Chicago Shell Club Library List
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| 1000 World Sea Shells | A. Gordon Melvin |
| A Biography & Short Biographical Sketch of William Healy Dall | Paul Bartsch, Harald A Rehder & Beula Shields |
| A Childs Book of Sea Shells | William M. Hutchinson |
| A Classification of The Living Mollusca | Kay Cunningham Vaught |
| A Coral Island | Harold Heatwole |
| A Dictionary of Shells (4th edition) | Lula Siekman |
| A Field Guide to the Freshwater Mussels of the Chicago Wilderness | Field Museum |
| A Guide to Cowry Names and Terms | E.L Heiman |
| A Guide to Worldwide Coweries | Felix Lorenz Jr. & Alex Hubert |
| A Sheller’s Directory of Clubs, Books Periodicals & Dealers | Tom Rice |
| American Malacologists | R. Tucker Abbott |
| American Museum of Natural History Guide to Shells: Land, Freshwater & Marine: Nova Scotia to Florida | William Emerson & Morris Jacobson |
| American Seashells (1st edition) | R. Tucker Abbott |
| An Illustrated Guide to Unionid Mussels of Kansas | Karen Couch |
| Art From Shells | Stuart & Leni Goodman |
| Atlas of the Living Olive Shells of The World | Edward Petuch & Dennis Sargent |
| Australian Shells | B.R. Wilson & K Gillett |
| Australian Shells (1st edition) | Joyce Allen |
| Australian Shells (2nd edition) | Joyce Allen |
| Australias Spectacular Cowries | Barry Wilson, Peter Clarkson |
| Beach Shelling in Antigua | Alicia H. Simmons |
| Beneath Cold Seas: Exploring Cold Temperate Waters Of North America | Jeffrey Rotman & Barry Allen |
| Beneath Cold Waters – The Marine Life of New England | Fred Bavendam |
| Between Pacific Tides | Edward Ricketts & Jack Calvin |
| British Bivalves Seashells | Norman Trebble |
| Caribbean Shells | Germaine Warmke & R. Tucker Abbott |
| Collectible Seashells of Southeast U.S., Bahamas and Caribbean | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Collecting Sea Shells | Kathleen Yerger Johnstone |
| Collectors Encyclopedia of The Shells | S. Peter Dance |
| Collector’s Guide to Seashells of the World | Jerome M. Eisenberg |
| Color Treasury of Sea Shells | Sergio Angeletti |
| Compendium of Landshells | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Compendium of Sea Shells | R. Tucker Abbott & Peter Dance |
| Conches, Tibias & Harps | Jerry Walls |
| Cone Shells | Jerry Walls |
| Cone Shells of The World | J. A. Marsh & O. H. Rippingale |
| Contemporary Shell Craft | Gayle Peterson |
| Coral Reefs: Exploring the World Below | Joseph Wallace |
| Corals | Dr. Warren E. Burgess |
| Corals of the World | Elizabeth Wood |
| Coweries of East Sinai | E. L. Heinman |
| Cowries | John Taylor & Jerry Walls |
| Cowries of the World (2nd edition) | C. M. Burgess |
| Cuba: The Landshells Paradise | Adrian Gonzalez Guillen |
| Die Europaischen Meeresmuscheln (Bivalvia) | Fritz Nordsieck (Loose leaf form) |
| Encyclopedia of Sea Shells (English & Spanish Version) | Kenneth Wye |
| Endodontid Land Snails from Pacific Islands (Part 1) | Alan Solem |
| Endodontid Land Snails from Pacific Islands (Part 2) | Alan Solem |
| Eyewitness Handbook Shells | S. Peter Dance |
| Field Guide to Seashells of the World | Gert Linder |
| Field Guide to Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest | Kevin S. Cummings & Christine Mayer |
| Field Guide to Shells of The Atlantic and Gulf Coasts & West Indes 3rd Edition, 1973) | Percy Morris |
