Albert Johannsen (1871–1962), was a geologist and

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professor at the

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who wrote several books on rocks. He also authored ''The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels'' (1950). He collected

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s. His academic focus was

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. He also wrote a book about

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book illustrator Phiz. Lee Wilson Dodd wrote to him enclosing an in progress text and explanation of his writing process in 1923.

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has a collection of his and Edward T. LeBlanc's dime novels. His brother Oskar Johannsen was a professor of

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at Cornell University.

Bibliography

*''A Descriptive Petrography of the Igneous Rocks'' (1931) *''The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature'' (1950) *''Manual of Petrographic Methods'' (1914) *''A Key for the Determination of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Sections'' (1908) *''Essentials for the Microscopical Determination of Rock-forming Minerals and Rocks: In Thin Sections'' (1922) *''The Fundamental Principles of Petrology'' (1916) *''The serpentines of Harford County, Maryland'' *PHIZ: Illustrations from the Novels of Charles Dickens, University of Chicago Press (1956)

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