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Recommended Books:
Seashells
Books for kids
Abbott, R. Tucker
Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification
Golden Books (1969) Paperback -- 280 pages
Profusely illustrated.
Available
from Amazon.com
For beginning collectors
Abbott, R. Tucker
Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification
Golden Books (1969) Paperback -- 280 pages
Profusely illustrated.
Available
from Amazon.com
Ricketts, Edward F. & Jack Calvin
Between Pacific Tides
Stanford University Press (1992) Paperback
Available
from Amazon.com
 Rehder,
Harald A.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells
Alfred A. Knopf (1981) Hardcover - 894 pages
Amazon synopsis: The essential book for beachcombers and divers, this
guide explores more than 705 seashells, living mollusks, abalone, periwinkles,
conchs, limpets, oysters, clams, mussels, and cockles found on the
Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of North America and the West Indies.
The photographs are arranged by shape and color, making identification
quick and easy.
Available
from Amazon.com
Morris, Percy A.
A Field Guide to Shells of the Pacific Coast and Hawaii
Houghton Mifflin Co. (1974)
Out
of Print
For amateurs and serious amateurs
McLean, James H.
Marine Shells of Southern California (Science Series 24)
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (1978) 104 pages
Out
of Print
Coan, Eugene V., Paul Valentich Scott, and Frank R.
Bernard
Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks
from Arctic Alaska to Baja California
Morris, Robert H., Donald P. Abbott & Eugene C. Haderlie
Intertidal Invertebrates of California
Stanford University Press (1980) Hardcover -- 690 pages
900 color photos. Covers all groups of invertebrates and is organized
systematically. Large reference section.
Available
from Amazon.com
Keen, A. Myra
Sea Shells of Tropical West America
Stanford University Press (1971) Hardcover - 1064 pages 2nd edition
For serious amateurs & professionals studying the Panamic Province.
Available
from Amazon.com
Abbott, R. Tucker
American Seashells
Van Nostrand Reinhold (1974) -- 663 pages
The most complete on American mollusks. It also covers the Caribbean
and Mexico.
Out
of Print
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