| Field Guide to Shells of The Pacific Coast and Hawaii (1st edition) | Percy Morris |
| Field Guide to Shells of The Pacific Coast and Hawaii (2nd edition) | Percy Morris |
| Field Guide to Shells of The Pacific Coast and Hawaii (3rd edition) | Percy Morris |
| Field Guide to the Shells of Our Atlantic Coasts (1st edition 1947) | Percy Morris |
| Field Guide to The Shells of Our Atlantic Coasts (2nd edition 1951) | Percy Morris |
| Florida Marine Shells | C.N. Vilas & N.R. Villas |
| Guide to Australian Shells | Alan Hinton |
| Guide to Shells | A.P.H. Oliver |
| Guide to Shells (Simon & Schuster’s) | Harold Feinberg & Bruno Sabelli |
| Handbook For Shell Collectors (1st edition) | W. F. Webb |
| Hawaiian Sea Shells | Robert Bloom |
| How to Know American Marine Shells | R. Tucker Abbott |
| How to Preserve Animals & Other Specimens in Clear Plastic | Cleo Harden |
| Illinois Mussel Watch (Notebook Form) | Chicago Academy of Sciences (Notebook Form) |
| Indexes to the Nautilus, 1979 | American Malacologists |
| Indo Pacific Mollusks Vol. 1 (in binder form) | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Indo Pacific Mollusks Vol. 2 (in binder form) | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Indo-Pacific Mollusks Vol. 3 (In binder form) | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Introducing Sea Shells | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Jewels from the Ocean Deep | Murray Hoyt |
| Kingdom of The Shell | R. Tucker Abbott (2 Autographed) |
| Let’s Go Shelling | Frances Peabody McKay |
| Let’s Read About SeaShells | Kay Ware |
| Life Along the Seashore | Alan Solem (Autographed) |
| Living Coral | Sandra Romansko |
| Living Corals | Douglas Faulkner & Richard Chesher |
| Living Shells of The Caribbean & Florida Keys | Robert Lipe & R. Tucker Abbott |
| Living Terebras of the World | Twila Bratcher & Walter Cernochorsky |
| Malacologia: Bivalve Studies in The Florida Keys | R. Bieler & P Mikkelson |
| Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America | Myra Keen |
| Marine Mollusks of Grand Cayman Island, British West Indes | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Marine Shells of Northeast Florida | Harry G. Lee (Autographed) |
| Marine Shells of the Pacific | Walter Chernohorsky |
| Marine Shells of the Pacific Northwest | Tom Rice |
| Mollusca : The Southern Synthesis Part B. Fauna of Australia Vol 5 | Alan Solem |
| Mollusca of The Chicago Area Vols. 1 & 2 (bound together) | Frank C. Baker |
| Molluscs: An Introduction to Their Form and Functions | J. E. Morton |
| Mollusks of Florida, Upper Tertiary and …….Of the Peninsula of Florida | W. C. Mansfield |
| Murex Shells of the World | George Radwin & Anthony D’Attillio |
| Mysteries of the Deep | Joseph Thorndike |
| Nautilus: Beautiful Survivor | Wolfgang Grulke |
| New Molluscan Taxa & Scientific writings of Fritz Haas | Alan Solem |
| New Zealand Mollusca, Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells | A.W. B. Powell |
| Ocean Life | Norman & Olga Marshall |
| Olive Shells of the World | Zeigler & Porreca |
| Pacific Sea Shells | Spencer Wilke Tinker |
| Park Ranger Guide to Seashores | Arthur Miller, & Marjorie Miller |
| Pearls: A Natural History | Rudiger Bieler, Landman, Mikkelsen & Bronson |
| Revision Der Gattung Vallonia Risso, 1826 | Dr. Jochen Gerber |
| Sea Beach at Ebb Tide | Augusta Foote Arnold |
