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He deadline for the Kirkpatrick Prize for Colorado book collectors under the age of 30 is nearing.

His homepage reads: "There are things that go bump in the night. We bump back."

How do you vanquish evil entities? For this Denver exorcist, the devil is in the details

Photographers were out in force this past weekend to capture a rare solar eclipse which momentarily created a "ring of fire" in the sky.

Spend your weekend hunting down your next five-star read at one of these charming, local lit lairs around Denver and beyond.

Golf's never made me feel good -- "klutzy" is more the word --but that isn't true for everyone. One of our friends from the St. Francis apartments for the A Bookseller's Diary, forgetting bad habits

I got a call Monday that has bothered me since. A woman I'd bought some books from called and angrily said, "I sold you some first editions. You gave me $3 apiece, and I want to know what you sold them for." I told her if I paid her $3, I would price the book at $9 or $10.

There is a certain macabre joy that comes from discovering a hidden treasure among a dead person’s items. For whatever reason there is also some romanticism associated with those that do so in a “respectful” way. Archaeologists are viewed with both the swagger of Indiana Jones and the childhood wonder of discovering unknown cities, palaces and riches. Booksellers too hold a unique and attractive role to those of us who often get lost in a good story.

We feel Denver's population boom at Printed Page. Today, we had customers from Massachusetts, Alabama, New York, California and Kansas, all new to the city.

A daughter asked me to come look at the books from her mother's estate. When I got there, the family was busy cleaning up the house to get it ready for sale.