Tinker, Spencer Wilkie — Pacific Sea-Shells

Rutland, Vermont, Charles E Tuttle Co, 1974. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Thirteenth Printing, 1974, of the 1959 First Edition. Bound handsomely in blue paper-covered boards with white backstrip and blue lettering. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the publisher's blurb, "Without doubt the most complete and informative popular handbook on the subject. More than 300 separate types of shells are presented in striking photographs. Each is carefully described in language both clearly written and scientifically correct. The descriptions include both the common and scientific names of each shell, its size and color, and its distribution throughout the Indo-Pacific area." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 5-240 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,