Front Street Books is an independent bookseller serving Alpine and Marathon, Texas and the Big Bend area. We carry a large and growing inventory of general interest titles, with an emphasis on Regional subjects for Texas and the Big Bend, Natural History, Children's, Fiction, Literature, and Texana.

We're an independent dealer offering a wide range of new, out-of-print and collectible books for people of diverse interests and needs. We stock a comprehensive collection of travel information and natural history of the Big Bend region, as well as many titles on regional history and the ranching tradition.

In a mail-order world, our dedication to service is an important part of who we are. If we don't have what you want in stock, we get it, fast. Searches for collectible, used, or out-of-print titles and special orders for new titles are a priority. We mail or ship orders anywhere, with convenient, hassle-free terms, including PayPal and all major credit cards.

Featured Titles

One Ranger Returns

By H. Joaquin Jackson
with James L. Haley
In Joaquin Jackson’s One Ranger (2005), readers thrilled to Jackson’s stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border—and clamored for more. Now in One Ranger Returns, Jackson reopens his case files to tell more unforgettable stories. (February 2008, 240 pages, 30 b&w photos
isbn 978-0-292-71626-1, $24.95, hardcover)

Custer's Brother's Horse

Tex-centric writer Bud Shrake presents a multi-layered drama that veers from hilarity to sudden violence, with a colorful cast of players acting out their stories in the aftermath of the Civil War in Texas. (John M. Hardy Pub., Full Cloth, $24.95)

Alpine

121 & 201 E. Holland Ave.
Alpine, Texas 79830
432/837-3360
Fax: 432/837-1126

Marathon

next to the Gage Hotel
P.O. Box 145
Marathon, Texas 79842
432/386-4249