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Out-of-print Mineral Books and Mineral Magazine Back Issues

Below is a listing of mineral magazine back issues and out of print mineral books for sale from John Betts - Fine Minerals in New York City, NY. Included  on this page are back issues of Rocks & Mineral, Mineralogical Record, Lapidary Journal as well as various USGS publications.

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Books from my Private Library

MinDex 2011-2012 -The Mineral Locality Periodical Index - Index to Mineralogical Record, Rocks and Minerals magazine and Other


Index to the 15 volumes of The Mineral Collector; March, 1894 to February, 1909 Compiled and Edited by John Betts, $25 (plus $3 shipping)


BOOKS AND MAGAZINES FROM MY MINERAL LIBRARY

Geology of the North Creek Quadrangle, New York, 1914 from New York State Museum Bulletin 170, by Miller, William J.
#53887, Geology of the North Creek Quadrangle, New York, 1914, by Miller, William J. (lc) $8

Mineral Books: Minerals do Brasil (Minerals of Brazil), volumes 1,2,3, published 1972 from by Franco, Leprevost, Bigarella, Bolsanellow
#53753, Mineral Books: Minerals do Brasil (Minerals of Brazil), volumes 1,2,3, published 1972, by Franco, Leprevost, Bigarella, Bolsanellow (lc) $100

A Mineralogical Lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts, 1895 from by Emerson, Benjamin Kendall
#55249, A Mineralogical Lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts, 1895, by Emerson, Benjamin Kendall (lc) $20

Mineral Books: Minerals of China (volume in English and matching volume in Chinese), 1980 from by Museum of China, Ministry of Geology
#53754, Mineral Books: Minerals of China (volume in English and matching volume in Chinese), 1980, by Museum of China, Ministry of Geology (lc) $100

Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Years 1883 and 1884, published in 1885 from US Geologic Survey, by Williams, Albert Jr.
#55269, Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Years 1883 and 1884, published in 1885, by Williams, Albert Jr. (lc) $35

Physical Properties of Diamond, 1965 from edited by Berman, Robert
#57691, Physical Properties of Diamond, 1965, edited by Berman, Robert (lc) $30

The Geology of Franconia  Quadrangle, New Hampshire, 1935 from by Billings and Williams
#55237, The Geology of Franconia Quadrangle, New Hampshire, 1935, by Billings and Williams (lc) $4

Gem Stones of the United States, 1957 from by Schlegel, Dorothy M.
#55257, Gem Stones of the United States, 1957, by Schlegel, Dorothy M. (lc) $12

Minerals of West Virginia, 1964 from by Martens, J. H. C.
#54717, Minerals of West Virginia, 1964, by Martens, J. H. C. (lc) $5

Preliminary Report on the Geology of the Mt. Prospect Complex, Connecticut, 1951 from Bulletin No. 76, by Cameron, Eugene
#53872, Preliminary Report on the Geology of the Mt. Prospect Complex, Connecticut, 1951, by Cameron, Eugene (lc) $6

Geology Book: Roadside Geology of Massachusetts from (softcover), by Skehan, James W.
#53770, Geology Book: Roadside Geology of Massachusetts, by Skehan, James W. (lc) $12

Paleozoic Rocks of the Canton Quadrangle, New York, 1920 from New York State Museum Bulletin 217, 218, by Chadwick, G. H.
#54744, Paleozoic Rocks of the Canton Quadrangle, New York, 1920, by Chadwick, G. H. (lc) $5

Precambrian Rocks of the Canton Quadrangle (New York), 1916 from New York State Museum Bulletin 185, by Martin, James C.
#53877, Precambrian Rocks of the Canton Quadrangle (New York), 1916, by Martin, James C. (lc) $8

The Geology of Lovewell Mountain Quadrangle, New Hampshire, 1950 from by Heald, Milton T.
#55235, The Geology of Lovewell Mountain Quadrangle, New Hampshire, 1950, by Heald, Milton T. (lc) $4

