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I'd like to see cheap, readable paperback reprints in a similar style to the Dark Horse Little Lulu books (either the black and white or color volumes) that are available in bookstores (again, like the Lulu books).

wow, a pretty interesting discussion has come up out of this query.
my single reason for asking in the first place is that i would ideally like to just read the stories WITHOUT having to resort to paying collector's prices for it. hypothetically, i see no reason why something as unquestionably culturally important as barks' disney ducks shouldn't be available all over the place for relatively low prices. it is shameful to me to only release limited edition runs of books that cost hundreds of dollars when it is obvious that the stories contained with the books have much more of a universal appeal than to just collectors.
since i just want to read the stories, but not necessarily "collect" the super fancy book, it does kind of piss me off that the only way it would be possible to do so would be to pay these over the top prices for a rare book. i can understand why a 1st edition copy of CATCHER IN THE RYE signed by jd salinger might be worth $50,000, but that doesn't really matter because i could go to any used book store and find a copy to read for a dollar. i do not have the same option with the barks library if the only way i can obtain the stories is by paying hundreds of dollars for a limited edition hardback.

Some of the stories in L&T are also available in the two Duck Tales books published by Gemstone. I've annotated those below.

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Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life & Times by Carl Barks includes:

(1) An Appreciation by George Lucas.
(2) "Our Wings Of Ducks" by Michael Barrier.
(3) The Mcduck Philosophy.
(4) Back To The Klondike. (Duck Tales Vol 1)
(5) Trouble From Long Ago.
(6) Tralla La. (Duck Tales Vol 2)
(7) The Seven Cities Of Cibola.
(8) The Lemming With The Locket. (Duck Tales Vol 1)
(9) Land Beneath The Ground! (Duck Tales Vol 1)
(10) The Second-Richest Duck.
(11) Land Of The Pygmy Indians.
(12) Island In The Sky.
(13) The Many Faces Of Magica De Spell.
(14) Micro-Ducks From Outer Space. (Duck Tales Vol 1)
(15) Go Slowly, Sands Of Time.

This book has been a longtime unicorn of all my Duck collecting journey.

When I was a little kid there used to be a bookstore by my grandmother's house. In hindsight it was a dying breed, an independently owned book store inside a brick 19th century building at the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan. One day we visited the store and I saw a the hardcover version of this book, complete with lithograph. Being a child at the time, there was no way I was going to get it. But I never forgot it; I had never seen anything like it. Several years later, at the heart of the Ducktales craze, the Disney Adventures publication had a small article on the trade edition that was coming out. Needless to say, I never found a copy.

Fast forward several years - I'm a pre-teen and other things have taken my I interest. I see the paperback version in a Borders on Long Island. But do I pick it up? No, I'm too embarrassed about what people might think. I regret it almost immediately and spend the next several years searching everywhere for the book - Disneyland, Disneyworld, Borders and Barnes & Nobles throughout the country. Finally, in 1997, when I'm not expecting it, I find a copy in a Borders by my house in Nevada.
Fast forward to college. My girlfriend and future wife accidentally spills water on my book. I minimized the damage but the back 20 pages or so have a wave in the upper right corner.

More than 25 years later I still want a first edition of this book. They show up from time to time on EBay and one of these days a copy will be mine. Finally.

I have the paperback version that I found at an LCS back in the 90's in my early days of collecting Duck comics. It's worth hunting down for anyone who can find a good copy. I just reread Back to the Klondike out of it the other night, such a good story.