Search Results: Conspiracy Theories from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Moorabbin, Victoria: Victorian U.F.O. Research Society, 1993. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Fine condition. "Flying saucers vs. Flying Tomales" and other important research. OCLC locates holdings in only one North American institution, at Ohio State.

Moorabbin, Victoria: Victorian U.F.O. Research Society, 1993. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Fine condition. UFO news, both domestic and international, from Michigan to Tasmania to Puerto Rico. OCLC locates holdings in only one North American institution, at Ohio State.

[Salisbury, Wiltshire: Wessex Books, 2002]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 64pp.; illus. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the Wessex Series.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); two toned cloth in black and green; titled in white on cover and white and lime green on the spine. dustjacket; 302pp.; illustrated with photographs. Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95) with long tear along lower rear flap; nicks to the extremities; minor foxing to rear flap; large scuff from sticker removal on lower front panel, colored in green. Very Good. Inspiration for the 1988 American sports drama film directed by John Sayles, starring Charlie Sheen and John Cusack. "The most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!...Now after painstaking research, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene by scene story of this fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the series in Cincinnati." (from the dustjacket). .

Beverly Hills: L.F.P. Inc, 1993. First Edition. Three volumes; quarto (27.25cm.); pictorial staplebound wrapppers; illus. throughout, many in color. Near Fine condition. Publication sequence as follows: Vol. 1, nos. 3 & 4; Vol. 2 [i.e. 1], no. 5 (Spring-Fall, 1993). Magazine chiefly devoted to UFOs and aliens, though bigfoot also makes an appearance. OCLC notes holdings at Michigan State and Ohio only as of January, 2018.

[Pleasantville, NY]: Reader's Digest, [1998]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 188pp.; color illus. throughout. Minor wear from handling, else Very Good or better.

Ft. Lauderdale: Mark-Age, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 60pp. Minor wear and toning, previous owner has neatly colored in cover illustration, else Very Good or better. We find no record of this title or the serial in OCLC as of January, 2018.

London: Context Research, 1983. First Edition. Quarto typescript folded into octavo (21cm.) bound in yellow printed card wrappers; 8pp. Fine condition. Unlocated in OCLC as of January, 2018.

[Hasting-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Frederick Upham Adams, ca. 1912]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; 24pp. Wrapper edges a bit toned, else about Fine. WITH the rather elusive large bifolium insert to accompany p. 19 of the pamphlet. Insert with clean tears from previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning. Insert provides several "Tests" and reproduces manuscript documents to show the "Dramatic Collapse of a Plot Which Disgraces American Journalism." William Lorimer was a United States Senator from Illinois from 1909 to 1912, when the Senate held his election as invalid due to corrupt methods, including buying votes, to win the election. Adams' exposé did not have the intended effect; Lorimer ended his career in the lumber industry rather than the House of Representatives.

Chicago: We The People!, [1964]. Prospectus. Printed both sides of a single sheet, 43cm x 28cm (17" x 11"). Text (recto) in three columns with graphic vignettes; text (verso) in four columns with single inset portrait. Old folds; faint creases to margins; Very Good or better. Prospectus for this long-running right-wing monthly, edited by prolific far-right gadfly and conspiracy theorist Harry T Everingham to promote his somewhat shadowy advocacy group "We The People!," self-described here as a group of "...well-informed citizens ...joined together...to arouse other Americans from their general apathy and to stand up and fight while we still have some freedom with which to fight!" The group's stated aims were generally nativist and anti-communist, but in later years Everingham would be associated with such classic conspiracy pamphlets as "The Gas Shortage Was Created as Part of the Plan of Those Who Aim to Control Our Lives" (1979) and "Reds Placed AIDS Virus in Vaccine in U.N. World Health… Read More

London: Lionel Beer, 1969-1970. Slim quartos (25.25cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; illus. Near Fine condition. "An Independent magazine specialising in World UFO News and the Flying Saucer Scene." Publication sequence as follows: Vol. 5, no. 4; Vol. 6, nos. 1-3. OCLC locates no copies in the United States as of January, 2018.

New York: Global Communications, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 68pp.; illus. Light soil and wear from handling, else Near Fine. This edition unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018, though two variants have been catalogued.

Los Angeles: UFO Contact/Newsline, 1986. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's clear plastic wrappers; 7ll. printed on rectos only. Minor toning, else Very Good or better. Transcript translated from the Portuguese, of an interview between factory worker Ferriera and Ney Pires, "Investigator." According to Ferreira, after becoming ill during a night shift at the factory, he stumbled upon a room full of "robot types" who shot a "tongue of fire" at him when he discovered them. Apparently unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018.

Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Co, [1956]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in blue and red; 61pp.; three leaves of plates. Minor soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound.

[Norcross, GA: Aztec Publishing, 1992-1995]. First Edition. Six issues; quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; illus. throughout. Near Fine condition. "Worldwide coverage of the UFO phenomenon" - upper cover. Publication sequence as follows: Vol. 1, nos. [1]-4; Vol. 2, nos. 1 & 4. Ohio State only in OCLC as of February, 2018.

[Mansfield, Nottinghamshire: SUFORA, n.d., ca. 1990s]. Quarto (25cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 17pp.; illus. Minor dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Extraterrestrials, crop circles, and more. Unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018.

Cedaredge, CO: Freedland Publisher, 1991. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue pictorial spiral-bound card wrappers stamped in silver foil; iv,138pp. Fine condition. "The best UFO book" (p. [i]).

Launceston: Bossiney Books, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 40pp. Near Fine condition. History of UFO sightings in Devon.

Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, [1971]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's blue-grey pictorial card wrappers; 80pp.; illus. Wrappers rather rubbed and toned at extremities, previous owner has briefly colored in part of the upper cover illustration, else Near Very Good and sound. Account of the UFO studies ("Project Sign," "Project Grudge," and "Project Blue Book") conducted at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during the late 1940s.

[Walmgate, York]: Yorkshire Evening Press, [1996]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's glossy black pictorial card wrappers; 65pp.; illus. Fine condition.