Dear Customer,
Here is an
extra opportunity for you--in fact, the ultimate holiday gift for
someone--a great line-up of 1950s UFO books in often fine
condition. This will be sold as a collection only, and you
have only until 3 P.M. Eastern U.S. time, Sunday, Nov. 28, to
act on the offering. Call, fax or e-mail, but make sure it's
in by the deadline, because I won't extend it by a minute.
Exact shipping costs will be added to the lot.
SPECIAL 1950s UFO COLLECTION
1. Adamski &
Leslie. FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED. BBC, 1953. 1st
prtg, front flyleaf affected by clipping once laid in, else VG in VG
jacket, a beauty.
2. _____. SAME, 4th printing,
just a very nice copy in beautiful jacket.
3.
Adamski. INSIDE THE SPACE SHIPS. 1955, 1st edition, a
pristine copy, fine with normal aging to materials employed,
in virtually perfect jacket, signed by Adamski.
3A. _____. SAME. ARCO, 1956. HC, 1st
UK ed. This copy comes from Australia, where it graced a good
library. Top edge stained blue by owner, else VG+ in VG++
jacket, a beauty--and with 6 or 7 sometimes extensive original
newsclippings re Adamski's 1956 visti to Australia & New
Zealand
4. _____. FLYING SAUCERS
FAREWELL. 1961, 1st ed., virtually fine in fine jacket, nice
bright copy
5. Allen, W. Gordon. SPACE CRAFT FROM
BEYOND THREE DIMENSIONS. Exposition, 1959. 1st edition,
VG+ in VG jacket
6. Anderson, Carl. TWO NIGHTS TO
REMEMBER. New Age, 1956. Thin softbound, 1st ed., spine
is abraded but covers are nice and in general this is a VG
copy.
7. Angelucci. SECRET OF THE SAUCERS.
Amherst, 1955. HC, 1st ed., VG in VG jacket
8.
Arnold & Palmer. THE COMING OF THE SAUCERS. The
authors, 1952. HC, 1st ed., nice, square copy, with normal
acidification to endpapers. Nice, bright lettering. Very
good overall.
9. Barker. THEY KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT
FLYING SAUCERS. University, 1956. 1st ed., nice VG copy
in fine jacket, a beauty
10. Bender. FLYING
SAUCERS AND THE THREE MEN. Saucerian, 1962. 1st
ed. , VG+ in fine jacket. I know it's not strictly a
'50s item but it's such great fun I figured it should be in the
group.
11. Bethurum. ABOARD A FLYING
SAUCER. 1954, 1st ed., good in sunned & somewhat worn
jacket. INSCRIBED BY BETHURUM, a nice long one to a fellow
mechanic.
12. _____. THE VOICE OF THE
PLANET CLARION. Booklet, second edition, generally good, cover
stock faded along edges, interior good.
13.
Cramp. SPACE, GRAVITY AND THE FLYING SAUCER. W. Laurie,
1954. HC, 1st ed., good in worn jacket
14.
Crandall, Lee. THE VENUSIANS. New Age, 1956. Thin
softbound, 76pp, scarce, nice copy, clean cover, about
fine
15. Edwards, Frank. MY FIRST 10,000,000
SPONSORS. Ballantine, 1956. Rare hardcover edition,
printed on pulp paper, and therefore aging, but still VG for this,
in full jacket, small tears at spine base &
tips
16. Fry. THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT. New
Age, 1954, good, will serve until a better one comes
along.
17. Gibbons. THE COMING OF THE SPACE
SHIPS. Spearman, 1956. HC, 1st ed., 2nd prtg., book
appears just good due to some kind of chemical reaction working
through to the outer cloth, but this is hidden behind a nearly
perfect jacket.
18. _____. THEY KNEW TOO MUCH
ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS. Spearman, 1957. HC, 1st ed., VG,
with owner label on flyleaf and discoloration where flyleaf
and pastedown meet. Jacket is fine, with light soil to
rear panel
19. Girvan, W. FLYING SAUCERS AND
COMMON SENSE. Citadel, 1956. HC, 1st Am. ed., good in
worn jacket.