Geology of the New Preston Quadrangle, Connecticut, 1952 from Miscellaneous Series No. 3, by Gates, Robert M. and Bradley, W.C.
#53871, Geology of the New Preston Quadrangle, Connecticut, 1952, by Gates, Robert M. and Bradley, W.C. (lc) $6

Mineral Book: Mineral Recognition, 1967 from by Vanders, Iris and Kerr, Paul
#42742, Mineral Book: Mineral Recognition, 1967, by Vanders, Iris and Kerr, Paul (lc) $10

Geology of the Shepaug Aqueduct Tunnel, Litchfield County, Connecticut, 1927 from by Agar, William M. and Cairns, Robert A.
#53870, Geology of the Shepaug Aqueduct Tunnel, Litchfield County, Connecticut, 1927, by Agar, William M. and Cairns, Robert A. (lc) $6

Gypsum Deposits of New York, 1910 from New York State Museum Bulletin 143, by Newland, D.H. and Leighton, Henry
#53888, Gypsum Deposits of New York, 1910, by Newland, D.H. and Leighton, Henry (lc) $8

Mineral Book: Some Ore Deposits in Maine and the Milan Mine, New Hampshire, 1910 from by Emmons, William H.
#53844, Mineral Book: Some Ore Deposits in Maine and the Milan Mine, New Hampshire, 1910, by Emmons, William H. (lc) $20

Hiking Guide to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area, 1986 from by Steele, Michael
#53883, Hiking Guide to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area, 1986, by Steele, Michael (lc) $4

Mineral Article: Lazulite from Chittenden, Vermont, 1930 from by Palache, Charles and Gonyer, F. A.
#53852, Mineral Article: Lazulite from Chittenden, Vermont, 1930, by Palache, Charles and Gonyer, F. A. (lc) $2

Gypsum Resources and Gypsum Industry of New York, 1929 from New York State Museum Bulletin 283, by Newland, D.H.
#53886, Gypsum Resources and Gypsum Industry of New York, 1929, by Newland, D.H. (lc) $8

Geology Books: Set of Six Geology and Earth Science Books from by various authors
#42725, Geology Books: Set of Six Geology and Earth Science Books, by various authors (lc) $15

Mineral Book: Eastern Gem Trails, 1967 from by Oles, Floyd and Helga
#53856, Mineral Book: Eastern Gem Trails, 1967, by Oles, Floyd and Helga (lc) $6

Bedrock Geology of the West Torrington Quadrangle, Connecticut, 1965 from Quadrangle Report No. 17, by Gates, Robert and Christensen, N. I.
#53858, Bedrock Geology of the West Torrington Quadrangle, Connecticut, 1965, by Gates, Robert and Christensen, N. I. (lc) $6

Report on the Pyrite and Pyrrhotite Veins in Jefferson & St. Lawrence Co., New York, 1917 from by Buddington, A.F.
#54749, Report on the Pyrite and Pyrrhotite Veins in Jefferson & St. Lawrence Co., New York, 1917, by Buddington, A.F. (lc) $2

Common Minerals and Rocks of West Virginia, 1964 from by Price, Paul H.
#54716, Common Minerals and Rocks of West Virginia, 1964, by Price, Paul H. (lc) $2

Rocks & Minerals Magazine May-June 2009, vol. 84 #3 - New York State Special Issue III from featuring The Minerals of New York City, by John H. Betts
#45003, Rocks & Minerals Magazine May-June 2009, vol. 84 #3 - New York State Special Issue III, featuring The Minerals of New York City, by John H. Betts (lc) $8

Geology of the Schroon Lake Quadrangle, New York, 1910 from New York State Museum Bulletin 213, 214, by Miller, William J.
#54743, Geology of the Schroon Lake Quadrangle, New York, 1910, by Miller, William J. (lc) $4



MinDex 2011-2012-The Mineral Locality Periodical Index Index to Mineralogical Record, Rocks and Minerals magazine and Other Mineral Journals $46.40 net 

