Huntington, NY, Privately Published, 1938. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 372 pp.; 152 plates. Original dark green buckram with gilt title on the spine and front boards.

"The Vanderbilt Marine Museum is the privately owned depository of the marine collections of William K. Vanderbilt, Esquire, and is located on his country estate, 'Eagle's Nest,' Huntington, Long Island, New York. ...The scientific publications of the museum consist of a series of Bulletins, designed to disseminate results based on the marine zoological collections, every specimen of which was personally collected by Mr. Vanderbilt during a series of cruises in his yachts..." (from the prefaces). This is Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum volume VII (last, and one of the least common): The Mollusca (Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora and Cephalopoda) occupy pp. 285-361, and plates 110-152. Author is the American malacologist and - principally - crustacean specialist Pearl Lee Boone (1891-1978). One source gives 1895 or 1896 as year of birth. For a while she worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, but was forced to leave. "During her time at the museum she was accused of incompetence by Waldo Schmitt and other colleagues, while she claimed she was harassed by him" (Wikipedia). She edited (and wrote most of) the Bulletin publications. Ex library markings on spine, title, and endpapers, otherwise a very good.