20. Girvin, Calvin. THE NIGHT HAS A
THOUSAND SAUCERS. Understanding, 1958. HC, 1st ed.,
AUTOGRAPHED BY AUTHOR. VG in VG jacket, some light rubbing to
extremities, and light soil to rear panel
21. Grant, W.
V. MEN FROM THE MOON IN AMERICA. Faith Clinic, no
date. Booklet, 32pp, VG, some silverfishing to right margin of
front cover.
22. _____. MEN IN THE FLYING
SAUCERS IDENTIFIED--NOT A MYSTERY! Faith Clinic, no
date. Bklt, 32pp, VG, paper aging.
23.
Guieu, Jimmy. FLYING SAUCERS COME FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
Hutchinson, 1956. HC, 1st English ed. The best copy I've
seen, book is fine (top edge stained red by previous owner), in a
gorgeous jacket (by itself the best jacket in all of UFO literature)
with just a hint of smudging on rear panel.
24.
Heard. THE RIDDLE OF THE FLYING SAUCERS. Carroll &
Nicholson, 1950. HC, 1st ed., just a super copy, so tight it
may never have been read, in fine jacket with just a touch of
rubbing showing to extremities
25. Howard, Dana.
MY FLIGHT TO VENUS. Willing Pub. Co., 1954. Thick bklt,
89pp, VF for this, small scrape to bottom edge.
26.
Jessup. THE CASE FOR THE UFO. Citadel, 1955. HC,
1st ed., great copy, fine, just a touch of shelfwear to spine base,
in 99% perfect jacket. Just beautiful, AND it has copies of
the scarce "UFO REPORTER" and "UFO REPORTER NO. 2" laid
in!
27. _____. THE UFO ANNUAL. Citadel,
1956. HC, 1st ed., fine for this in VG+
jacket.
28. _____. UFO AND THE BIBLE.
Citadel, 1956. Good in good jacket.
29.
_____. THE EXPANDING CASE FOR THE UFO. Citadel,
1957. HC, 1st ed., VG, slight corner bumps, jacket is very
good too.
30. Keyhoe. THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE
REAL. Fawcett, 1950. Super copy, square, virtually no
imperfections, light aging to paper. Museum
piece!
31. _____. FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER
SPACE. Holt, 1953. Stated first edition
(printing). Virtaully perfect copy, in 99.8% perfect jacket,
just a sight to behold.
32. _____. FLYING SAUCERS
TOP SECRET. Putnam, 1960. HC, 1st ed., just a tad out of
the '50s but such a great copy in great jacket that it deserves to
be in here.
33. Kraspedon. MY CONTACT WITH FLYING
SAUCERS. Saucerian, 1959. HC, 1st Am. ed., fine in fine
jacket, clean, bright, and MUCH scarcer than the usual Spearman
editions.
34. Layne, Meade. FLYING DISCS: THE
ETHER SHIP MYSTERY AND ITS SOLUTION. B.S.R.A., 1950.
Stapled wraps, 36pp, first edition of this rare early piece, and a
near-fine copy at that, just a little aging to edges.
35. Menger. FROM OUTER SPACE TO YOU.
Saucerian, 1959. HC, 1st ed., Good ++ in Good ++ jacket,
better than it sounds.
36. Menzel. FLYING
SAUCERS. Harvard Univ., 1953. HC, 1st ed., VG in lightly
to moderately worn jacket
37. Michel, Aime. THE
TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS. R. Hale, 1957. HC, 1st UK
edition. Fore-edge shows some foxing, the larger spots of
which are visible on the inner margins, and the top edge was stained
blue by owner, but the jacket is fine, and it has a full-page
illustration of the famous Oloron (1952) case (where the U.S.
edition has only a part-page picture). Better than it
sounds
38. _____. FLYING SAUCERS AND THE
STRAIGHT-LINE MYSTERY. S. G. Philips, 1958. HC, 1st Am.
ed. Gorgeous copy, fine +, jacket is 99+%, AND it has the rare
folding map sometimes found in U.S. copies. This book and the
Jimmy Guieu are worth the price of the whole
collection!
39. Miller, Will & Evelyn.
WE OF THE NEW DIMENSION. The authors, 1959. Thick Bklt,
115pp, INSCRIBED (by both, but probably written by Evelyn), VG copy,
little toning to cover at spine.
40. Miller, Max.
FLYING SAUCERS FACT OR FICTION? Trend, 1957. No.
