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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 a guiding spirit of the bush. This book combines historical fact with entertaining fiction and modern humbug.

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 puzzled by the strange case he investigated, involving the death of Henry Thomas in 1980, in which Thomas was reduced to ashes in his house, which was otherwise untouched by fire.

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 by ASSAP (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena).

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.

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.

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 ushered in the modern UFO era. Consists of a transcript of Arnold's report, plus four FBI evaluative documents. (Undated facsimile. The photocopied text is partly blurred and difficult to read, and some words have been blacked out on the FBI reports.).

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 a photo of the Martian. This book was later exposed as a hoax written by British astronomer Patrick Moore to demonstrate the gullibility of the British public. First edition.

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 investigator during a lifetime's research.

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 issues. Volume 11(3) is a memorial issue to astronomer J. Allen Hynek, founder of CUFOS, who had recently died.

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 1 to 6 including combined 3/4), volume 5 (1980, nos 1, 2), volume 7 (1982, nos 4 to 6), volume 8 (1983, nos 1 to 3), volume 10 (1985, no 4). Total of 14 issues.

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.

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.

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, because few if any fragments have been found.

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, and whether governments and military has hushed up this topic. This first paperback edition has an insert of b&w photos.

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 duplicates, title differs), 1977 to 1979. UFO Newsletter: nos 51 (x2, one being a photocopy), 52 (x2), 53. Australian UFO Newsletter: no 54-55 combined issue. Australian UFO Researcher: nos 56-57 combined, 58-59 combined, 60 (x2).

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 to December, 1996). Volume 1(1) differs (52 pages, expanded first issue, covers detached & foxed). The issues cover crop circles, alien abductions, Brisbane seminar papers, and the visit of Prof. John Mack to Sydney.

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 defy immediate rational explanation.

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 of the major UFO reports worldwide during the past 50 years. If half these things are true, the world is a far stranger place than we imagine. If they’re not true, the same can be said about the human mind. (Australian edition, with local introduction by UFO researcher Bill Chalker.).