| Sea Horses | Lilo Hess |
| Sea Shells of Eastern Arabia | Donald Bosch, S. Peter Dance Robert Moolenbeek |
| Sea Shells of the Texas Coast | Jean Andrews |
| Sea Shells of The World with Values | A. Gordon Melvin |
| Sea Shells of Tropical West America (1st edition) | Myra Keen |
| Sea Shells of Tropical West America From Baja California to Peru (2nd edition) | Myra Keen |
| Sea Shells of Western Europe | Ph Bouchet, F. Danrigal, & C Huygens |
| Sea Treasure: A Guide to Shell Collecting | Kathleen Y. Johnstone |
| Seashell Parade | A. Gordon Melvin |
| Seashell Treasures of the Caribbean | Lesley Sutty & R. Tucker Abbott |
| Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Seashells of the Western Pacific in Color Vol 1 | Tetsuaki Kira & Tadashige Habe |
| Seashells of the Western Pacific in Color Vol. 2 | Tadashige Habe & Tetsuaki Kira |
| Seashells of the World, A Guide to the Better Known Species | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Seashells: A Junior Golden Guide | R. Tucker Abbott |
| Seashores: Guide to Animals & Plants Along the Beaches | Herbert Zim & Lester Ingle |
| Shell Art | Helen Kraus |
| Shell Collecting, An Illustrated History | S. Peter Dance |
| Shell Collector’s Guide | Ruth H. Fair |
| Shell Craft | Cleo M. Stephens |
| Shell Craft | Virginie Fowler Elbert |
| Shell Life and Shell Collecting | Sonia Bennett Murray |
| Shellcraft Novelties | Henri V. Dorsman |
| Shelling Along the Florida, Gulf & South Atlantic Coasts | M. O’Mara (In page protector binder) |
| Shelling in Florida and The Caribbean | Gary Magnotte |
| Shells | Andreas Feininger & William Emerson |
| Shells & Shelling (Hundreds of Shells in Color), Fla Gulf & S. Atlantic | Ralph Barrett & Ralph Patterson |
| Shells Alive | Neville Coleman |
| Shells and Shell Collectiong | S. Peter Dance |
| Shells Are Where You Find Them | Elizabeth Clemons |
| Shells at our Feet: An Introduction to Shelling in the Bahamas | Mary Baker Moulding (autographed) |
| Shells from Cape Cod to Cape May | Morris Jacobson & William K. Emerson |
| Shells in Color (1 soft cover, 2 hard cover) | Sandved & Abbott |
| Shells of Japan | T. Okutani Yasaio Takemura |
| Shells of Japan (Enlarged and Revised Edition) | Tetsuaki Kira |
| Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific | Alan Hinton |
| Shells of New Zealand | A.W. B. Powell |
| Shells of Oman | Donald Bosch |
| Shells of the Florida Coasts | Francis Wyly Hall |
| Shells of the Philippines | E. J. Springsteen & F. M. Leobrera |
| Shells On Stamps of The World | Kohman Arakawa |
| Shells, An Illustrated Guide to a Timeless and Fascinating World | Mary Saul |
| Shells: Jewels from the Sea | M.G. Harasewych |
| Snails of Land & Sea | Hilda Simon |
| South African Shells | Dierdre Richards |
| Spirals From the Sea | Jane F. Safer & Frances M. Gill |
| Standard Catalog of Shells (3rd edition) (Loose Leaf Binder form) | Robert Wagner & R. Tucker Abbott |
| Starfish | Marjorie Furlong & Virginia Pill |
| Starfishes and Their Relations | Ailsa M. Clark |
| Stratography and Paleontology: Late Neocene Strata of the Caloosahatchee River Area of Southern Florida | Jules Dubar |
| Survey of The Mussells of the Illinois River | W. C. Starrett |
| The Australian Beach Comber | Neville Coleman |
| The Coral Book | Sandra Romashko |
| The Erotic Ocean | Jack Rudloe |
