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The Expanding Case for the UFO
by Jessup, M. K
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Arco Publications. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. (1957). Hardcover. Dust-jacket with losses and tears to spine. Adhesive tape repairs on reverse of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First UK edition. 240 pages. Grey cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 212 x135mm. Some in-text illustrations. Follows on from the author's earlier "The Case for the UFO" (1955). Contents: A Fable - We Begin Again; Echoes of Meteorology: Falling Ice - Falling Stones and Shapes - Falling Organic Matter - Water and Clouds; Echoes of Astronomy: More Mysteries of Space - Levitation - Fossils:Mysteries - Ancient Records and Lore; Fireballs and Lights; Disappearing Planes and Crews; Selenology Speaks: The Satellite - The Silly Little Satellite - The Man-Made Moon - Mars and its Satellites - Before Rockets - Goddard's Rocket Experiments - Bagby's Satellites - Newton's Laws and Space Flight; The Moon: A Case to Consider - Beaten to the Moon? - "Let There Be Light" - On the Moon? - Ice - Atmosphere - Action - Obscuration - Hyginus-N - Spots and Streaks - Vegetation - Plato - Cleomedes - Fracastorius and Schickard - Alhazen - Messier and Messier-A - Selectivity and Structual Similarity - Unfocusable Nebulosities - Disappearances and Linné; Ethnology Speaks: Little People, Green and Otherwise - The Voice of Little People - The Voice of Geography - The Voices of Chronology and Antiquity - The Voice of Psychology - The Voice of Genealogy - The Voice of the Sphinx and the Pyramids - The Voice of Philology - The Voice of Theology and Mythology - The Voice of Witchcraft - The Voice of the Andes - The Voice of the Observer - The Voice of Cincinnati. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19176
- Title
- The Expanding Case for the UFO
- Author
- Jessup, M. K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Arco Publications
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1957)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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