Horace S. Mazet's Shark Library

Ayer Patton, B. 1936. Blood of the shark. Paradise of the Pacific Press. Honolulu HI. 374 pp. Baker, C. R. & C.

W. Rose 1922. Report of a case of shark bite. U.S. Naval Medical Bulletin, May, 1922. Clinical Notes p. 881-883. Baldridge, H. D. 1974. Shark attack. A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation New York. 263 pp.

Barton, C. A. 1975. Sharks: Countermeasure research. U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 101: 115-117 (Oct. 1975, Number 10/872)

Bendix, M. 1977. Shark fishermen of Mexico. Oceans 10: 12-17 (Nr. 6, November-December 1977) Blaine, J. 1949. The phantom shark. Grosset & Dunlup Publishers, New York. 206 pp. Brown, T. W. 1973. Sharks: The silent savages. A Sports Illustrated Book. Little, Brown and Company Boston. 134 pp.

Budker, P. 1971. The life of sharks. English version by P. J. Whitehead. Columbia University Press, New York. 222 pp.

Burgess, R. F. 1970. The sharks. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City NY. 159 pp.

Butler, J. C. 1964. Danger - Sharks. Little, Brown and Company, Boston MA. 243 pp.

Caunter, J. A. L. 1961. Shark angling in Great Britain. Angling Times Series. George Allen & Unwin LTD, London. 145 pp. Clark J. 1975. Shark frenzy. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York NY. 106 pp.

Clark, E. 1981. Sharks, magnificent and misunderstood. National Geographic 160:138-186 (Aug. 1991)

Compagno, L. J. V. 1984. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes FAO Fish. Synop. (125) Vol. 4, Pt. 2: 251-65

Conniff R. 1993. From jaws to laws - now the big bad shark needs protection from us. Smithsonian 24: 32-43 (Number 2, May1993)

Coppleson, V. M. 1963. Patterns of shark attack for the world. Chapter 14 in Sharks and Survival. In Sharks and survival. Gilbert, P. W. ed. Pp. 380-421.

Coppleson, V. M. 1958. Shark attack. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. 269 pp.

Coppleson, V. 1933. Shark attacks in Australian waters. Reprinted from the Medical Journal of Australia April 15, 1933: 449. 20 pp check.

Cousteau, J.-Y. & P. Cousteau 1970. The shark: Splendid savage of the sea. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City NY. 277 pp. (Front cover has review by H. S. Mazet in U.S. Naval Inst. Proc. January 1976.

Cropp, B. 1964. Shark hunters. Rigby Limited, Adelaide. 192 pp.

Curtis, R. 1948. The shark arm murders. Pocket Book Weekly, February 21, 1948: 35-37. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Sydney, NSW.

Daniel, J. F. 1922. The elasmobranch fishes. University of California Press, Berkeley CA. 334 pp.

Davidson R. 1988. Whalemen of Twofold Bay. Pirie Printers Pty Ltd. Fyshwick, NSW Australia. 172 pp. (Letter from Rene Davidson to Lt. Col. Mazet, dated 6th January 1988.

Davis, D. H. 1964. About sharks and shark attack. Hobbs, Doman & Company, Inc. New York. 237 pp.

Dennis F. ed. 1976. Man-eating sharks. Castle Books, Secaucus N.J. 07094. 95 pp

Devany, C. 1985. Killer shark, the biology and behaviour of maneating sharks. Orbis Publishing, London. 64 pp.

Ellis, R. 1975. The book of sharks. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. 320 pp. Front cover with review by H. S. Mazet in The Conservationist, November-December 1977 and the National Fisherman January 1978. Letter from Richard Ellis to H. S. Mazet, dated 10 November 1977.

Ellis, R. 1980. The book of whales. Borzoi Book, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. New York NY. 202 pp.

Ellis, R. 1982. Dolphins and porpoises. Alfred A. Knopf, New York NY. 270 pp.

Ellis, R. & J. E. McCosker 1991. Great white shark. Harper Collins Publishers, New York. 270 pp. (Front cover has review by H. S. Mazet in Monterey Herald date?. Card by R. Ellis dated 19 July, 1991.

Ferguson A. & G. Cailliet 1990. Sharks and rays of the Pacific Coast. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey California. 64 pp.

