It has taken me a lifetime to put together this book collection. It has heavy emphasis on Diamonds, Quartz, Mining, Igneous Rock Petrology/Petrography, Mineralogy, and Crystallography. When possible, these prices have been referenced to Amazon.com prices and discounted a few dollars. Contact me by email (jmichaelhoward@sbcglobal.net) with those you are interested in (Titles and Box #s, Please!) and I will determine shipping costs to your zip code and email you TOTAL costs via USPS. Payment by check or Paypal per my email address ONLY. Shipped upon receipt of payment ONLY. Personal checks must clear bank first (5 days). NO OVERSEAS SALES PLEASE!
Rocks & Minerals mag., Herkimer Diamonds & CO fossils issue, V.64, No.2, March/April 1989. Price - $9.00
De Re Metallica, Agricola, Translated by Hoover, Dover Paperback, 1950. Price - $12.50
A Pictorial History of American Mining, Sloane, 1970, Crown Publ., 742p., dust jacket. Price - $10.00
Nat’l Geog mag, Mt. St. Helens issue, V.159, No.1, 1981. Price - $6.00
Zion Park Region, USGS Prof Paper 220, rebound with some water staining but all legible, 200p. Price - $20.00.
Fire in the Hole – Miner’s Stories, Dolph, 1994, WSU Press, 174p. Price - $40.00
Continents in Collision, Russell Miller, 1985, Time-Life Books, 176p. Price - $5.00
Fire Mountain – Eruptions of Mt. St. Helens, Boly, Portland OR, 74p., dust jacket. Price - $15.00
Guidebook to the Geology of Meteor Crater, Arizona, Shoemaker & Kieffer, 1978, AZ S U – Tempe, 66p. Price - 65.00
Earthquake, Bryce Walker, 1984, Time-Life Books, 176p. Price - $3.00
Photocopy of Atlas der Krystallformen von Victor Goldschmidt, 1916, Diamond forms, >20 pages, Price - $3.00
Cosmic Impact, Davies, 1986, London, 197p. Price - $10.00
How to Know the Rocks and Minerals, Helfer, 1970, 228p. Price - $12.00
Gem Trails of Texas, 5th ed., Simpson, 1973, 80p. Price - $6.00
The Tectonics of Middle North America, King, 1951, New Jersey, 203p. dust jacket Price - $20.00
Roadside Geology of Texas, Sheldon, 1982, 182p. Price - $8.00
Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons, Powell, 1961 ed., Dover Press, 400p. paperback Price - $5.00
The Complete Guide to Micromounts, Speckels, 1965, 97p. Price - $30.00
Western Gem Hunters Atlas, Johnson, 1976, 79p. Price - $10.00
South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Webb, 1984, 41p. Price - $6.00
Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals, Pough, 4th ed., 1976, Petersen Field Guide #7, Paperback Price - $5.00
Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Rocks & Minerals, 1978, Fireside Books, 607p. paperback Price - $5.00
Natl Geog mag., Crowning of the Shaw of Iran, 1968, V. 133, No.3 Price - $9.00
The Kimberlites & Lamproites of Western Australia, Taques and others, 1986, Perth, Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 132, bound photocopy Price - $25.00
Gold! Gold! Gold! The Johannesburg Gold Rush, Rosenthall, 1970, MacMillian Publ, 372p. dust jacket Price - $5.00
“Primary” Diamond Deposits – What controls their size, grades and location, Heldstaedt, 1992, 91p. Price - $20.00
Summary Report Selected Mineral Commodity Assessment, Subequitorial Africa, Sept 1991, USBM, 44p. Price - $15.00
Gold!, 1982, Mineralogical Record mag., V. 13,No. 6, 90p. slight top cover damage Price - $65.00
Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa, Innes, 1984, 358p. paperback Price - $30.00
Karroo Dolerites of the Union of South Africa, Walker & Poldevaart, 1949, GSA Bull., Vol. 6, p.591-706, hardbound reprint. Price - $8.00
Geology of the Diamantiferous Region of the Province of Parana, Brazil, Derby, English version reprint Amer. Phil. Soc., 1879, 7p. Price - $15.00
Kimberlites and their Xenoliths, Dawson, 1980, Springer Verlag, 252p. Price - $80.00
The Story of Diamonds, Austin & Mercer, 1941, GIA, 96p. Hard cover damaged. Text legible. Price- $4.00
The Book of Diamonds, Dickinson, 1965, 226p. dust jacket. Price - $6.00
