signed first edition Hardcover
1994 · Washington DC
by Peebles, Curtis
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed opposite the title page by Peebles to Jim Moseley, and with a note by Peebles next to Moseley's name in the Index. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), creased at the front flap, lightly bumped at the edges. Quarter black cloth with yellow cloth on the boards, a spot at the top edge rubbed to the board. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, clean otherwise. A history of UFOs in American pop culture with a critical and skeptical assessment of cattle mutilations, abductions, test flights, and the superplane Aurora. (truncated)