Fish bulletin No. 64. 1946. The biology of the soupfin Galeorhinus zyopterus and biochemical studies of the liver. State of California. Dept. of Natural Resources. Division of Fish and Game. 93 pp

Fussman, C. ? Hunting the hunter. Magazine p. 24-30. Inside of Ellis and McCosker 1991

Gilbert, P. W. ed. 1963. Sharks and survival. D. C. Heath & Company, Lexiton MA. 1975 Printing 578 pp

Goldsmith, M. M. 1951. The miraculous fish of Domingo Gonzales. Hammond Hammond & CO. LTD. London. 208 pp

Grasso, L. 1986. World record - Mundus lands monster white off Montauk. Suffolk Summer Life Magazine. Friday, August 15, 1986.

Grey, Z. 1976. Shark, the killer of the deep. Belmont Tower Books, New York. 221 pp.

Gruber, S. H. ed. 1990. Discovering sharks. American Littoral Society, Highlands NJ 07732. 121 pp.

Hass, H. 1954. Men and sharks. Translated from the German by B. Mussey with 64 photographs. Doubleday & Company, INC., Garden City, NY. 318 pp. Letter of Dr. Hans Hass to Capt. H.S. Mazet, dated 6. June 1977

Helm T. 1962. Shark! Unpredictable killer of the sea. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 260 pp

Hodgson G. 1975. New England shark strikes: only four, but that that's enough. Yankee November 1975. 14258: 130-133 & 166-171.

Housby T. 1976. Shark hunter. St. Martin's Press New York. 190 pp. Front cover with reviews by H. S. Mazet in the Sunday Peninsula Herald, September 4, 1977 and The Conservationist, May-June, 1978.

Knudson, T. J. 1986. Monster catches bring fish fever back to Montauk. New York Times August 17, 1986.

Larssen, P. 1941. Offshore gold. The Macmillan Company, New York. 174 pp

Lineaweaver, T. H. & R. H. Backus 1973. The natural history of sharks. Anchor Natural History Books. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City NY. 239pp

Lineaweaver, T. H. & R. H. Backus 1984. The natural history of sharks. Nick Lyons Book, New York NY. 256 pp

Matthiessen, P. 1971. Blue Meridian. The search for the great white shark. Random House, New York. 204 pp.

Mazet, H. S. 1937. Man-killers of the ages. U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings 63: 1283-1292 (No. 9, Whole No. 415, September, 1937).

Mazet, H. S. 1938. Man-killers of the ages. Military Surgeon 83: 239-249 (No. 3, September 1938). Reprinted from the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, September, 1937

Mazet, H. S. 1977. Gentle giants, the phlegmatic whale shark. Oceans 10: 42-45 (Number 6, November-December 1977).

Mazet, H. S. 1987. Whales, men worked together. The Herald Weekend Magazine, Monterey Ca. Jan. 11, 1987, pp. 10-13

Mazet, H. S. 1990. The great aquarium tide. USAir Magazine, May 1990: 93-98

McCormick, H. W., T. Allen & W. Young 1963. Shadows in the sea. The sharks, skates and rays. Chilton Books, Philadelphia. 415 pp

McCosker, J. E. 1981. Great white shark. Science 2: 42-51 (No. 6, July/August).

Michael, S. W. 1993. Reef sharks & rays of the world. Sea Challengers, Monterey California. 107 pp

Minasian, S. M., K. C. Balcomb, III, L. Foster 1984. The world's whales. Smithsonian Books, Washington D.C. 224 pp

Moss, S. A. 1984. Sharks, an introduction for the amateur naturalist. Phalarope Book, Prentice Hall Inc. Englewoods Cliff NJ, USA. 246 pp

Muller, C. G. & H. S. Mazet 1946. Tigers of the sea. The Westminster Press, Philadelphia. 223 pp

Norman, J. R. and F. C. Fraser 1938. Giant fishes, whales and dolphins. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York NY. 361pp. (Attached to back cover is letter from John T. Nichols, curator of recent fishes of the American Museum of Natural History regarding Norman's non-recognition of the genus Isurus as distinct from Lamna.

Ocean Leather Corporation 1932. La industria de la pesca del tiburon. Tercera edicion. 15pp

Ocean Leather Corporation 1932. The shark fishing industry. Third edition. 15pp

Oceanus 1981/82. Sharks. Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 1981/82. Featuring Shark Fisherman of Mexico by Michael Bendix; Predators by Richard Ellis; How to avoid shark attack by Leighton R. Taylor; What about sharks? by John D. Turner; Marketing the shark by Steve Lissau; Nurse Shark by Phillip S. Miles; Shark in Miniature by Barbara W. Myers; Gentle Giants by Horace S. Mazet (pages 42-46 were cut out); Megamouth by Leighton R. Taylor

O'Connor, P. F. 1953. Shark! W. W. Norton & Company INC, New York. 255 pp.

