Inside the Space Ships

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A rare first edition with dust jacket of the UK publication of George Adamski's excited accounts of meetings and conversations with beautiful, superior beings from other planets, and tours of their impressive flying homes. The book's hope is to persuade people on Earth that better ways of life are possible. "Into this snakepit of quarrelling atomic giants and muddled frightened people comes a flash of light. It radiates down from a beautiful crystalline ship in which we believe are men who have mastered their passions and would help us master our own - if we would let them. We cannot afford to ignore them" (from the Foreword). In some ways this book is in the famous tradition of More's Utopia and Swift's Gulliver's Travels, but with space ships instead of remote islands. The book itself has 16 diagrams and photographs, and no markings to the text. The endpapers are browned and there's a little bit of browning and spotting to the outer edges of the pages. Strips at the top and bottom of the spine are slightly sunned, owing to small sections being missing from the jacket. Also at the top backside of the spine, there's a hard-to-see tear about two inches long, hard-to-see but it's there. There's a smaller tear as part of a crease at the top-front of the spine, and a light cross tear further down the spine, visible where the white base of the jacket shows through. There's some wear and creasing around the edges, and to the corners, and a couple of minor scuffs. A small sticker has at some point been removed from the back, so a few letters in the publisher's name and address are less bright than others. The jacket's not been price-clipped. On the blue spine, between the author's name and the title, in faint blue pen somebody has written FAKE. This is an objection anticipated by Desmond Leslie in his Foreword. He notes that many claims "have all been dismissed in their day as impossible and contrary to scientific knowledge". He adds: "I cannot prove to the reader it is true any more than I can prove it is not. The main thing is to read it." Free shipping to UK addresses. Please ask about charges for sending this book to other countries. Seller Inventory # 000723

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