The Mining Districts of the Western United States, 1912 from USGS Bulletin 507, by Hill, James M and Lindgren, W.
#57779, The Mining Districts of the Western United States, 1912, by Hill, James M and Lindgren, W. (lc) $10

Earth's Core and Mantle, Heavy Metal, Moving Rock, 2007 from by Vogt, Gregory V.
#57776, Earth's Core and Mantle, Heavy Metal, Moving Rock, 2007, by Vogt, Gregory V. (lc) $4

A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry, 1920 from by Fay, Albert H.
#57781, A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry, 1920, by Fay, Albert H. (lc) $10

Virginia Mineral Localities, 1960 edition from Bulletin of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, by Dietrich, Richard V.
#57783, Virginia Mineral Localities, 1960 edition, by Dietrich, Richard V. (lc) $4

American Journal of Science, Volume 9, No. 26, March 1850 from edited by Silliman, B. and Dana, James D.
#57784, American Journal of Science, Volume 9, No. 26, March 1850, edited by Silliman, B. and Dana, James D. (lc) $5

Base- and Precious-Metal and Related Ore Deposits of Virginia, 1966 from Mineral resources Report 7, by Luttrell, Gwendolyn W.
#57785, Base- and Precious-Metal and Related Ore Deposits of Virginia, 1966, by Luttrell, Gwendolyn W. (lc) $6

American Journal of Science, Volume 31, No. 184, April 1911 from edited by Dana, Edward S.
#57782, American Journal of Science, Volume 31, No. 184, April 1911, edited by Dana, Edward S. (lc) $7

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland, 1956 reprint of 1922 edition from by Cole, Grenville A.J.
#57786, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland, 1956 reprint of 1922 edition, by Cole, Grenville A.J. (lc) $25

