Mike's Books (from the library of J. Michael Howard)
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 emailwith those you are interested in (Titles and Subjects, 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 orders, please.
Crystallography
Photocopy of Atlas der Krystallformen von Victor Goldschmidt, 1916, Diamond forms, >20 pages, Price - $3.00
An Introduction to the Methods of Optical Crystallography, Bloss, 1961, 294p. Price - $10.00
Direct methods in Crystallography, Woolfson, 1961, Oxford Press, 141p. Price -$30.00
Diamonds and their Geology, Mining, and Associated Rocks
Natl Geographic Magazine, 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
“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
Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa, Innes, 1984, 358p. paperback Price - $30.00
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
The Rise and Fall of Diamonds, Epstein, 1982, 301p. Hardbound dust jacket Price - $5.00
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
Ancient Diamond Time Capsules, Secrets of Life and the World, Melton, 1985, 166p. Price - $10.00
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
Aborigines and Diamond Mining, Dixon & Dillion, 1990, 196p. Price - $100.00
Famous Diamonds of the World, Shipley, 1955 GIA, 61p. Price - $12.00
Diamonds, Jacques LeGrand, ed., 1980, Crown Publ., 287p. Price - $25.00
The Nature of Diamonds, Harlow, 1998, Cambridge Press, 278p. Price - $70.00
Rough Diamonds Internal & External Features, Peters, 1997, pages unnumbered. Price - $38.00
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
Kimberlites, Mitchell, 1986, 2nd printing 1989, Plenum Press, 442p. Price - $160.00
The Mantle Sample: Inclusions in Kimberlites and Other Volcanics, Boyd, O.A. Meyer, eds., 1979, AGU, 424p. Price - $45.00
Igneous Rock Petrology/Petrography
Nat’l Geog mag, Mt. St. Helens issue, V.159, No.1, 1981. Price - $6.00
Fire Mountain – Eruptions of Mt. St. Helens, Boly, Portland OR, 74p., dust jacket. Price - $15.00
Bull. GSA reprint – Coronas and Coronites, 1945, initialed by author Price - $6.00
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
Mantle Metasomatism and Alkaline Magmatism, GSA Special Paper 215, 1987, 383p. Price - $15.00
The Origin of Crystalline Rocks, Hunt, 1884, paper cover poor condition, entire text readable, Montreal, 67p. Price - $20.00
GSA Memoir 28 – Origin of Granite, Gilluly, 1948, reprint 1953, Edwards Bros., 139p. Price - $8.00
GSA Memoir 74 – Origin of Granite in Light of Experimental Studies, Tuttle and Bowen, 1958, reprint 1960, Waverly Press, 153p. Price - $20.00
The Alkaline Rocks, Sorensen , ed., 1974, Wiley and Sons, 622p. Price - $140.00
Theoretical Petrology, Barth, 1952, Wiley and Sons, 387p. Price - $10.00
Mineralogy
Rocks & Minerals mag., Herkimer Diamonds & CO fossils issue, V.64, No.2, March/April 1989. Price - $9.00
How to Know the Rocks and Minerals, Helfer, 1970, 228p. Price - $12.00
Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals, Pough, 4th ed., 1976, Petersen Field Guide #7, Paperback Price - $5.00
The Mineral Kingdom, Desautels, 1968, Ridge Press, 251p. Hardbound dust jacket, Price - $5.00
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
Optical Mineralogy, Rogers & Kerr, 1942, McGraw-Hill, 390p. Price - $10.00
A Key for the Determination of Rock-Forming Minerals, Johannsen, 1908, 1st ed., 1st 1000 printed, Scientific Press, 542p. Price - $38.00
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
Crystals and Crystal Gardens You Can Grow, Stangl, 1990, 64p. Price - $20.00
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
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
Mineral Tables, Eakle & Pabst, 1938, Wiley & Sons, 73p. Price - $10.00
Color Treasury of Crystals, De Michele, 1972, Crown Pub., 80p. Price - $3.00
The Mineral Kingdom, Desautels, 1968, Ridge Press, 251p. Hardbound dust jacket, Price $5.00
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
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
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
Mineralogy, Berry and Mason, 1959, W.H. Freeman and Co., 630p. 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
Crystallization Processes under Hydrothermal Conditions, Lobachev, 1973, Translated from Russian, 255p. Price – $32.00
Dana’s System of Mineralogy, Vol. III, Silica Minerals, 7th ed.,, Frondel, 1962, 334p. Price – $40.00
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
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.
Mining
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
Fire in the Hole – Miner’s Stories, Dolph, 1994, WSU Press, 174p. Price - $40.00
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
Principles of Economic Geology, Emmons, 1918, 606p. Price - $75.00
Economic Mineral Deposits, Bateman, 1942, Wiley and Sons, 898p. Price - $10.00
Quartz
The Buyers Guide (for Quartz), Hersh, 2001, 117p. Price $50.00
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
The Properties of Silica, Sosman, 1927, American Chem. Soc., Chemical Catalog Co., 856p. Price - $90.00
General Geology Interest
Zion Park Region, USGS Prof Paper 220, rebound with some water staining but all legible, 200p. Price - $20.00.
Continents in Collision, Russell Miller, 1985, Time-Life Books, 176p. Price - $5.00
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
Cosmic Impact, Davies, 1986, London, 197p. Price - $10.00
The Tectonics of Middle North America, King, 1951, New Jersey, 203p. dust jacket Price - $20.00
Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons, Powell, 1961 ed., Dover Press, 400p. paperback Price - $5.00
South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Webb, 1984, 41p. Price - $6.00
Karroo Dolerites of the Union of South Africa, Walker & Poldevaart, 1949, GSA Bull., Vol. 6, p.591-706, hardbound reprint. Price - $8.00
Arkansas Bandits, etc, Carole Marsh, 1995, kids book, 35p. Price - $15.00
The Visual Dictionary of the Earth, D. Kindersley Press, 1993, 64p. Price - $25.00
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
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, G.F. Kunz, 1913, Lippincot Co. Publishers, 406p. Price - $100.00
The Study of Rocks in Thin Section, Moorhouse, 1959, Harper, 514p. hardbound dust jacket Price- $8.00
Handbook of Ancient Greek & Roman Coins, Llawans, 1995, Whitman Guidebook, 288p.Price - $7.00
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
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 copy to JM Howard (me) Price - $30.00
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 48 – North American Geosynclines, Kay, 1951, reprint 1971, Waverly Press, 143p. Price - $20.00
Mineral Collecting
Gem Trails of Texas, 5th ed., Simpson, 1973, 80p. Price - $6.00
Roadside Geology of Texas, Sheldon, 1982, 182p. Price - $8.00
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
The Complete Guide to Micromounts, Speckels, 1965, 97p. Price - $30.00
Western Gem Hunters Atlas, Johnson, 1976, 79p. Price - $10.00
Min. Record mag, Australia! Damaged cover, 1988 Price - $25.00
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
Rockhounding and Earth-Science Activities in Oklahoma, 1995 Workshop, Johnson & Suneson, eds., OGS Special Paper 96-5, 139p. Price - $24.00
Gold
Gold! Gold! Gold! The Johannesburg Gold Rush, Rosenthall, 1970, MacMillian Publ, 372p. dust jacket Price - $5.00
Gold!, 1982, Mineralogical Record mag., V. 13,No. 6, 90p. slight top cover damage Price - $65.00
Lapidary
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
RockhoundingAR.com/ revised April 2011