Friday, December 11, 2009

Books by, co-authored by, ________________or edited by Vandall T. King


1973  Donald Morrison, Joan Acord, William Acord, Rupert Aldrich, Gordon Hewes, Terry Hewes, Donald L. Joyner, Vandall T. King, Deborah Morrison, Stanley I. Perham, Ralph Spencer, Sarah Spencer, Katie Tamminen, Nestor Tamminen, Guidebook I to Mineral Collecting in the Maine Pegmatite Belt, Federation of Maine Mineral and Gem Clubs, pp. 22 (reprinted 1974, 1976, 1979, 1983).

1975 King, Vandall T. and Bruce Nelson, Guidebook to Geologic and Beach Features of the Rachel Carson Salt Pond Area, New Harbor, Maine, Maine Sea Grant Bulletin #10, pp. 16.

1980 Distribution of Alkali and Alkaline-Earth Elements in a Newry, Maine Pegmatite, privately published, Rochester, New York, pp. 131.

1988 (Woodrow B. Thompson, Donald L. Joyner, Raymond G. Woodman, and King, Vandall T.) A Collector's Guidebook to Maine Minerals, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 110.

1989 (Currier, Rock Henry and King, Vandall T.) The World's Most Incredible Mineral Specimens, Jewel Tunnel Press, Arcadia, California, pp. 73.


1991 (Woodrow B. Thompson, Donald L. Joyner, Raymond G. Woodman, and King, Vandall T.) A Collector's Guidebook to Maine Minerals, second edition, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 104.

1993 Critical [Mineral] Areas Program. Preliminary Report to Eastern Federation of Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies, Rochester Academy of Science, Rochester, NY, pp. 42.


1995 (King, Vandall T. and Eugene E. Foord) Mineralogy of Maine, volume 1, Descriptive Mineralogy, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 418 + 88 plates [1994 on title page].

1997 (Gaines, Richard, Catherine Skinner, Eugene Foord, Abraham Rosensweig; Brian Mason, and
Vandall T. King), Dana's New Mineralogy [System], eighth edition, Wiley Interscience, NY, NY, pp. 1819.


1998 (Woodrow B. Thompson, Donald L. Joyner, Raymond G. Woodman, and Vandall T. King) A Collector's Guidebook to Maine Minerals, third edition, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine.


2000 Mineralogy of Maine, volume 2, Mining History, Gems, and Geology, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 524.


2002 Charles Palache Gossan Minerals Lecture audio book, 2 CD set, Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ.

2002 Charles Palache Gossan Minerals ebook, CD, Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ.



2003 (Vandall King and Linda Morgan) Rochester Prevention and Resilience Project, Unity Health System, Rochester, NY, ebook CD.


2005 (Contributing Editor: Vandall T. King), Minerals and Their Localities, Granite Press, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 807.


2009 Maine Feldspar, Families, and Feuds, New England Historical Publications, Boston, MA, pp 300. (See cover illustration on left margin. Click for larger size image.)


2010 Collector's Guide to Granite Pegmatites, Schiffer Press.


2011 Nature's Garden of Crystals.




2012 Minerals of Oxford County, Maine - Western Section.


2013 Minerals After Dark. (in progress).


2013 Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom (in progress).