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Good. See scans (some intentionally very reduced). Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Press, 1981. First Edition. The Jessup Dimension / Anna Genzlinger, 1981. Carlos Allende Annotated Copy. Anna Lykins Genzlinger’s memorable account of her investigation into the still-controversial death of UFO researcher/writer Morris K. Jessup – a title so scarce and so seminal that it has just recently (2014) been re-published by Andy Colvin (Mothman Photographer, et al). This copy of the original 1981 first edition is thoroughly annotated by none other than Carlos Miguel Allende (Carl Meredith Allen / reputed), an eccentric and enigmatic figure from the second decade of the widening and evolving American cultural UFO interest (latter fifties to latter sixties, approximately); also accompanied by a wonderfully expressed letter of provenance from Genzlinger’s daughter. Octavo, design perfect-bound wraps, 163 + 1 pp. Good Only; covers are stained (see scans), and of course there are the profuse hand-inked Allende annotations – adversely affecting condition, but of course very positively affecting value. Still quite stoutly bound, as well. “Carlos Miguel Allende” inserted himself into both the Philadelphia Experiment event (or non-event) – ref.: the 1984 movie of that name – and the Morris K. Jessup controversy itself, which is presumed to have stemmed from his book “The Case For the UFO”. Both are linked because of their stated or presumed focus on a group of electromagnetic fringe-science directions – directions which are claimed by some to have caused what allegedly happened in the Philadelphia Experiment, and to include – somewhere in them – the means for interstellar travel. In 1957 UFO author Jessup was asked by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to analyze a number of intercommunicating three-color annotations in a copy of his book “The Case for the UFO” that had been received by the ONR; the annotations presented as being by three entities, one self-named “Jemi”, the other two designated “Mr. A” and Mr. B” (by the ONR), and all three referring to themselves as “Gypsies”. The annotations referred to two types of alien entities, among other things, largely remarks on points Jessup’s book. Jessup decided that Allende – from whom he had received communications that sounded similar – was the actual source of all those annotations, no doubt also partly from his tendency to annotate things, as he has here. The Navy actually did produce a small-run facsimile of the annotated book (by Varo Corp. of Texas), for internal distribution. Morris Jessup was found dead in April of 1959. Because he had been depressive, his death was ruled a suicide. Others, pointing to various suspicious circumstance, felt very differently. That suicide and what preceded it are the subject of this Anna Lykins Genzlinger landmark investigative book, The Jessup Dimension, of which this is the only known Allende-annotated copy. At the time – her researches were largely in the 3rd decade – not many UFOlogists wanted to involve themselves, in-depth, with a compound case involving the ONR, The Philadelphia Experiment, electromagnetic fringe researches and, especially, the (possible) murder of Jessup – an investigator involved in those very subjects. In short – Genzlinger was a bold, inquisitive pioneer into substance, at a time when people willing to do that in that field were in rather short supply. Things have been gradually changing since, but evidence fades. Carlos Miguel Allende / Carl Meredith Allen is largely thought of now, by many, as having been a mentally imbalanced eccentric. But some of the things he said, and some of the things he seemed to know and have familiarity with, and his passion and energy on a rather specific area of inquiry, give many folks unease about such a short and simple disposition of his identity. The presumed-by-some suicide of Dr. Morris K. Jessup only adds fuel to that still-unquenched fire. Please feel free to inquire in any regard. L19n 
