MYSTERIES & UFOS from Bookhome Sydney

London: Warner Books, 1997. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback mass market, very good condition, spine lightly faded, pages lightly toned, bottom edge little rubbed, minor edgewear. 258 pp. (This copy: Warner Books, London, paperback, same ISBN.) A scientific investigation into baffling cases of supposed spontaneous human combustion (SHC). John Heymer is a retired British crime scenes investigator, who initially was… Read more about this item

Sydney: UFO Research (NSW), 1996. Each issue (one issue differs); Paperback large quarto, good plus condition, stapled (little rusted), black & white drawings, minor foxing, creasing & edgewear. Each issue: 20 pp. Four issues of this UFO magazine from New South Wales. Consists of Volume 1 (no 1, March 1992) and Volume 5 (nos 2, 3 & 4, June… Read more about this item

Prescott, AZ: William L. Moore Publications & Research, 1947. Pamphlet quarto, good condition, stapled top left corner, typewritten text (some words blacked out, some indistinct), minor edgewear. 12 pp. This published photocopied pamphlet is a facsimile of an FBI report on the sighting by pilot Kenneth Arnold of a row of nine flying disks on July 12, 1947, which… Read more about this item

Evanston, IL: Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), 1985. Each issue: Paperback large quarto, good to very good condition, black & white text-photos & drawings, maps, edges foxed, minor edgewear, address label rear cover (some issues). Each issue: 8 to 16 pp. A scarce but incomplete run of early issues of this premier UFO research journal: Volume 4 (1979, nos… Read more about this item

Glenview, IL: Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), 1986. Each issue: Paperback large quarto, very good condition, black & white text-photos & drawings, maps, minor edgewear. Each issue: 20 to 24 pp. A scarce set of 6 issues of this premier UFO research journal: Volume 10 (1985, nos 5, 6), volume 11 (1986, nos 3 to 6). Total of 6… Read more about this item

Sydney: UFO Research (NSW), 1977. Each issue; Paperback large quarto, good plus condition, stapled (rusted), stencilled text, black & white drawings, some foxing & creasing (mainly covers & edges), some edgewear. Each issue: 10 to 16 pages pp. Ten issues of this UFO research journal from the New South Wales research group run by chemist Bill Chalker. (3 being… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Five Mile Press, 2006. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, black & white drawings & text-photos, minor edgewear, top corner front cover & bottom corner rear cover little creased. 329 pp. Great Australian Mysteries 2: Unsolved Unexplained Unknown, by John Pinkney (2006). A new selection of the most tantalising true mystery cases from the Australian… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback small, good condition, black & white photos centre spread, pages toned as usual, bottom corner rear cover creased, fore-edge little bumped, edges & endpapers lightly lightly foxed, edgewear. 480 pp. Paris Flammonde, a French UFO investigator, provides a broad-based history of UFO reports from prehistory to modern times, case reports,… Read more about this item

Canberra: National Library of Australia (NLA), 2001. Paperback wide octavo, very good plus condition, embossed cover, black & white drawings (including paintings), minor edgewear. 226 pp. Robert Holden traces the legends and folklore of the imaginary yowies (hairy wildmen) and monstrous bunyips, initially adopted from Aboriginal reports. Later embellished, they evolved into pantomime figures, comic devices and even as… Read more about this item

Thriplow, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2005. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), flyleaf corner clipped, minor edgewear. 206 pp. Australian science writer tells the incredible story of a giant fireball, perhaps a comet, that exploded over Siberia in June 1908, that flattened a large area of forest. It has been the subject of many conspiracy theories,… Read more about this item

London: FSR Publications, 1972 - 1973. Each issue: Paperback small quarto (stapled), good- plus condition, figures, tables, edgewear. Each issue: 16 pp. Supplements 12, 13 and 14.

London: Frederick Muller, 1954. Reprint ed.. Hardback small, no jacket (missing), good plus condition, black & white photos, edges & title page moderately foxed, gilt spine lettering little faded, pages toned, minimal annotation (tick mark), owner's written name. 143 pp. Cedric Allingham claimed to see a flying saucer land in Scotland and communicate with the occupant. There is even… Read more about this item

London: New English Library (NEL), 1981. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good plus condition (in good plus dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, drawings, edges foxed, minor edgewear, sticker mark front flyleaf. 245 pp. Ronald Story provides an intelligent evaluation of both fact and fakery that casts new light on the UFO controversy, especially the 1% of reports that… Read more about this item

Wellingborough: ASSAP / Aquarian Press, 1983. Paperback trade, good condition, black & white text-photos, covers faintly foxed (front cover creased), minor edgewear, sticker mark, rubber stamp title page, otherwise internally very good. 160 pp.

New York: HarperTorch, 1999. Paperback small, very good condition, black & white photos centre spread, inside covers toned, front cover corner little creased, remainder stripe. 241 pp. Subtitle: Roswell and beyond - how scientific methodology can prove the reality of UFOs.

London: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Paperback, very good condition, minor edgewear. 316 pp. A former British Ministry of Defence official reports how he came to believe in the reality of the alien abduction experience.

Sydney: Red Sparrow / Duffy & Snellgrove, 1997. Australian ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, minimal foxing top edge, minor edgewear. 296 pp. The editors of 'Fortean Times' magazine, Hilary Evans and Denis Stacy, celebrate the 50th anniversary of American pilot Kenneth Arnold's 1947 experience which coined the term ‘flying saucers'. A comprehensive review… Read more about this item

Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1984. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, edges lightly foxed, minor edgewear, sticker corner front flyleaf. 160 pp. John Rimmer, an English librarian and publisher of 'Magonia' magazine, summarises the evidence for alleged kidnapping of humans by non-human entities as an intriguing aspect of UFO experiences. He favours a largely psychological explanation. Sponsored… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 2000. 1st U.K. ed.. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, black & white photos centre spread, black & white vignettes. 169 pp. An investigation of the yeti, a mythical animal from the Himalayas, by climber who was first to reach the peak of Mt Everest without oxygen support.