Abbott, R. Tucker, editor.

The Best of the Nautilus. A Bicentennial Anthology of American Conchology.

Greenville, Delaware: American Malacologists, 1976. Item #20322

8.5" x 5.5". 280pp. Brown cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket is a bit rubbed. "A treasury of nostalgic and often humorous writings taken from the first 40 years of America's oldest mollusk journal, covering the late pioneering period of 1886 to 1927." One funny chapter describes Abe loche, a policeman in Atlantic City who was felled by a clam dropped on his head by a seagull in 1925.

Price: $27.50