Description
Author: Jiles Hamilton
Publisher: ALRO Publishing Company
Place: Davenport, Florida
Year: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Format: Softcover
Page Count: 253 pages
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
A scarce first edition of UFOs: Close Encounters of the Fourth and Fifth Kind by Jiles Hamilton, published by ALRO Publishing Company in 1991.
Hamilton, a licensed hypnotist, UFO researcher, parapsychologist, past-life regressionist, , was among the early researchers to use hypnosis in his work with people reporting UFO abduction and contact experiences.
The book presents material drawn from Hamilton's hypnosis sessions involving alleged alien abductees and UFO contactees and includes self-administered test questions intended to help readers examine whether they may have experienced an encounter. Contemporary bibliographic descriptions also identify a foreword by noted UFO researcher and psychologist R. Leo Sprinkle.
An unusual artifact of the UFO-abduction and contactee literature of the early 1990s and a particularly attractive copy for collectors of UFO history, paranormal research, alien-abduction literature, and fringe psychology.
Condition:
Near Fine. An exceptionally clean, bright copy with only negligible evidence of handling. Covers remain vivid, binding is tight and square, and pages are clean. A very well-preserved example of this uncommon 1991 first edition.
Why We Love This Book:
This is precisely the kind of title we seek for Deb's Book Paradise: not a mass-market overview of UFOs, but a specialized work from the history of American UFO and alien-abduction research. Hamilton approached reported encounters through hypnosis and parapsychology, making this an interesting primary-period artifact of the UFO-abduction movement of the late twentieth century.