Parsons, C. 1986. Dangerous marine animals of the Pacific Coast. Sea Challengers, Monterey CA. 96 pp

Patterson, R. 1979. Shark meshing takes a heavy toll of harmless marine animals. Australian Fisheries 38: 17-23

Philbin, T. ed. 1975. Sharks. An Argosy special. Lifetime Wholesalers New York NY. 66 pp

Poli F. 1959. Sharks are caught at night. Translated from the French by N. Walford. Henry Regnery Company, Chicago. 158 pp

Prioleau, P. F. 1917. A death from shark bite. U.S. Naval Medical Bulletin, October, 1917. Clinical Notes p. 539-540 with photograph

Ricciuti, E. R. 1973. Killers of the seas. Colliers Books, New York NY. 308 pp

Richer C. 1951. Ti-coyo and his shark. Translated from the French by G. Hopkins. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 235 pp.

Rogers P. 1991. Attacks by great white sharks occur very rarely, experts say. San Jose Mercury News, Wednesday, July 3, 1991. (Expert Bob Lea is quoted).

Royal, W. R. 1978. The man who rode sharks. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 253 pp. Letter of Bill Royal of Sept 10., 1983 to Col. Mazet.

Scharp, H. 1975. Shark safari. Awards Books, New York. 236 pp.

Scharp, H. 1979. Answers to your questions about sharks. Naturegraph Publishers, Inc., Happy Camp, CA 96039. 64 pp. (Cover includes review by H. S. Mazet.

Starck, W. 1979. The blue reef. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 254 pp. Front cover with review in Monterey Herald of Sunday, September 9, 1979 by H. S. Mazet.

Starks, E. C. 1917. The sharks of California. CA Fish & Game 3: 145-153.

Steel, R. 1985. Sharks of the world. Facts On File Publication, New York. 192 pp.

Stevens, J. D. ed. 1987. Sharks. Facts on File, Inc. New York NY. 240 pp.

Taylor, V. & R. Taylor eds. 1978. Great shark stories. Bantom Books, New York. 403 pp

The Monauk Pioneer 1986. The full story. August 13, 1986.

The Skin Diver March 1956. Sharks, killers or cowards. Featuring Power diver by Peter Stackpole; Shark attacks by Norman Scott; Jack Ackermann...Hawaii's Mr. Skin diver by Ray Ewing; New Women's Depth Record...270 feet by Barbara Jacobs as told by Ed Townsend; Shark attacks by Jim Oetzel; California sharks by J. B. Phillips, Marine Biologis.

Tinker, S. W. & C. J. DeLuca 1973. Shark & rays. A handbook of the shark and rays of Hawaii and the Central Pacific Ocean. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland VT. 80 pp

Travis, W. 1961. Shark for sale. George Allen & Unwin LTD, London. 181 pp

U.S. Navy 1944. Shark sense. Aviation Training Division, Office of the chief of naval operations. U.S. Navy. Issued March 1944. 22 pp

Walford, L. A. 1935. The sharks and rays of California. CA Fish Bulletin No. 45, 63pp

Walford, L. A. 1933. Commercial uses of sharks and rays. CA Fish Game 19: 179-188.

Watkins, A. 1958. The sea, my hunting ground. St. Martin's Press, New York. 249 pp

Webster, D. K. 1962. Myth and maneater. W. W. Norton & Company INC, New York. 223 pp

Whitley, G. P. 1940. The fishes of Australia. Part I Sharks, rays, devil-fish, and other primitive fishes of Australia and New Zealand. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney. 280pp

Whitely, G. P. 1981. Sharks of Australia. A Jack Pollard Sportsmaster. Jack Pollard Publishing Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 135 pp

Wise, H. D. 1937. Tigers of the sea. The Derrydale Press, Inc. 189 pp. (Attached to front cover is review by H. S. Mazet from the Town and Country. Letter from H. D. Wise Jr. to Col. Mazet dated July 8, 1982.

Whittell, P. 1883. Shark. Motor Boating & Sailing. October 1983: 35-39 & 108-110

Young, W. E. 1956. Shark hunter. First published in the U.K. by Hurst & Blackett Ltd. in 1936. Now published by Panter Books in 1956. 192 pp

Young, W. E. 1978. Shark hunter. Leisure Books, New York NY. 175 pp

Young, W. E. 1978. Shark hunter. Leisure Books, New York NY. 175 pp

Young, W. E. with Mazet H. S. 1934. Shark! Shark! The thirty-year odyssey of a pioneer shark hunter. Gotham House, New York

Zarzynski, J. W. 1885. Megamouth! National Fisherman November 1995: 35.

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