145. Fair copy, reader, quite worn, good filler until the real
thing comes along
41. Ruppelt. THE REPORT ON
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS. V. Gollancz, 1956. HC, 2nd
prtg, good in VG full jacket, moderate spine lean, still a nice
offbeat version of this classic
42. _____. THE
REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (Enlarged Edition).
Doubleday, 1959. HC, good in good jacket, spine ends scraped
& chipped, edgewear elsewhere
43. Scully.
BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS. Holt, 1950. HC, stated first
printing. VG in jacket which is chunked & scraped at spine
ends, corners & joints.
44. Thomas, Franklin.
WE COME IN PEACE! New Age, 1955. Bklt, 53pp,
near-pristine copy, a beauty
45. Unger, Georg.
FLYING SAUCERS: PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS. New Knowledge,
1958. Reader, physically solid, but front cover discollered by
uneven exposure to air, light soil to rear cover
46.
Van Tassel. INTO THIS WORLD AND OUT AGAIN. The author,
1956. Thin softbound, 94pp. The author typed underlining
to parts of the text, but a previous owner helped out with some
underlining in green of his own. Good reader until you can
upgrade this very scarce title
47. _____. THE
COUNCIL OF SEVEN LIGHTS. DeVorss, 1958. HC, 1st ed., VG
in VG jacket, text block is clean & unusually
bright.
48. Wilkins. FLYING SAUCERS ON THE
MOON. Peter Owen, 1954. HC, 1st ed., 329pp, book is VG
(about as good as it's going to be, given the materials used), with
discolored strip (unavoidable) where flyleaf & pastedown
meet.Top edge bit dusty. Jacket is moderately and evenly dusted or
soiled, spine darkened noticeably, still a good copy of the original
version of one of the best UFO books written.
49. _____. FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK.
Citadel, 1954. HC, 1st Am. ed. Fine for this, except for
discoloration to front fly & endpaper where home-made (probably
brown paper lunchbag, like kids used to make for their schoolbooks)
wrapper was taped down. Edges show browning or
nicotining. Jacket is a beauty, very lightly abraded at spine
ends. Despite all, a superior copy of this book, which rarely
preserves well
50. _____. FLYING SAUCERS
UNCENSORED. Citadel, 1955. HC, 1st ed. Book is
just good, with heavy edgewear to bottom. Jacket is very
good--itself a big plus on this fragile book.
51.
Williamson, George Hunt. THE SAUCERS SPEAK. New Age,
1954. Softbound, 127pp, lacks its jacket and is faded to drab
along edges, still good reader of a classic saucer
title
52. _____. OTHER TONGUES, OTHER
FLESH. Amherst, 1953 (1958). HC, 1st ed., 448pp, in the
nice mauve binding, fine, in a truly fine jacket with virtaully no
visible imperfections. Great day-one kind of
copy
53. _____. ROAD IN THE SKY. Spearman,
1959. HC, 1st ed., VG+ in fine jacket, a real
beauty
54. _____. SECRET PLACES OF THE
LION. Spearman, 1958. HC, 1st ed., VG in VG jacket, very
nice
55. _____., and McCoy, John. UFOS
CONFIDENTIAL. The authors, 1958. HC, 100pp, 1st
ed. Fine in VG jacket, very nice. Bookshop stamp on
title page is only real quibble.
56. _____ (as "Brother
Philip"). SECRET OF THE ANDES. Spearman, 1973
(1961). HC, 7th prtg. VG in VG jacket, some scuffing to
front panel. It's out of the '50s but included here for the
sake of author completeness
THE PRICE OF THE LOT IS
$3325.00. I WILL FIND A FEW EXTRA '50S ITEMS TO INCLUDE WITH
THE "OFFICIAL" LISTING, TO MAKE THE COLLECTION JUST THAT MUCH
SWEETER. REMEMBER, YOU HAVE UNTIL 3 P.M. EASTERN U.S. TIME,
SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 2004 TO SPEAK FOR THIS COLLECTION. OFFER WILL
BE WITHDRAWN IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER. IF YOU CAN'T BUY
IT, PLEASE ALERT WHATEVER UFO-FRIENDS YOU HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT
WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME LEFT.
Thank you,
Bob
Girard / Arcturus Books Inc
Phone:
772-398-0796
Fax: 772-337-1701
E-mail:
rgirard321@aol.com
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