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Reviews in Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America (older versions of the Reviews were called Short Course Notes)

Most of the books in this series are new. Upon occasion a signature is normally the only mark you will find in any of these. They are exceptionally clean. All are soft bound.

Volume 1 SULFIDES / SULFIDE MINERALOGY, $ 10
Volume 2 FELDSPARS / FELDSPAR MINERALOGY, $ 10
Volume 4 MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF NATURAL ZEOLITES, $ 10
Volume 8 KINETICS OF GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES, $ 10
Volume 9A AMPHIBOLES, AND OTHER HYDROUS PYRIBOLES, $ 10
Volume 9B AMPHIBOLES: PETROLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHASE RELATIONS, $ 10
Volume 11 CARBONATES: MINERALOGY AND CHEMISTRY, $ 10
Volume 12 FLUID INCLUSIONS, $ 10
Volume 14 MICROSCOPIC TO MACROSCOPIC, $ 10
Volume 16 STABLE ISOTOPES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES, $ 10

Mineralogy Books:

Ahrens, T. J., Ed. / AGU REFERENCE SHELF 2: MINERAL PHYSICS AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY - A HANDBOOK OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS, Washington, D. C., 1995, cl, 354 pages, - 1 -, $ 99

Bambauer, H. U., et.al. / OPTICAL DETERMINATION OF ROCK-FORMING MINERALS BY W. E. TRÖGER, PART 1. DETERMINATIVE TABLES, English Edition of the 4th German Edition, Stuttgart, 1979, cl, 188 pages, 3 plates (at end), - 3 -, $ 70

Bassow, H. / CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR MODELS, Oxford, 1968, cl, 213 pages, - 3 -, slight foxing inside the covers and on endplates, $ 24

Battey, M. H. / MINERALOGY FOR STUDENTS, 2nd Edition, London, 1981, pb, 355 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Battey, M. H. / MINERALOGY FOR STUDENTS, New York, 1972, cl, 323 pages, - 1 -, $ 42

Berry, L. G., Mason, B., and Dietrich, R. V. / MINERALOGY, CONCEPTS, DESCRIPTIONS, DETERMINATIONS, San Francisco, 1983, cl, 561 pages, - 3 -, $ 20

Blackburn, W. H. and Dennen, W. H. / PRINCIPLES OF MINERALOGY, 2nd Edition, Dubuque, 1994, pb, 413 pages, - 3 -, $ 40

Borchardt-Ott, W. / CRYSTALLOGRAPHY with 221 figures, Berlin, 1993, pb, 303 pages, - 3 -,$ 28

Brady, J. B., et.al., Ed. / TEACHING MINERALOGY, 1997, spiral bound, 406 pages, - 2 -, $ 45

Brownlow, A. H. / GEOCHEMISTRY, Englewood Cliffs, 1979, cl, 510 pages, 107 figs., 75 tables, answer key to chapter questions, - 2 -, $ 40

Buerger, M. J. / INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTAL GEOMETRY, New York, 1971, cl, 204 pages, - 3 -, $ 30

Buerger, M. J. / ELEMENTARY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: An Introduction to the Fundamental Geometrical Features of Crystals, New York, 1956, cl, 528 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Burke, J. G. / ORIGINS OF THE SCIENCE OF CRYSTALS, Berkeley, 1966, cl, 198 pages, - 3 -, $ 24

Burns, R. G. / MINERALOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF CRYSTAL FIELD THEORY, Cambridge, 1970, cl, 224 pages, - 3 -, $ 45

Carroll, D. / CLAY MINERALS: A GUIDE TO THEIR X-RAY IDENTIFICATION, GSA SP 126, Boulder, 1970, pb, 80 pages, - 3 -, $ 15

Clark, S. P., Jr., Ed. / HANDBOOK OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS, Revised Edition, New York, 1966, cl,587 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Cobb, C. / POCKET DICTIONARY OF COMMON ROCKS AND ROCK MINERALS, Chapel Hill, 1915, cl, 58 pages, - 3 -, $ 16