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Rock and Gem

Magazine Month Year Price_Per_Issue Comments
Rock_&_Gem November 2008 $4.99 $3.00 Field Trip for Keokuk Geodes; Using Geologic Maps; Tumbling Rocks; Light Sensitive Minerals, Field Trip to Hay Creek, Birdsboro, Pa.
Rock_&_Gem December 2008 $4.99 $3.00 Collecvting at the Copiapo Mine, N.M.; California Tourmaline; Radiactive Minerals; Rockhound Profile: Harrison Yocum.
Rock_&_Gem March 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Ruby Corundum at Chunky Gal, N.C.; Vanadinite from Arizona; Fair Trade Gems; Diamonds from Brazil; Native Elements
Rock_&_Gem April 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Mineral Names; Travel Channel's treasure Hunter Kirsten Gum; Urban Stalactires; Jade from Guatemala; Lapidary 101: Cabochons; Native Elements (Part 2); Collecting Fossils near Bridger, Montana; Investing in Mining Stocks
Rock_&_Gem May 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Agate on Woodward and Ritchie Ranches in Texas; Make a Tumbled Stone Necklace, Collecting Geodes at Rabbit Springs, Idaho; Sea Glass; Copper from Michigan; Zoisite; Starting a Mineral Collection
Rock_&_Gem June 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Utah Red Beryl; Moon Rocks; Kyanite; Starting a Mineral Collection (Part 2); Make a Solderless Belt Buckle; Collecting Trips: Burra Burra Mine, Tennessee, Lake Superior Agates, Zeolites in Washington, Pyrite from Manhattan, Colorado
Rock_&_Gem July 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Recovering Fine Gold; Minerals of Tiger, Arizona; Panning for Gold; Basic Mineral Collection (Part 3); Collecting Agate at Bear Canyon
Rock_&_Gem August 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Agate at Bullards Beach, Oregon; Artist Profile: Lois Brandt Phillips; Herkimer Diamond Quartz Crystals; Quartz as a Collectible
Rock_&_Gem September 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Arkansas Quartz Mines; Colorado Dinosaurs; Amazonite from Colorado; Crystal Twins; Collecting in Puerto Rico; Mineral Identification.
Rock_&_Gem October 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Black Quartz Crystals at Judith Peak; Rockhound Sites in England; Buying Opal in Hondura; Epidote from Alaska; Opal Inlay
Rock_&_Gem November 2009 $4.99 $3.00 Kenticky Agate; Gene Mueller Agate Collector; Artist Profile: Al Troglin; Field Trip to Stillwell Ranch, Texas
Rock_&_Gem January 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Profile & Tribute to June Culp Zeitner; New Gold Pan Design; Minerals of Great Britain; Using the BLM GeoCommunicator Map Database; Tucson Gem & Mineral Shows; Build a Mineral Reference Library
Rock_&_Gem February 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Emerald from ZAmbia; Artist Profile: Perry Brent Davis; Beryl from Rhode Island; Cast Hollow Filigree Bead
Rock_&_Gem March 2010 $4.99 $3.00 (A few pages are partially torn) Collecting Carnelian at Lucas Creek, Washington; Collecting Classic Minerals (Part 2); Artist Profile: Pippa Small; The Minerals of China; A First Rockhounding Adventure 
Rock_&_Gem April 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Malachite Pseudomorphs after Azurite from the Milipillas Mine, Mexico; Searching for Keswick Agate; Modern Mineral Classics; Dinosaur tracks in Denver; Ohio Flintknapper Roy Miller
Rock_&_Gem May 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Red Tourmaline from Wisconsin; The Minerals of Naica Mexico; Modern Mineral Classics (Part 2); Darrel "Jake" Jacobitz
Rock_&_Gem June 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Modern Mineral Classics (Part 3); Illinois Fluorite; Mechanized Flat Lapping; Field Trip to Sulphur Springs, Texas; Collecting Tourmaline in Maine
Rock_&_Gem June 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Modern Mineral Classics (Part 3); Illinois Fluorite; Mechanized Flat Lapping; Field Trip to Sulphur Springs, Texas; Collecting Tourmaline in Maine
Rock_&_Gem August 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Petrified Wood at the DoBell Ranch, Arizona; Weinman Mineral Museum becomes the Tellus Science Museum; Nebraska Mamal Fossils; Chalcedony Park, Arizona; Lapidary Dust Hazards; Minerals of India
Rock_&_Gem September 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Feldspar Phenocrysts at red River, New Mexico; Modern Mineral Classics (Part 4); X-ray Fluorescence Analyzers, Turquoise from Silver Bell, Arizona
Rock_&_Gem November 2010 $4.99 $3.00 How Agates Form; Collecting Fluorescent Minerals; Rockhounding with Grandchildren; Gemstones of the Zodiac; Artist Profile: Helen Serras-Herman, Using Ropes to Collect Minerals
Rock_&_Gem December 2010 $4.99 $3.00 Quartz Carvings of Harold Van Pelt; Chrysanthemum Stone; Charoite from Russia, Mining History of Aspen, Colorado