| The Fascinating World of The Sea | Elva Sheets |
| The Henry Holt Guide to Shells of the World | A.P.H. Oliver |
| The How And Why Wonder Book of Sea Shells | Donald Low |
| The Living Coweries | C.M. Burgess |
| The Living Volutes | Weaver & DuPont |
| The Magic Lure of Seashells (National Geographic March 1969) In Masking tape binder, only the shell article of the Month | Paul Zahl |
| The Outer Lands | Dorothy Sterling |
| The Seven Seas | Elizabeth Clemons |
| The Shell Book | Julia Rogers |
| The Shell Book: Florida, Gulf & Caribbean | Sandra Romashko |
| The Shell Collector Handbook | A Hyatt Verrill |
| The Shell Makers | Alan Solem |
| The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design | Hugh & Marguerite Stix & R. Tucker Abbott |
| The Shell: Gift of The Sea | Hugh & Marguerite Stix & R. TuckerAbbott |
| The Shellcraft Instructor | Lester M. Powell |
| The World of Animals With Shells | Lady Plowden |
| Tide Pools & Beaches | Elizabeth Clemons |
| Tide Tables & Notes on Boating for the Coast of Queensland | Department of Harbours & Marine, Queensland Aus. |
| Tropical Land Shells of the World | Brian Parkinson, J. Hemmen & K Groh |
| Underwater Guide to Tahiti | R. Bagnis & E. Christian |
| Van Nostrands Standard Catalog of Shells (1st edition) | Robert Wagner & R. Tucker Abbot |
| Volutes | Guido T. Poppe & Yoshihiro Goto |
| Waves Tides & Currents | Elizabeth Clemons |
| Webb’s Catalog of Present Mollusca from All Parts of the World | W. F. Webb |
| West Coast Chitons (In Spiral binder) | Glen & Laura Burghardt |
| World of Nature Sea Shells | Harald Rehder |
| World Size Records. 1990: Supplement 4 Standard Catalog of Shells | Robert Wagner & R. Tucker Abbott |
Abbott, R. Tucker, Kingdom of the Seashell, Crown Publishers, 1972. (2 copies autographed by author), 1982, (1 copy autographed by author). We also have a 1972 and a 1975 copy.
Abbott, R. Tucker, American Malacologists, and 1st edition: 1973-74, A National Register of Professional & Amateur Malacologists & private shell collectors.
Abbott, R. Tucker, Best of the Nautilus, (index), American Malacologists, Greenville Delaware, 1979.
Abbott, R. Tucker, American Seashells, 1st edition, D. Van Nostrand Publishers, 1954, 2nd edition, Van Nostrand publishers, 1974, (autographed by author).
Abbott, R. Tucker, Seashells of North America, Field Guide, Golden Press, 1968.
Abbott, R. Tucker, Collectible Shells of the S.E. United States, Bahamas & Caribbean, American Malacologists, Melbourne Fla. 1984.
Abbott, R. Tucker, How To Know American Marine Shells, New American Library Publishers, 1961.
Abbott, R. Tucker, Marine Mollusks of Grand Cayman Island, & British West Indies, George W. Carpenter, Philadelphia Penn. 1958.
Abbott, R. Tucker and S. Peter Dance, Compendium of Sea Shells, E. P. Dutton, 1982, (autographed by both authors).
Abbott, R. Tucker, Compendium of Land Shells, American Malacologists, 1989.
Abbott, R. Tucker, Sea Shells of the World. A Guide to the Better-Known Species, Golden Press Inc., New York, 1962.
Abbott, R. Tucker, Sea Shells, A Junior Golden Guide, Golden Press Inc., New York, 1966.
Abbott, R. Tucker, Indo-Pacific Mollusca, Volumes 1, 2, & 3. Published by Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, (In 3 Binders), 1959.
Abbott, R. Tucker, Pronouncing the Scientific Names of Sea Shells of North America, 33 rpm recording (side 1 has skipping).