A History of South Africa, L. Thompson, 1990, Yale Univ Press, 228p. Price - $15.00
The Geology of Africa, Furon, 1963, 377p. dust jacket Price - $100.00
West African Diamonds 1919-1983, Greenhalgh, 1985, 306p. Price - $70.00
Kimberlites and Diamonds, University of Western Australian Pub. No. 5, 109p. hardbound Price - $40.00
Diamonds and Gold of South Africa, H. Mitchell, 1888, 109p. hardbound Price - $20.00
Petrology of Lamproites, Mitchell & Bergman, 1991, Plenum Press, 447p., hardbound Price - $150.00
The Rise and Fall of Diamonds, Epstein, article in Book Digest mag., June 1982 Price - $4.00
Natl Geog mag, Diamond, the Incredible Crystal, Jan. 1979 2 copies Price - $8.00 each
The Diamond Shield, Porter, 1929, 154p. Hardbound Price - $70.00
E & MJ mag issue, Aug. 2000, V 201 No. 8, Millinium Diamonds from Namibia Price - $15.00
Diamonds, Bruton, 1978 2nd ed., 532p. hardbound, dust jacket Price - $10.00
Kimberlites, Mineralogy, Geochemistry & Petrology, Mitchell, 1986, Plenum Press, hardbound Price - $160.00
The Diamond Diggers, Herbert, 1972, 138p. Hardbound dust jacket, Price - $4.00
The Rise and Fall of Diamonds, Epstein, 1982, 301p. Hardbound dust jacket Price - $5.00
Ancient Diamond Time Capsules, Secrets of Life and the World, Melton, 1985, 166p. Price - $10.00
The Mineral Kingdom, Desautels, 1968, Ridge Press, 251p. Hardbound dust jacket, Price - $5.00
The Diamond Magnates, Roberts, 1972, 335p. Hardbound dust jacket . Price - $5.00 The Diamond Makers, Hazen, 1999, Cambridge Press, 244p. Price - $10.00 Diamonds Eternal, Agenzio, 1974, 290p. Price - $5.00 Diamond, Hahn, 1956, Hardcover dust jacket Price - $4.00 The Last Empire, Kanfer, 1993, 409p. Hardbound dust jacket Price - $10.00 Rough Diamonds, A Practical Guide, 1998, Nizan Peters, 172p. Hardbound dust jacket, autographed by author. Price - $20.00 A Key to Precious Stones, Spencer, 1971, 237p. Hardbound dust jacket . Price - $35.00 Pro-Am Guide, Tumble-Grind Tumble-Polish, 1972, 30p. Price - $4.00 Aborigines and Diamond Mining, Dixon & Dillion, 1990, 196p. Price - $100.00 Famous Diamonds of the World, Shipley, 1955 GIA, 61p. Price - $12.00 Min. Record mag, Australia! Damaged cover, 1988 Price - $25.00 Arkansas Bandits, etc, Carole Marsh, 1995, kids book, 35p. Price - $15.00 The Buyers Guide (for Quartz), Hersh, 2001, 117p. Price $50.00 Crystal Chemistry and Refractivity, Jaffe, 1988, Dover Press, 335p. Price - $7.00 Color Crystals and Light, Wood, 1977, 155p. 2 copies, Price - $4.00 each Crystals and Crystal Growing, Holden & Morrison, 1995, MIT Press, 318p. Price - $4.00 Crystal Growth in Gels, Henisch, 1970, Dover Press, 111p. Price - $6.00 Examination and Valuation of Mineral Property, Baxter & Parks, 4th ed., 1957, 507p. Price - $15.00 Mining Explained, Northern Miner Press, LTD., 264p. Price - $10.00
The Visual Dictionary of the Earth, D. Kindersley Press, 1993, 64p. Price - $25.00 Diamonds, Jacques LeGrand, ed., 1980, Crown Publ., 287p. Price - $25.00 Photographing Minerals, Fossils, & Lapidary Materials, Scovil, 1996, Geosciences Press, 224p. Price - $130.00. The Nature of Diamonds, Harlow, 1998, Cambridge Press, 278p. Price - $70.00 Rough Diamonds Internal & External Features, Peters, 1997, pages unnumbered. Price - $38.00 Southby’s – The Magnificent mineral collection of Joseph A. Freilich, 2001, New York, catalog of minerals for sale, excellent color images, and estimated values (which were way too high), 226p. Price - $35.00 Bull. GSA reprint – Coronas and Coronites, 1945, initialed by author Price - $6.00 Bull. GSA reprint – The Relationship of Secular Rock – Disintegration to certain transitional crystalline schists, Pumpelly 1891, signed by author! Price $28.00 Metamorphism, Harker, 1939, London, 362p. Price - $8.00 Principles of Economic Geology, Emmons, 1918, 606p. Price - $75.00 Optical Mineralogy, Rogers & Kerr, 1942, McGraw-Hill, 390p. Price - $10.00
