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[U.F.O.s]. BETHURUM, Truman (1898-1969). Aboard a Flying Saucer. (Non-fiction. A true story of personal experience..) Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., Publishers, [1954]. 8vo. Illustrated with inserted plate of a flying saucer, and an intertextual elevation drawing of the flying saucer. 192 pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; publisher's unclipped (“$3.00") dust jacket (cloth spine dull and rubbed, some rubbing to corners, previous owner's inscription and sticker on fp.; jacket edgeworn, several tears, chips, some soiling). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF BETHURUM'S ACCOUNT OF HIS ABDUCTION, INSCRIBED BY HIM IN THE FFEP.: “Best Wishes for Peace in this Universe Truman Bethurum." The spacecraft was commanded by the beautiful Aura Rhanes, who came from the utopian planet, Clarion, situated on the other side of the sun (which is how it has avoided our detection).