BK1 Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals by by Annibale Mottana, Rodolfo Crespi and Giuseppe Libori –  An easy to use field guide, with over 1,000 spectacular illustrations – 600 in full color This book covers in depth most minerals, their composition and formations, how to identify them as well as how and where they form and has 64 pages of color pictures and descriptions of minerals. It measures 4 1/2″x 7″; 607 pages.