Rock_&_Gem January 2011 $4.99 $3.00 51 Pound Gold Nugget from Australia; Psammophiles; Quartz Crystals; Tribute to Harrison Yocum; Gold Panning on the Yuba River, California
Rock_&_Gem February 2011 $4.99 $3.00 Mineral Exhibition in China; California Mineral treasures; Handmake a Turquoise Ring; Opalized Fossils near Rincon, New Mexico; Collecting Benitoite
Rock_&_Gem March 2011 $4.99 $3.00 Secondary Minerals from Cornwall; Caerhqay's Castle, Cornwall; Mining in Brazil; Eighteen Mile Creek Fossils, New York
Rock_&_Gem April 2011 $4.99 $3.00 Azurite from the Milipillas Mine, Mexico; Finding Diamonds in Arkansas; Collecting Minerals in North Vietnam; Classic Agates, Baltic Amber; Fossils near Yellow Water Reservoir, Montana
Rock_&_Gem May 2011 $4.99 $3.00 Pyromorphite from Idaho; Collecting Elements; Spodumene from Afghanistan; Artistic Gems; Vanadinite from Morocco, Field Trip to the Bush Fam, New York
Rock_&_Gem June 2011 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Sunstone at the Dust Devil Mine in oregon; Banded Ornamental Gemstones; Serpentine from Hoboken, New Jersey; Jasper from Willow Creek, Idaho, Build an 18" Lapidary Drop Saw.
Rock_&_Gem August 2011 $4.99 $3.00 Connecticut museum of Mining and Mineral Science; Pricing Gem Artwork; New Hampshire Collecting
Rock_&_Gem September 2011 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting Augite in the Doty Hills of Washington; Dinosaur Mines in Morocco; Mineral Museum at the Colorado School of Mines
Rock_&_Gem February 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Tucson Gem Shows; Arizona Minerals Part III; Mission Copper Mine in Arizona; Field Trips to Arizona Localities; Hector Carillo Lapidary collection.
Rock_&_Gem March 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Disdero agated from British Columbia, Canada; 10th Anniversary of the discovery of Sue T.Rex; Paul Bronte Museum; Terms for describing minerals;Collecting at Crystal Park, Montana; Coprolites
Rock_&_Gem April 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting minerals underground Part I; Munich's Imnternational Agate Fair; Ivory; Obituary of Harry Wain, founder of Raytech UV lamps; Amber; collecting chrysocolla in norther Nevada
Rock_&_Gem May 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Fire Agate and Precious opal;Collecting minerals in Elba, Italy; Collecting minerals underground Part II; Turquise from Kingman, Arizona; restoring period gems; Collecting at the Ray Mine in North Carolina
Rock_&_Gem June 2012 $4.99 $3.00 London Natural History Museum; White Gypsum Dunes of New Mexico; Agates and Geodes from Luna County, New Mexico; Fossil locations in India,;Chalcedony
Rock_&_Gem July 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Ruby Mountain Colorado Garnet locality; Celestial Origin of Gold; Color in Minerals PartI; Sluice boxes for collecting gold; Cruziero Tourmaline Mine in Brazil; Fossil collecting at Big Snowy Mountain, Montana
Rock_&_Gem August 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Denver Museum of Science; Azurite through the Ages; Color in Minerals Part II; Portable water supply for your shop; Brazil's amethyst mines; Natural History Museums in Greece
Rock_&_Gem September 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Minerals of Africa Part I; Collecting Thundereggs; Color in Minerals Part III; Turquoise Mosaics; Dinosaur tacks at Red Gulch, Wyoming
Rock_&_Gem October 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Collecting opals; Minerals of Africa Part II; Sapphires; "Big Red" jasper from Arizona; East African Gem Mining; Exotic Common Opals
Rock_&_Gem November 2012 $4.99 $3.00 A.E Seaman Museum in Michigan; Agate; Magnetic boulders in Guatemala; Peridot from the Lunar Crater volcanic field in Nevada
Rock_&_Gem December 2012 $4.99 $3.00 Mineralogy of Glass; Swapping Rocks; Sphalerite; Mining golden barite in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon; Mine tours in Loughlin, Nevada, more Agates
Rock_&_Gem January 2013 $4.99 $3.00 Red rhodonite; Mineral shows in Tucson and Quartzite, Arizona; Beryl; Collecting gold at Union Flat, in the Tahoe National forest; Collecting quartz and Pyrite at the Spruce Claim, Washington; Collecting precious opal in Spencer, Idaho
Rock_&_Gem February 2013 $4.99 $3.00 Chinese mineral exhibition in Tucson; Fluorite; Agate from Idar-Oberstein, Germany; collecting at the Rockport Quarry, Michigan
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Rocks & Minerals Magazine May-June 2009, vol. 84 #3 - New York State Special Issue III from featuring The Minerals of New York City, by John H. Betts
#45003, Rocks & Minerals Magazine May-June 2009,
vol. 84 #3 - New York State Special Issue III
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featuring The Minerals of New York City, by John H. Betts (lc) $8

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