sell this book to me. I'll gladly pay good money. Thanks!

My partner and I once drove all the way from Madison to the Needles before realizing I forgot the guidebook. 

spent an excessive amount of money on the second edition of “The Climbers Guide to North Carolina” as a christmas present for my partner. worth every penny

Cochise west. looked everywhere for that guide and The store I finally bought it at had no idea what the price was. I said that it was like 18 or something and we called it good. Closer inspection showed the price to be more in the range of 30. Had such a great time and went back to give that vendor an extra 15.

I paid north of $100 for Brad Johnson's Peru guidebook.  It' coffee table climbing porn and worth every penny 

Olivia Pendaswrote:

Huey’s Ten Sleep guidebook. Absolutely legendary.

That guidebook has character.

Heimowitz's EPC guide.  More interesting for the rants than useful for the guide-book information.

Spent a few dollarydoos on this one

Steven Rwrote:

Spent a few dollarydoos on this one

I found a copy of this at a used book store in Tacoma. Picked up this an a 93’ edition of select climbs of the cascades. 

Dave Cramerwrote:

The third edition can be found for a miserly $60 or so, but the 4th currently is available for a bargain of $344.

Creek Freak. What a gem.

I thought I overpaid for Art Gran's gunks guide...

Then I saw what they go for.  Felt better.  Ran into another one at a decent price now I got two...you know, in case someone has something to trade...ha ha.

A guide I'm on the hunt for:

Pretty proud of this one 

A clean copy of Bjornstad's original "Desert Rock", 1988. History of a pioneering generation. A present to myself.

BrokenChairs 88wrote:

I found a copy of this at a used book store in Tacoma. Picked up this an a 93’ edition of select climbs of the cascades. 

Someone left me a copy of that at the Castle Rock trailhead signboard years ago, woefully out of date but of historical interest. Even back then tho they kept their sandbags at the ready, Angel crack 5.7 and Damnation 5.8.

It would be interesting to retake that cover shot, tree growth has made it to where I doubt you would see across the valley.

Ditto on the Art Gran book, although I waited a long time to find one at a “good price”. Lately I’ve seen them go for waaay too much… on the flip side, there are books I’ve paid just a few dollars for, so it all nets out. 

Dave Cramerwrote:

This is the most ridiculously priced guidebook I’ve ever seen. That being said I even bought will gadds app but after having borrowed this guidebook from a friend for a trip to Canmore, I see why it’s so highly sought after and would pay a hefty premium for this. 

In the 1960s I paid $7 for  a new 1934 first edition of "Guide to the High Sierra and the John Muir Trail " by Walter A. Starr Jr  at the great Holmes Bookstore in Oakland ,Ca . It contains a wonderful map of the range before most dams and reservoirs .  I later meet Doug Robinson in the 1970s just after he had edited & updated an edition for the Sierra Club and he said that he had never seen one. $7  paid for about 2-1/2   tanks of gas for my 1965 VW back than .

Gerald Adamswrote:

In the 1960s I paid $7 for  a new 1934 first edition of "Guide to the High Sierra and the John Muir Trail " by Walter A. Starr Jr  at the great Holmes Bookstore in Oakland ,Ca . It contains a wonderful map of the range before most dams and reservoirs .  I later meet Doug Robinson in the 1970s just after he had edited & updated an edition for the Sierra Club and he said that he had never seen one. $7  paid for about 2-1/2   tanks of gas for my 1965 VW back than .

sounds like you were in the good old days

this thing is 2.9K at the moment. too bad the authors likly wont see any of that..

www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933009136/ref=ox_sfl_cart_mbc_s2?smid=&psc=1

Those overpriced books on Amazon are a money laundering scam.