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Mineral Digest - The Journal of Mineralogy - Three issues of this long-defunct old magazine are available. Min.Dig. has an artsy, funky sixties style, chock full of color photos, trying hard to be highbrow. A mixture of articles on gems and minerals, with some significant contributors, including Sinkankas, Pough, Hurlbut, Desautels, and Pearl and some classic stuff too that isn't seen in any other mineral mag. Good reading, and where else would you see a quartz crystal painted by Salvador Dali?
Volume 1 - Good condition but spine a bit damaged, $20
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Editorial: starving miners | |
| Mexico's Mineral Classics | Sinkankas | |
| A Man and His Jewels (Winston) | Zara | |
| Minerals on Postage Stamps | Bruns | |
| Brazil and Its Minerals | Pough | |
| Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | Doyle | |
| Petrified Wood | ||
| Color in Minerals | Vanders | |
| Alpha Stands | ||
| Quartz | Hurlbut | |
| Man Behind the Revolution | Zara | |
| Gemstones: The Royal Line | Desautels | |
| At last, a Book Club |
Volume 2 - Good condition but some spine damage, $20
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Editorial: Semi-Precious Stones Do Not Exist | |
| Moon Rocks | Sinkankas | |
| Tanjeloffite and Blue Zoisite | Zara | |
| Minerals of India | Pearl | |
| Cameos | Willems | |
| Woman Behind the Man | ||
| The False Gems | Maupassant | |
| El Caminante | Neruda | |
| Minerals from Tsumeb | Wollin | |
| Fossils on Postage Stamps | Bruns |
Volume 4 - Some loose pages, otherwise good, $18
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Editorial: The Seas Belong to Mankind | |
| Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan | Bariand | |
| Three Poems | Neruda | |
| Harvest of the Sea: Pearls and Jade | ||
| Great Jewel Robberies: Thieves, Time & Places | Howard | |
| The Rainbow Mineral: Fluorite | Wollins | |
| The Crystal Princess | ||
| Portfolio: The Paintings of Jacques HAM de Witt | ||
| Rhodochrosite | Schaub | |
| The Diamond Necklace | Zara | |
| Moor with Block of Emeralds | ||
| Malachite of the Congo | MacFall | |
| Poetry of the Earth | Krupsaw | |
| The 601 carat Lesotho Diamond | ||
| Tigereye | Wollin | |
| Copper | ||
| Minerals in Advertising | ||
| Indochinites: Glass from the Sky | Futrell | |
| Historic Jades | ||
| Fool's Gold | ||
| Albanian Housewives on Postage Stamps | Bruns |
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Crown Jewels of Iran by V.Meen & A.Tushingham, 159 pages, 1968 A beautiful large hardcover coffee table book with dozens of color photos, a very limited edition. Dust jacket has a few small tears, otherwise in perfect condition. Georgeous photography! Signed by both authors! $120 US
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Gemstones of the World, by Walter Schumann, 256 pages, 1977 - A nice small pocketbook-sized (20x13cm) hardcover book, with information on over sixty gemstones and numerous color photographs of cut and rough stones. In quite good shape. $10
Birthday Book of Gems, by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, 128 pages, 1986 - This is basically a very fancy hardcover calendar in the shape of a book, (22x15cm) featuring dozens of superb color photos of minerals and lapidary creations by the folks who dominated mineral photography for a couple of decades or so. Very pretty! A bit of scuffing on the corners and edges, but perfect on the interior. $10
Ontario Geological Survey Bancroft Area Precambrian Geology Maps 1998, 1:50,000 scale, $10 each. A must for anybody who collects near Bancroft, Ontario!
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