Allen, Joyce, Australian Shells, Georgian House, Melbourne, Australia, 1950.
Andrews, Jean, Sea Shells of the Texas Coast, University of Texas Press, 1971.
Angeletti, Sergio, Color Treasury of Sea Shells, Crescent Books, Orbis Publishers Ltd., London, England, 1973.
Arakawa, Kohnman, Shell Stamps of the World, Biological Society of Nagasaki Prefecture, 1979.
Arnold, Augusta Foote, Sea Beach At Ebb Tide, General Publishing Company, Toronto, Canada, 1981.
Bagnis, R. & E. Christian, Underwater Guide to Tahiti, Les Editions du Pacifique, 1983.
Baker, Frank C. Mollusca of the Chicago Area, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Part 1, 1898, Part 2, 1902. Both paperback volumes are bound into one hardbound edition.
Barrett, Ralph & David Patterson, Editors, Shells and Shelling / Hundreds of Shells in Color, Post Publications, 1967.
Bartsch, Paul, Harald A. Rehder & Beulah E. Shields, A Biography and Short Biographical Sketch of William Healey Dall, Published by The Smithsonian Institution, 1946.
Bavendam, Fred, Beneath Cold Waters, The Marine Life of New England, Down East Books, Camden, Maine, 1980.
Bieler, Rudiger, & Neil H. Landman, Paula M. Mikkelsen, Bennett Bronson, Pearls: A Natural History, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2001. (Autographed by Rudiger Bieler).
Bieler, Rudiger & Paula Mikkelsen (editors), Bivalve Studies in the Florida Keys, Malacologia, International Journal of Malacology, Volume 46(2), 2004. (Autographed)
Boom, Robert, Hawaiian Sea Shells, Robert Boom Company, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1972.
Bosch, Donald, Shells of Oman, Longman Group Ltd., Harlow, Essex England, 1982.
Bosch, Donald & S. Peter Dance, Robert Moolenbeek, P. Graham Oliver, Sea Shells of Eastern Arabia, Motivate Publishers, 1995.
Bouchet, Ph, F. Danrigal, C. Huygens, Sea Shells of Western Europe, American Malacologists, 1979.
Bratcher, Twila, Walter Cernohorsky, Living Terebras of the World, American Malacologists, 1987.(autographed by author).
Burgess, C.M., Cowries of the World, 2nd Edition, CPT Book Printers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1985.
Burgess, C.M., The Living Cowries, A.S. Barnes & Co. Inc., 1970.
Burgess, Dr. Warren E., Corals, T.F.H. Publications, Inc., 1979.
Burghardt, Glenn & Laura, West Coast Chitons, San Francisco Aquarium Society, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1969.
Cate, Jean M., Selma Raskin, It’s Easy To Say Crepidula! (In notebook form, Xeroxed from a publication in the Chicago Public Library)
Cernohorsky, Walter, Marine Shells of the Pacific, Pacifix Publishing Co., Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1967.
Clark, Ailsa M., Starfishes and Their Relations, British Museum of Natural History, 1962.
Coleman, Neville, The Australian Beachcomber, W. Collins Publishers Printing Ltd., 1979.
Coleman, Neville, Shells Alive!, Rigby Publishers, Adelaide, Australia, 1981.
Couch, Karen J., An Illustrated Guide to the Unionid Mussels of Kansas, Published by Karen Couch, 1997.
Costeau, Jacques, Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau, Volumes 1 thru 21.
Cummings, Kevin S., & Christine Mayer, Mussels of the Midwest, Illinois Natural History Survey, Manuel # 5, 1992. (Autographed by Kevin Cummings)
Dance, S. Peter, Collectors Encyclopedia of Shells, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974.
Dance, S. Peter, Shell Collecting, An Illustrated History, University of California Press, 1966.
Dance, S. Peter, Shells and Shell Collecting, Hamlyn Publishing Group, London, England, 1972.