Petrography, A descriptive petrography of the Igneous Rocks, Johannsen, 1931, 1969 printing, 4 Volume set! V. 1-318p., V.2-428p., V.3-360p., V.4-523p. Price - $90.00 The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, G.F. Kunz, 1913, Lippincot Co. Publishers, 406p. Price - $100.00 A Key for the Determination of Rock-Forming Minerals, Johannsen, 1908, 1st ed., 1st 1000 printed, Scientific Press, 542p. Price - $38.00 An Introduction to the Methods of Optical Crystallography, Bloss, 1961, 294p. Price - $10.00 Manual of Mineralogy, Dana Hurlbut, 15th ed., 1947, Wiley & Sons, 480p. Price - $10.00 Dana’s Manual of Mineralogy, Ford, 1912, 13th ed., 460p. Price - $40.00 A Textbook of Mineralogy, Dana, 1906, Wiley & Sons, 593p. Price - $25.00
Amphiboles, Ernest, 1968, Springer Verlag, 125p. Price - $15.00 Determinative Mineralogy and Blowpipe Analysis, Brush and Penfield, 15th ed., 1899, 312p. Price - $10.00 The Study of Rocks in Thin Section, Moorhouse, 1959, Harper, 514p. hardbound dust jacket Price- $8.00 Crystals and Crystal Gardens You Can Grow, Stangl, 1990, 64p. Price - $20.00 Direct methods in Crystallography, Woolfson, 1961, Oxford Press, 141p. Price -$30.00 Thermodynamics of Rock-Forming Crystalline Solutions, Saxena, 1973, Springer Verlag, 188p. Price - $45.00 Determinative Mineralogy, Lewis, 1921, Wiley & Sons, 298p. Price - $18.00 Glossary of Mineral Species 1991, Fleischer & Mandarino, Wirebound, 296p. Price - $15.00 Mineral Tables, Eakle & Pabst, 1938, Wiley & Sons, 73p. Price - $10.00 Roadside Geology of Washington, Alt & Hyndman, 1998, 13th printing, 288p. Price - $10.00 Roadside Geology of Oregon, Alt & Hyndman, 1998, 14th printing, 278p. Price - $20.00 Handbook of Ancient Greek & Roman Coins, Llawans, 1995, Whitman Guidebook, 288p. Price - $7.00
Photocopy of Precious Stones, Max Bauer, Vol. I & II, New York, Dove, 1968 reprint edition, V.I – 260p., V. II – 627p. perfectly legible copy on 8.5 X 14 paper. Price $35.00 Feldspar Minerals, J.V. Smith, 2 Vol. set, V-1 – 627p., V. II – 690p. dust jacket hardbound Price - $125.00 Manual of Determinative Mineralogy, Warren, 1910, MIT, 140p., Price $25.00 Mantle Metasomatism and Alkaline Magmatism, GSA Special Paper 215, 1987, 383p. Price - $15.00 Color Treasury of Crystals, De Michele, 1972, Crown Pub., 80p. Price - $3.00 Rockhounding and Earth-Science Activities in Oklahoma, 1995 Workshop, Johnson & Suneson, eds., OGS Special Paper 96-5, 139p. Price - $24.00 Chronicle of the Roman Emperors, Scarre, 1995, Thames and Hudson LTD., 240p. Price - $12.50 The Roman Emperors, Grant, 1985, Barnes & Noble, 367p. Price - $5.00 The Origin of Crystalline Rocks, Hunt, 1884, paper cover poor condition, entire text readable, Montreal, 67p. Price - $20.00
The Mineral Kingdom, Desautels, 1968, Ridge Press, 251p. Hardbound dust jacket, Price $5.00 Encyclopedia of Minerals, Robert, Rapp, Webber, 1974, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 693p. dust jacket Price - $40.00 Snow Crystals, Bentley and Humphreys, 1962, Dover Press, 225p. Price - $6.00 Thin Section Mineralogy, Rogers and Kerr, 1933, McGraw-Hill, 1st edition, 311p. Price - $6.00 Optical Mineralogy, Wahlstrom, 1943, Wiley and Sons, 206p. Price - $10.00 The Story of Diamonds, Milne, 2000, Linnett Books, 113p. dust jacket Price - $6.00 South Africa’s City of Diamonds, Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867-1895, Worger, 1987, Yale Univ Press, 330p. dust jacket Price - $6.00 Diamonds Eternal, Agenzio, 1974, 290p. Price $5.00 Hidden Attraction – The Mystery and History of Magnetism, Verschuuk, 1993, Oxford Press, 256p. Price - $10.00 Barren Lands, Krajick, 2001, Holt and Co., 442p. Author signed complimentary copy to JM Howard (me) Price - $30.00 Smithsonian Scientific Series No. 3, Minerals from earth and sky, Merrill and Foshag, 1929, 331p. Collectors ed., box cover Price - $45.00 Rocks and Rock Minerals, Pirsson and Kampf, 1948, Wiley and Sons, 349p. signature of G.W. Colton Price - $10.00