Correns, C. W. / INTRODUCTION TO MINERALOGY, CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, AND PETROLOGY, 2nd Edition, Translated by W. D. Johns, New York, 1969, cl, 484 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Cotton, F. A. / CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS OF GROUP THEORY, 2nd Edition, New York, 1971, cl, 386 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Deer, W. A., Howie, R. A., and Zussman, J. / AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ROCK-FORMING MINERALS, 3rd Edition, London, 2013, pb, 498 pages, - 1 -, $ 100

de Fourestier, J. / GLOSSARY OF MINERAL SYNONYMS, The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 2, Ottawa, 1999, cl, 434 pages, - 2 -, these are new books with a tiny abrasion or two to the front board or spine, contents mint, $ 50

Dirac, P. A. M. / THE PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, 4th Edition, Oxford, 1987, pb, 314 pages, - 4 -, $ 25

Dietrich, R. V. and Skinner, B. J. / ROCKS AND ROCK MINERALS, New York, 1979, cl, 319 pages, - 1 -, $ 60; another copy, - 3 -, $ 39

Dolbear, S. H., et.al. / INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND ROCKS, AIME, New York, 1949, cl, 1156 pages, vg, $ 35

Donnay, J. D. H. And Nowacki, W. / CRYSTAL DATA: CLASSIFICATION OF SUBSTANCES BY SPACE GROUPS AND THEIR IDENTIFICATION FROM CELL DIMENSIONS, GSA M 60, New York, 1954, cl, 719 pages, - 2 -, $ 55

Donnay, J. D. H. And Nowacki, W. / CRYSTAL DATA: CLASSIFICATION OF SUBSTANCES BY SPACE GROUPS AND THEIR IDENTIFICATION FROM CELL DIMENSIONS, GSA M 60, New York, 1954, cl, 719 pages, - 3 -, $ 40

Dott, R. H. / CARBONATE ROCKS I: CLASSIFICATIONS – DOLOMITE – DOLOMITIZATION, Tulsa, 1972, pb, 237 pages, - 3 -, $ 20 [ AAPG Reprint Series # 4 ]

Egleston, T. / A CATALOG OF MINERALS AND SYNONYMS, Rochester, 1988, pb, 3rd Edition revised, from the original of 1892, 379 pages arranged in columns in the new edition, vg, $ 30

Ehlers, E. G. / OPTICAL MINERALOGY: Volume 1 - Theory and Techniques, Palo Alto, 1987, cl, 158 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Ehlers, E. G. / OPTICAL MINERALOGY: Volume 2 - Mineral Descriptions, Palo Alto, 1987, cl, 286 pages, - 3 -, $ 45

Eitel, W. / STRUCTURAL CONVERSIONS IN CRYSTALLINE SYSTEMS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR GEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, GSA SP 66, New York, 1958, cl, 183 pages, 93 figs., 7 tables, - 3 -, $ 15

Emmons, R. C., Ed. / SELECTED PETROGENIC RELATIONSHIPS OF PLAGIOCLASE, GSA Memoir 52, Baltimore, 1953, cl, 142 pages, - 3 -, $ 10

Evans, R. C. / AN INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY, Cambridge, 1966, cl, 410 pages, - 3 -, $ 20

Ford, W. E. / DANA’S TEXTBOOK OF MINERALOGY with an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy, 4th Edition, Revised and Enlarged, New York, various years, cl, 851 pages, $ 20

Frye, K. / MODERN MINERALOGY, Englewood Cliffs, 1974, cl, 325 pages, - 2 -, $ 20

Gay, P. / THE CRYSTALLINE STATE: An Introduction, New York, 1972, cl, 348 pages, - 3 -, $ 24

Greenwood, H. J. / APPLICATION OF THERMODYNAMICS TO PETROLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS, Toronto, 1977, pb, 231 pages, Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Handbook, Volume 2, - 2 - or - 3 -, $ 30

Gribble, C. D. and Hall, A. J. / A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO OPTICAL MINERALOGY, London,1985, pb, 249 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Grigor’ev, D. P. / ONTOGENY OF MINERALS, Translated from Russian by Y. Brenner, Jerusalem, 1965, cl, 250 pages, - 3 -, $ 49

Heinrich, E. Wm. / MICROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION OF MINERALS, New York, 1965, cl, 414 pages, - 2 -, $ 30

