curran douglas foreword tom wolfe (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Illustrated (illustrator). First Thus. First thus. Revised and expanded edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth binding, 144 pp. Over eight years, Douglas Curran traveled across North America and recorded the ideas and experiences of individuals whose obsession with outer space inspired them to create elaborate homemade spaceships and even more elaborate belief systems. He illustrates his nonjudgmental account with photographs of saucer-shaped houses, backyard rocketships, and images from UFO witnesses and pop culture. In the words of Tom Wolfe, "This book is the culmination of a quest that, by terrestrial standards, is as extraordinary as that of the people he brings to life." First published in 1985, this book has established itself as a classic work within the New Age/UFO communities and also with sociologists, psychologists, and artists. This expanded edition includes new material on the Roswell incident of 1947 and the Raelian movement. New in new dust jacket.

First Edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo (23cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 132pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Price sticker to inside of front wrapper. Lightly tanned with foxing and light shelf-soil; Very Good. Text and photographs focus on outer space, UFOs, and folk concepts, with a foreword by science-fiction author Tom Wolfe. [85653].

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. ; 132 p. : illustrated, mostly in color; 23 x 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0896595234 (pbk.); 9780896595231 (pbk.) LCCN: 85-9019 ; OCLC: 12078844 ; slight wear ; bookstore stamp on front ep ; color transfer on front and back endpapers from wrappers ; "Curran conceived the book's title long before he had any real interest in its subject matter. 'The title, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, had come to me, full blown, in the middle of a dream one night in 1975'"--Air & Space Smithsonian, 1986 ; "Curran spent roughly eight years travelling across the US and Canada in search of people who believe in the imminent arrival of visitors "--Jack Salzman ; NOTE WELL: THIS IS A PAPERBACK NOT A HARDBACK; THIS IS NOT THE SET OF 12 POSTCARDS ; VG. Book.