Dana’s New Mineralogy, Gaines and others, 1997, Wiley and Sons, 1819p. Price - $370.00 Dana’s Textbook of Mineralogy, Ford, 1945, 7th printing, Wiley and Sons, 851p. damaged cover, Price - $27.50 GSA Memoir 28 – Origin of Granite, Gilluly, 1948, reprint 1953, Edwards Bros., 139p. Price - $8.00 GSA Memoir 47 – Interpretation of Aeromagnetic Maps, Vacquier, et. al., 1951, Waverly Press, 151p. Price - $5.00 GSA Memoir 45 – Interpretation of Ore Textures, Bastin, 1951, Waverly Press, 101p. Price - $12.00 GSA Memoir 73 – Metamorphic Reactions and Metamorphic Facies, Fyfe, Turner, Verhoogen, 1958, reprint 1962, New York Lithography, 259p. Price - $12.00 GSA Memoir 74 – Origin of Granite in light of experimental studies, Tuttle and Bowen, 1958, reprint 1960, Waverly Press, 153p. Price - $20.00 GSA Memoir 48 – North American Geosynclines, Kay, 1951, reprint 1971, Waverly Press, 143p. Price - $20.00 Minerals and How to Study Them, Dana and Hurlbut, 1949, 3rd ed., Wiley and Sons, 323p. Price - $5.00 Determination of the Opaque Minerals, Farnham, 1931, 1st edition, McGraw-Hill, 236p. Price - $32.00 Elements of Crystallography and Mineralogy, Wade and Mattox, 1960, Harper Bros., 332p. Price - $15.00 Kimberlites, Mitchell, 1986, 2nd printing 1989, Plenum Press, 442p. Price - $160.00 Mineralogy, Berry and Mason, 1959, W.H. Freeman and Co., 630p. Price - $10.00 The Alkaline Rocks, Sorensen , ed., 1974, Wiley and Sons, 622p. Price - $140.00 The Mantle Sample: Inclusions in Kimberlites and Other Volcanics, Boyd, O.A. Meyer, eds., 1979, AGU, 424p. Price - $45.00 Economic Mineral Deposits, Bateman, 1942, Wiley and Sons, 898p. Price - $10.00 Elements of Optical Mineralogy Part 1, principles and methods, Winchell, 1937, 5th edition, Wiley and Sons, 262p. Price - $45.00 Determinative Mineralogy, Lewis and Hawkins, 1931, Wiley and Sons, 254p. Price - $10.00
Krustallos A story of Quartz, Miller, no date (early 1950s?), Miller Laboratories, New Jersey, USA, 35p. Numerous unusual images including mining of optical quartz in Brazil and an image of a quartz crystal with many wafer orientation for various applications by Bell Labs. Price - $60.00 Theoretical Petrology, Barth, 1952, Wiley and Sons, 387p. Price - $10.00 Elements of Optical Mineralogy, Winchell, 3 Vol. Set , 1937, Wiley and Sons. Price – $100.00 V. I – Principles and Methods, 5th ed., 263 p. V. II – Descriptions of Minerals, 3rd ed., 459p. V. III – Determinative Tables, 2nd ed., 231p.
The Properties of Silica, Sosman, 1927, American Chem. Soc., Chemical Catalog Co., 856p. Price - $90.00
Dana’s System of Mineralogy, Vol. III, Silica Minerals, 7th ed.,, Frondel, 1962, 334p. Price – $40.00
Crystallization Processes under Hydrothermal Conditions, Lobachev, 1973, Translated from Russian, 255p. Price – $32.00
Principles of Mineralogy, Dennen, 1960, Ronald Press, 453p. Price - $16.00
System of Mineralogy, Dana, 1854, G. P. Putnam and Co., 534p. Rebound, heavily foxed, but tight binding, good work copy, entirely legible, missing no pages. Price - $325.00
Mineral Digest, complete 8 volume set, this magazine was printed quarterly during 1972-73, the Volumes are bound in two hardbound books, V. 1-4 & 5-8. This was done because the perfect binding of individual volumes was bad and when opened the pages often became loose and fell out. These bindings are tight and in like new condition. All pages of all volumes are present and in excellent condition. Published by Mineral Digest LTD of NY, NY. Some of the best color photography of minerals, fossils, gemstones, and jewelry ever published. Interesting articles relating to stones, minerals, and fossils, along with short fiction stories with same as topics. Printed index to each set within front cover of both bindings as there was no front index to each issue. A rare magazine find. Price for SET ONLY - $ 100.00 COMPLETE SET IS HARD TO FIND, ONLY A FEW INDIVIDUAL ISSUES LISTED ON AMAZON.COM
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