Close Encounters Fourth Kind Alien by Bryan C D B (90 results)

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good. First. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.78.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 476pp. Blue cloth-covered board, silver titles on spine; lavender endpapers. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends, quite cocked. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage.

First UK edition 8vo 476 pages Fine dark blue cloth hard back with fine dust jacket. Noinscriptions or marks.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Covered in clear plastic. Usual; Bibliography, index.1kg weight ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 484 pages Very Good library stamps and markings.

1995 1ST FINE /FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.00), faded at the spine and edges, lightly bumped. Quarter black cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bryan's book inspired by his hearing abduction stories at an M.I.T. conference. Here he attempts to answer the question proposed by Professor Mack: "If what these abductees are saying isn't happening to them, then what is?" From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson, who was a speaker at this conference and is quoted on page 16 of this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£20.00), a few short tears at the spine edge. Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stray stains at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. Bryan's book inspired by his hearing abduction stories at an M.I.T. conference. Here he attempts to answer the question proposed by Professor Mack: "If what these abductees are saying isn't happening to them, then what is?" From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson, who was a speaker at this conference and is quoted on page 16 of this book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Black cloth/boards. NF in NF DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in color illustrated dustjacket. Looks and feels new, firm binding, very clean pages free from names or other markings, unclipped dustjacket in mylar protector. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 476 pages; "A scientific study of alien abduction, based on a UFO conference held at M.I.T., interweaves interviews with physicists, hypnotherapists, researchers, psychiatrists, and other professionals with the experiences of abductees.".

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xiv + 476pp., notes, bibliog., index, Based on a five-day UFO conference at MIT under the chairmanship of a physicist from MIT & a psychiatrist from Harvard.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine/Near fine (minor corner wrinkle on dust jacket). In Mylar cover. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ferguson, Archie (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition black boards, black cloth spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by C.D.B. Bryan; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Sherlock Holmes; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index and Permission Acknowledgments. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece drawing. "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: cases in which personal contact between an individual or individuals is initiated by the "occupants" of the spacecraft. Such contact may involve the transportation of the individual from his or her terrestrial surroundings into the spacecraft, where the individual is communicated with and/or subjected to an examination before being returned. One might expect that a "scientific conference" devoted to people who have reported being kidnappd by "little green men" would be dismissed out of hand. But C.D.B. Bryan, the greatly admired journalist and author of Friendly Fire, did not dismiss it: the conference was to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and would have as its chairmen a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatry professor and a professor of physics from M.I.T. Bryan attended the conference throughout its five days. He approached the subject with no prior stand, no agenda, and an open (if slightly skeptical) mind. As the conference progressed, he was astonished by the quality of the stories told by the hundreds of men and women who came forward hesitantly and reluctantly with their utterly amazing - and utterly convincing - accounts of having been abducted and then examined aboard extraterrestrial spacecraft by spindly limbed, telepathic gray creatures with outsized foreheads dominated by huge, compelling, tear-shaped black eyes. What most astonished Bryan were the similarities found again and again in these accounts and the consistency of their details. It is here that the heart of the mystery lies: as the Harvard professor John E. Mack asked at the converence, "If what these abductees are saying isn't happening to them, then what is?" This question - and the possible answers are at the center of this richly explicit, serious, and riveting book. Bryan re-creates the conference. He interviews ufology's most prominent psychiatrists, psychologists, hypnotherapists, researchers, physicists, physicians, and folklorists. He interweaves throughout the testimony of the abductees themselves, who tell us their stories in chilling detail. He presents, in depth, the Close Encounter experiences of two women whose stories he tells on the basis of both their spontaneous recollections of the events and their memories that were retrieved through sessions of hypnosis of which Bryan himself was a witness. Finally, Bryan examines the current theories - psychological, psychiatric, medical, para-psychological - that that have been put forward by the unconvinced to explain the abduction phenomenon. Are the abductees suffering from some sort of false memory syndrome? . a multiple or dissociative personality disorder? . Are they fantasy-prone? Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind is a detailed, objective exploration - the most concrete to date - of one of the enduring and amazing mysteries of our time. It is a book that will equally fascinate believers and nonbelievers." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.