Dance, S. Peter, Eyewitness Handbook: Shells, Dorling Kindersley Inc.1992. (Notebook form, Xeroxed from publication in Beth Heierling’s library)
Department of Harbours and Marine, Tide Tables & Notes on Boating For the Coast of Queensland, Published by the Department of Harbours and Marine of Queensland Australia, 1973.
Dorsman, Henri V., Shell Craft Novelties, Published by Henri V. Dorsman, St. Petersburg, Fla., 1952.
Dubar, Jules, Stratography and Paleontology: Late Neocene Strata of the Caloosahatchee River Area of Southern Florida, Florida Geological Survey, 1958.
Eisenberg, Jerome, Collector’s Guide to Sea Shells of the World, Mc Graw-Hill Books, 1981, Reprinted 1984.
Elbert, Virginie Fowler, Shell Craft, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, Ind., 1978.
Emerson, William, & Morris Jacobson, American Museum of Natural History Guide to Shells. Land, Fresh Water, & Marine: Nova Scotia to Florida, Alfred Knopf, Publishers, New York, 1976.
Fair, Ruth H., Shell Collector’s Guide, Charles Tuttle Company, 1976.
Faulkner, Douglas, & Richard Chesher, Living Corals, Crown Publishers, New York, 1979.
Feinberg, Harold, & Bruno Sabelli, Guide to Shells, Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Feininger, Andreas & William Emerson, Shells, Viking Press, New York, 1972.
Furlong, Marjorie & Virginia Pill, Starfish, Ellison Industries, Edmonds, Wash. 1970.
Gerber, Dr. Jochen, Revision der gattung Vallonia Risso, 1826, Vrelag, Christa Hemmen, Weisbaden, West Germany, ( Text in German), 1996.
Goodman, Stuart & Leni, Art From Shells, Crown Publishers, 1972.
Habe, Tadashige, & Tetusaki Kira, Shells of the Western Pacific in Color, Volume 2, Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, Japan, 1968, reprinted 1975.
Hall, Francis Wyly, Shells of the Florida Coasts, Published by Francis Wyly Hall, 1962.
Harasewych, M.G., Shells: Jewels from the Sea, Nevraumont Publishing Co. Inc., New York, 1989.
Harden, Cleo, How to Preserve Animals & Other Specimens in Clear Plastic, Naturegraph Company, Healdsburg, Cal., 1963.
Heatwole, Harold, A Coral Island, W. Collins Printing, Sydney, Australia, 1981.
Heiman, E.L., Cowries of East Sinai, Keterpress Enterprises, Jerusalem, 2002.
Hess, Lilo, Sea Horses, T.F.H. Publications, 1956.
Hinton, Alan, Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific, C. Tuttle Co, Rutland Vermont, 1972, Reprinted 1982.
Hinton, Alan, Guide to Australian Shells, Robert Brown & Associates Printing Ltd. (Year not given)
Hoyt, Murray, Jewels From the Ocean Deep, G.P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1967.
Hutchinson, William M., A Child’s Book of Sea Shells, Maxton Publishers, New York, 1954.
Jacobson, Morris, & William K. Emerson, Shells from Cape Cod to Cape May, Dover Publishers, New York, 1961.
Johnstone, Kathleen Yerger, Collecting Sea Shells, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1970.
Johnstone, Kathleen Yerger, Sea Treasure, A Guide to Shell Collecting, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass., 1957.
Keen, A. Myra, Sea Shells of Tropical West America, 1st Edition, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Cal. 1958.
Keen, A. Myra, Sea Shells of Tropical West America from Baja California to Peru, 2nd Edition, Stanford University Press, Stanford Cal. 1971.
Keen, A. Myra, & Eugene Coan, Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America: An Illustrated Key, Stanford university Press, Stanford, Cal. 1974.
Kira, Tetasuaki & Tadashige Habe, Shells of the Western Pacific in Color Volume 1, Hoishusa Publishing Co. Okaka, Japan, 1962, reprinted 1975.
