An initial review
You might try Oboz Yellowstone boots. Certain brands trend narrow. Oboz is a new company out of Bozeman Montana. Excellent product and a few models are easy fit for narrow feet. The Oboz Wind River is a NOLS recommended boot. I've got very narrow feet as well and I found the fit of some Oboz shoes to be perfect.
http://www.obozfootwear.com/site/oboz-womens-wind-river.html
Vasque also makes a number of boots in narrow and wide widths.
Then I have to correct you and clarify things a bit. Oboz nor Vasque do not make a narrow boot, but merely a medium-width boot that "happens to run a LITTLE narrow." Definitely not classified officially as a narrow-width boot (must be B-width or less). We have Vasque boots at REI, and I have never had good fitting from them because my foot is low volume coupled with a very short instep.
However, it appears to be problem solved.
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SKINNY-FEET PEOPLE LISTEN UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!
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The problem may be solved now for some of us. You may want to try out work boots instead of hiking boots, but get good-quality ones. It has to do with the way they are cut and fit your feet. Today, on a hunch, I went in to talk to my Red Wing salesman, my go-to for when I have A-AA width customers (when I find this out on the measurement device, I don't even bother fitting them with our shoes and instead send them straight to him). I currently wear a couple of Red Wing hiking boots, though they are not the best fit, but had been the best fit I found in my entire life. One thing I found out about Red Wing boots with glued-on soles - Red Wing will not resole them. They're disposable boots, though I have worn them for around 200 days each pair per year for near-four years. Not these, as they are welt-stitched with the stitching hidden by a band molded to the top outside edge of the outsole. These, RW will resole them for you and recondition the leather (they won't replace damaged leather uppers, though) for about a third of the cost of new boots. I first tried on a pair of B-width men's work boots and then the women's version. I wanted to try the men's first because I had never tried men's boots before. It didn't work, as it was too big, even when adjusted for men-women size conversion. I tried on the women's version, and presto! It seems to be solved! These are women's Red Wing model no. 2326, available in different widths, only up to size 10, though!
http://www.redwingshoes.com/productdetails.aspx?prodid=1182
I tried them on just to see what would happen. It was like magic! They fit just like in the photo! No puckering in front of the tongue base. A good fit from just behind the ball of the foot, all around the foot's body including the arch, and the instep. They fit like a GLLLOOOVE (like Ace Ventura says it after parking the truck)! I mean they really do! They are not gore-tex, so these should breathe a bit more than my other boots. I was VERY surprised! I had never seen a normal tongue distribution on hiking boots on my feet before as show below!
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I'm wearing them as I type in order to break them in. Occasionally, I'll get up and walk around for a couple of minutes. There are no pressure points, just pressure across the top of the foot, and once in a while, I'll loosen the laces across that area to relieve some of the pressure. It's odd and completely opposite of what I usually have to do, which is cinching them up beyond puckering at the tongue base in front of the laces. There is very little heel lift (a little is okay), and definitely no toe contact in the toe box, even when I put the foot back and kick the ground toe straight down. There's plenty of wiggle room in the toe box. The outsole doesn't have quite the aggressive tread that the hikers do, BUT my camping style and work schedule allows me to skip rained out camping trips and reschedule them to dry days within a week or two. I do NOT like to camp when it's raining (no-no for my hearing aids). Plus, I'm not a backpacker, but do like to have the support for long day hikes.
To complete today's story, I recalled that I still had a pair of the RW hiking boots brand-new in the box in storage from the day I bought them over 3 years ago (I have a habit of buying extra pairs in case they go extinct, and as soon as I prove these out positively, I will be buying two more pair so that I always have something to wear when one pair is being resoled), so I asked if there was any way that I could return them in exchange for these, and I would be willing to pay the difference. They said yes, since they had my name and transaction record on file. It turned out to be an even exchange, and they even threw in black shoe cream for my old boots for free! This is awesome customer service. That is how you stay in business after all these years!
It seems like these are a good fit!