In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space

New York City: Abbeville Press (book, 1st softcover), 1985.

9" x 10" x 0.5".

Book by Douglas Curran, with a foreword by Tom Wolfe. Burroughs contributes a back-cover blurb to this book on "folk concepts of outer space": 

"In Advance of the Landing is a fascinating book that shows with compassionate insight how deeply man's longing for extraplanetary contact is felt. If this is the Space Age, as I have written, and we are 'here to go,' these eccentric individuals may be tuning in, with faulty radios, to a universal message: we must be ready at any time to make the leap into Space." 

Bibliographic Information: 

• Shoaf II.204 (There is also a hardbound edition of this title [Shoaf II.204a])