Krauss, Helen, Shell Art, General publishing Co, Ltd. Don Mills, Ontario, 1976.
Lindner, Gert, Field Guide to Sea Shells of the World, van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977. (Notebook form, color Xeroxed)
Line, Les & George Reiger, The Audubon Society Book of Marine Wildlife, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1980.
Lipe, Robert & R. Tucker Abbott, Living Shells of the Caribbean and Florida Keys, American Malacologists, Melbourne, Florida, 1991.
Low, Donald, The How and Why Wonder Book of Sea Shells, Wonder Books Inc., New York, 1961.
Magnotte, Gary, Shelling in Florida and the Caribbean, Dukane Press Inc., Hollywood, Fla. (No date given)
Mansfield, W.C., Mollusks of Florida: Upper Tertiary & Pleistocene Mollusks of the Peninsular Florida, Bulletin # 18, Published by State Geological Survey, Tallahassee, Fla., 1939.
Marsh, A.A. & O.H. Rippingale, Cone Shells of the World, Jacranda Press, Melbourne, Fla., 1958.
Matthys, Joyce, Mollusks in Action, 30 minute VHS video tape showing mollusks in various stages of everyday life.
Mc Kay, Frances Peabody, Let’s Go Shelling, Great Outdoors Publishing, 1968.
Melvin, A. Gordon, Sea Shells of the World with Values, Charles Tuttle Co., First printing 1966, Seventeenth printing 1984.
Melvin, A. Gordon, & Lorna Strong Melvin, 1000 World Sea Shells Rare to Common with Values, Charles Tuttle Co., 1980. (Notebook form, Xeroxed from a publication in Beth Heierling’s library)
Melvin, A. Gordon, Sea Shell Parade, Charles Tuttle Co., 1973.
Miller, Arthur P. & Marjorie Miller, Park Ranger Guide to Seashores, Stackpole Books, 1992.
Morris, Percy, Field Guide to Shells, Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, Mass., 1947.
Morris, Percy, Field Guide to Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and West Indes, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass., 2nd edition & 3rd edition, 1973.
Morris, Percy, Guide to Shells of the Pacific Coast, Gulf of California and Hawaii, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass., 1st edition, 1952 & 2nd edition, 1966.
Morton, J.E., Mollusks, An Introduction to Their Form and Functions, Harper Torchbooks, 1960.
Moulding, Mary Baker, Shells At Our Feet, An Introduction to Shelling in the Bahamas, Sea Scapes Publishing, Chicago, Ill., 1967. (Autographed by author)
Murray, Sonia Bennett, Shell Life and Shell Collecting, Sterling Publishers, 1999.
Nordsieck, Dr. Fritz, Die Europaischen Meeresmuscheln (Bivalvia), Gustav Fischer Velag, Stuttgart, Germany, 1969. (Text in German)
Okutani, T. Shells of Japan. (Color plates, names in English and Japanese, text printed in Japanese)
Oliver, A.P.H., The Henry Holt Guide to Shells of the World, Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1975.
O’Mara, M. Shells Along the Florida, Gulf and South Atlantic Coasts, M.W. Publishers, 1956.
Parkinson, Brian & Jens Hemmen, Klaus Groh, Tropical Landshells of the World, Verlag, Christa, Hemmen Co., Wiesbaden, W. Germany, 1987.
Pearson, Gayle, Contemporary Shell Craft, Craft Course Publishers, Inc., 1970.
Petuch, Edward & Dennis Sargent, Atlas of the Living Olive Shells of the World, Coastal Education & Research Foundation Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 1986.
Plowden, Lady, Editor, The World of Animals with Shells, B.P.C. Publishing, Ltd. 1972.
Powell, A.W.B., New Zealand Mollusca, Marine, Land, and Freshwater Shells, Wm. Collins Publishers, Ltd., Auckland New Zealand, 1979.