Henderson, G. S., et.al. Ed. / S3: SULFIDES, STRUCTURES, AND SYNCHROTRON LIGHT, A Symposium in honor of Michael E. I. Fleet held in St. Cartharines, Ontario in 2004, In: The Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 43, part 5, 2005, - 2 -, $ 25   [Book contains 24 papers covering crystal structure analysis, mineralogy and geochemistry of platinum-group minerals and associated sulfides and oxides, to high-pressure mineralogy and spectroscopic methods such as electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and assorted synchrontron based techniques]


Holden, A. / THE NATURE OF SOLIDS, New York, 1965, pb, 241 pages, - 2 -, $ 25

Hurlbut, C. S., Jr. and Klein, C. / MANUAL OF MINERALOGY, 19th Edition, New York, 1977, cl, 532 pages, - 2 -, $ 45

Jaffe, H. W. / INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY, Student Edition, New York, 1988, pb, 161 pages, - 3 -, $ 12

Jain, S. C. and Chadderton, L. T. / NONMETALLIC CRYSTALS, London, 1970, cl, 335 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Joshua, S. J. / SYMMETRY PRINCIPLES AND MAGNETIC SYMMETRY IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Bristol, 1991, pb, 270 pages, Graduate Student Series in Physics, - 1 -, $ 25

Kapustin, Y. L. / MINERALOGY OF CARBONATITES, Translated from Russian, New Delhi, 1980, cl, 259 pages, - 3 -, $ 135

Kerr, P. F. / OPTICAL MINERALOGY, 4th Edition, New York, 1977, cl, 492 pages, - 3 -, $ 50

Klein, C. / MINERALS AND ROCKS: Exercises in Crystallography, Mineralogy, and Hand Specimen Petrology, New York, 1989, pb, 402 pages, - 3 -, $ 40 [complete with punch-out models of crystal structures]

Klein, C. and Hurlbut, C. S., Jr. / MANUAL OF MINERALOGY, 20th Edition, New York, 1985, cl, 596 pages, - 3 -, $ 30 [previously owned, but without wear or markings]

Klein, C. and Hurlbut, C. S., Jr. / MANUAL OF MINERALOGY, 20th Edition, New York, 1985, cl, 596 pages, - 1 -, $ 45 [mint condition]

Klein, C. and Hurlbut, C. S., Jr. / MANUAL OF MINERALOGY, 21st Revised Edition, New York, 1993, cl, 681 pages, - 3 -, $ 75 [previously owned with no wear or markings]

MacKenzie, W. S. and Adams, A. E. / A COLOUR ATLAS OF ROCKS AND MINERALS IN THIN SECTION, London, 1994, pb, 192 pages, - 1 -, $ 45

MacKenzie, W. S. and Guilford, C. / ATLAS OF ROCK-FORMING MINERALS IN THIN SECTION, New York, various years from 1984 to 1994, pb, 98 pages, - 1 -, $ 20

Marfunin, A. M. / THE FELDSPARS: PHASE RELATIONS, OPTICAL PROPERTIES, AND GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION, Translated from Russian, Jerusalem, 1966, cl, 317 pages, - 2 -, $ 50

Mason, B. and Berry, L. G. / ELEMENTS OF MINERALOGY, San Francisco, 1968, cl, 550 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Miyawaki, R. / CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF RARE EARTH MINERALS, Rare Earth Society of Japan, Ibaraki, no date, 133 pages <and> 1st supplement, 42 pages <and> 2nd supplement (1989), 12 pages <and> 3rd supplement, 10 pages <and> 4th supplement (1991), 10 pages, - 2 -, $ 45

Morrison, C. A. / CRYSTAL FIELDS FOR TRANSITION-METAL IONS IN LASER HOST MATERIALS, Berlin, 1992, cl, 190 pages, -1 -, $ 50

Mungall, J. E. and Meurer, W. P., Ed. / PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS: PETROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, In: Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 42, part 2, 2004, pb, pages 241 - 694, - 2 -, $ 25 [Contains 29 research papers about the petrology, geochemistry, or mineralogy of deposits of the platinum group elements (PGE); most of these papers were presented at the 9th International Platinum Symposium held in Billings, Montana, in 2002]

Naldrett, A., et.al. / PROGRAM & ABSTRACTS OF THE 18TH GENERAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION, MINERALOGY FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM, September 1 - 6, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland, 316 pages, - 2 -, $ 40

