A shell dealer in NYC wrote an autobiography perhaps 10-15 years ago.  I can't remember the author beyond Veronica, but the name was "She Sells Sea Shells".  Probably someone else will fill in the blanks.
Allen Aigen
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One of the best books in my library is "The Best of the Nautilus", a collection of writings from the early 1900's edited by R.Tucker Abbott.
It is full of wonderful stories of collecting - marine, terrestrial, and freshwater shells.

Winston Barney
Fort Worth, TX
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  From: Philip Zaleski
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  Hello Everyone,

  I'm new to this list so my apologies if this question has been addressed in the past. I'm trying to compile a list of shelling narratives, that is, first-person accounts (in book form) of seashell collecting. I'm aware of the following material:

  1) Combing the South Seas by Joseph Verco
  2) Various books by Kathleen Johnstone, which contain many aubiographical reminiscences
  3) Some of the essays in Seashell Parade by A. Gordon Melvin
  4) Merrill Moore's "A Note on Conchology"
  5) Martha Hodgson's The Spell of the Shell

  Any others anybody can steer me toward? Thanks!

  Philip Zaleski



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