The Complete Books of Charles Fort: The Book of the Damned / Lo! / Wild Talents / New Lands by Fort, Charles - 1974

NY: Dover Publications, 1974. (USA) 1st Dover edition. No markings, Fine; lacking the dust jacket. Green cloth, xvi, 1125pp,index, no illus. The author worked for 27 years at the British Museum and the New York Public Library gathering material on phenomena from the borderlands between science and fantasy. His research appeared in four books: The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents.In these four volumes Fort organized and commented on a wild host of phenomena: flying saucers seen in the sky before the invention of aircraft, flying wheels, strange noises in the sky; correlations between volcanic activity and atmospheric phenomena; falls of red snow; falls of frogs, fishes, worms, shells, jellies; finding of "thunderbolts"; discrepancies in the schedules of comets, sightings on Mars and the moon; infra-Mercurian planets; inexplicable footprints in snowfields; flat earth phenomena, disruptions of gravity; poltergeist phenomena; stigmata; surviving fossil animals; the Jersey devil; Kaspar Hauser; spontaneous combustion; and similar weird effects. Introuction by Damon Knight. A heavy book. (3.4 JM FO 4/3. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".