Powell, A.W.B., Shells of New Zealand, 5th ed., 1976. Published by Whitcoulls Limited, Auckland, New Zealand. (Donated by Bob Cousins)
Radwin, George E. & Anthony D’Attillio, Murex Shells of the World, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Cal., 1976.
Rehder, PhD., Harald, World of Nature: Sea Shells, Gallery Books, New York, 1990.
Rice, Tom, A Sheller’s Directory of Clubs, Books, Periodicals & Dealers, Of Sea & Shore Publications, Port Gamble, Wash., 25th edition, 2001-2002.
Rice, Tom, Marine Shells of the Pacific Northwest, Ellison Industries, Inc., Edmonds, Wash., 1971.
Richards, Deirdre, South African Shells, A Collectors Guide, C. Struik, ltd., Foreshore, Cape Town, South Africa, 1st Edition, 1981.
Ricketts, Edward F. & Jack Calvin, Between Pacific Tides, Stanford University Press, 3rd edition, 1966.
Rogers, Julia, The Shell Book, Charles T. Branford Co., Boston, Mass., 1908.
Romanshko, Sandra, The Shell Book, Florida, Gulf & Caribbean, 2nd edition, Windward Publishing Inc., Miami, Fla., 1974.
Romanshko, Sandra, The Coral Book, Windward Publishing Inc., Miami, Fla., 1975.
Rotman, Jeffrey & Barry Allen, Beneath Cold Seas (Exploring Cold Temperate Waters of North America), Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983.
Rudloe, Jack, The Wilderness Coast, E.P. Dutton, (division of Penguin Books), 1988.
Rudloe, Jack, The Erotic Ocean, E.P. Dutton, (division of Penguin Books), 1971.
Safer, Jane Fearer & Frances Mc Laughlin Gill, Spirals From The Sea, (An Anthropological Look at Shells), Clarkson N. Potter, New York, 1982.
Sandved, Kjell, & R. Tucker Abbott, Shells in Color, Viking Press, New York, 1973.
Saul, Mary, Shells, An Illustrated Guide to a Timeless and Fascinating World, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974.
Shedd Aquarium, John G., Aquatic Life in the John G. Shedd Aquarium, Published by Shedd Aquarium Society.
Sheets, Elva D., The Fascinating World of the Sea, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1974.
Siekman, Lula, A Dictionary of Shells, 4th edition, Great Outdoors Publishing Co, 1964.
Simmons, Alicia H., Beach Shelling in Antigua, Published by Alicia Simmons. (No date given)
Solem, Alan, Life Along the Seashore, Encyclopedia Britannica Press, Chicago, Ill., 1963. (Autographed by author)
Solem, Alan, Endodontoid Land Snails from Pacific Islands, Part I, & Part II, Published by Field Museum of Natural History, part I, 1976, part II, 1978.
Solem, Alan, New Molluscan Taxa & Scientific Writings by Fritz Haas, Published by Field Museum of Natural History, 1967.
Solem, Alan & Numerous Authors, Mollusca, The Southern Synthesis, Part B. Fauna of Australia, Volume 5, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, VIC, Australia, 1998.
Solem, G. Alan, The Shell Makers, 1974 Published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, New York. (Donated by Bob Cousins)
Springsteen, E.J. & F.M. Leobrera, Shells of the Philippines, Carfel Sea Shell Museum, Malate, Manila, Philippines, 1986.
Starrett, W. C., Survey of the Mussels of the Illinois River, 1971.
Stephens, Cleo M. Shellcraft, Chilton Book Company, Radner, Pennsylvania, 1974. (Donated by Bob Cousins)
Sterling, Dorothy, The Outer Lands, A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island & Long Island, W. Norton Co., 1978.
Stix, Hugh & Marquerite, & R. Tucker Abbott, The Shell, Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1972.
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Prepared on 04/10/2005 by Beth Heierling, CSC Librarian