Looking for a copy of Rocky Mountain Alpines from 1986 NARGS conference

ABE Books has copies, starting at a whopping $3 (US). 

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=14002588783&searchurl=tn%3DRocky+Mountain+Alpines%26sts%3Dt

Thank you very much, Bob.  I'll pass this info along to the person who is looking.

Sure. You might be surprised at how cheaply you can buy most books. Foster's Rock Gardening, hardcover, five dollars. Even Barr's Jewels of the Plains, thirty dollars. 

Hmmm, I"ll take a look myself...

By the way, mission accomplished for the original request - a suitable (signed!) book was found from ABE!  Thank you!

Suppose you needed a certain back issue of the AGS Bulletin to complete your collection...it would be there. And not expensive. A number of delightful things a very reasonably priced; I have Henry Mitchell's copy of Graham Stuart Thomas's Trees in the Landscape. (Also found GST's Thoughts from a Garden Seat, which I'd never heard of before I found it.)

Just a quick look shows Alf Evans' The Peat Garden and its Plants for three or four dollars; Symons-Jeune's Natural Rock Gardening for $7.77 in fair condition; Clay's The Present Day Rock Garden for two or three dollars, Gabrielson's Western American Alpines, 1932, five dollars.

I found Farrer's My Rock Garden, 1913, for about $20; The English Rock Garden both volumes, $25; Mathew's The Iris, less than $20.

I even found Wiert Nieumann's Rotstuinen in Belgium for not very much at all. 

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Suppose you needed a certain back issue of the AGS Bulletin to complete your collection...it would be there. And not expensive. A number of delightful things a very reasonably priced; I have Henry Mitchell's copy of Graham Stuart Thomas's Trees in the Landscape. (Also found GST's Thoughts from a Garden Seat, which I'd never heard of before I found it.)

Just a quick look shows Alf Evans' The Peat Garden and its Plants for three or four dollars; Symons-Jeune's Natural Rock Gardening for $7.77 in fair condition; Clay's The Present Day Rock Garden for two or three dollars, Gabrielson's Western American Alpines, 1932, five dollars.

I found Farrer's My Rock Garden, 1913, for about $20; The English Rock Garden both volumes, $25; Mathew's The Iris, less than $20.

I even found Wiert Nieumann's Rotstuinen in Belgium for not very much at all. 

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Alf Evans ' The Peat Garden And Its Plants is one of my favourites Bob and has a bit of history with me ..... It was the first time I had come across Chionographis japonica ......seed of which was added to my ever expanding wants list of the time .It appeared years later in one of the seedex's and I was lucky to be allocated seed and raise a plant which is still with me some 16 years later........

Cheers Dave.

It's an excellent book. I acquired my copy back in the days when I thought I needed a peat garden. Not very practical in my climate, since it would have to be irrigated with alkaline tap water ....