Neese, W. D. / INTRODUCTION TO OPTICAL MINERALOGY, 1st Edition, New York, 1986, cl, 325 pages, - 3 -, $ 30

Neese, W. D. / INTRODUCTION TO OPTICAL MINERALOGY, 2nd Edition, New York, 1991, cl, 335 pages, - 1 -, $ 60

Nickel, E. H. and Nichols, M. C. / MINERAL REFERENCE MANUAL, New York, 1991, pb, 250 pages, - 5 -, $ 15

Nickel, E. H. and Nichols, M. C. / MINERAL REFERENCE MANUAL, New York, 1991, pb, 250 pages, - 3 -, $ 20

Ohtani, E., Ed. /  ADVANCES IN HIGH-PRESSURE MINERALOGY, GSA 421, Boulder, 2007, pb, 237 pages, - 1 -, $ 10

Palache, C., et.al. / THE SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY of James D. Dana and E. S. Dana, Yale University, 1837-1892, New York, 7th Edition Series:

     Volume 1, Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides, clean copy, $ 40 

     Volume 2, Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, $ 40

Parsons, I. / PROGRAM & ABSTRACTS OF THE 19th GENERAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION, EXPANSION TO NANO, BIO, AND PLANETARY WORLDS, July 24 - 28, Kobe, Japan, 350 pages, - 2 -, $ 40

Perkins, D. / MINERALOGY, Upper Saddle River, 1998, cl, 484 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Perkins, D. and Henke, K. R. / MINERALS IN THIN SECTION, Upper Saddle River, 2000, spiral bound, 125 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Phillips, Wm. R. and Griffen, D. T. / MINERAL OPTICS, San Francisco, 1971, cl, 249 pages, - 3 -, $ 15

Phillips, Wm. R. and Griffen, D. T. / OPTICAL MINERALOGY: The Nonopaque Minerals, San Francisco, 1981, cl, 677 pages, - 3 -, $ 40

Phillips, F. C. / AN INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 1st Edition, New York, 1951, cl, 300 pages, - 2 -, $ 20

Phillips, F. C. / AN INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 3rd Edition, New York, 1963, cl, 340 pages, - 3 -, $ 10

Putnis, A. and McConnell, J. D. C. / PRINCIPLES OF MINERAL BEHAVIOUR, Geoscience Texts Volume 1, New York, 1980, pb, 257 pages, - 3 -, $ 29

Schock, R. N., Ed. / POINT DEFECTS IN MINERALS, 1985, cl, 232 pages, AGU, Geophysical Monograph 31, - 3 -, $ 45

Smith, J. V. / GEOMETRICAL AND STRUCTURAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, New York, 1982, cl, 450 pages, - 3 -, $ 30

Smith, O. C. / IDENTIFICATION AND QUALITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF MINERALS, 2nd Ed., Princeton, 1953, cl, 385 pages, - 3 -, $ 20

Tiller, W. A. / THE SCIENCE OF CRYSTALLIZATION: MICROSCOPIC INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA, Cambridge, 1991, pb, 391 pages, - 2 -, $ 45

Uytenbogaardt, W. and Burke, E. A. J. / TABLES FOR MICROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION OF ORE MINERALS, 2nd Edition, Amsterdam, 1971, cl, 430 pages, - 4 -, $ 45

Vanders, I. and Kerr, P. F. / MINERAL RECOGNITION, New York, 1967, cl, 316 pages, - 3 -, $ 40

Werner, A. G. / ON THE EXTERNAL CHARACTERS OF MINERALS, Urbana, 1962, cl, 118 pages, - 3 -, $ 30 [This is a translation from German by A. V. Carozzi of the work of A. G. Werner in 1774 describing the possible ways to define a mineral by its characteristics]

Whitlock, H. P. / THE STORY OF MINERALS, American Museum of Natural History Handbook Series # 12, New York, 1925, cl, 144 pages, 24 figs., 28 photos, - 3 -, $ 22

Williams, R. /  THE GEOMETRICAL FOUNDATION OF NATURAL STRUCTURE, A SOURCE BOOK OF DESIGN, New York, 1979, 265 pages, - 2 -, $ 15  [Dover reprint]



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