Simon and Schuster, New York, 1954, 1^st pr.  Trade soft cover, 160 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, light creases and reading creases, spine sunned with small losses at bottom edge; some rubs; some ink marks on top page block.  Binding cracked, all pages secure; pages lightly tanned; black & white illustrations throughout; interior clean and unmarked with occasional age spot.  ‘This is the fourth Believe It Or Not book by Ripley and in many ways the most incredible, the most unchallengeable, the most utterly Ripleyesque.  Prepared by a staff of Ripley-trained researchers, who, like the Old Master himself – Curiosity’s Passionate Henchman, and a Modern Marco Polo in technicolor and Three D – would gladly ransack the wildest continent or climb the highest mountain to verify a single fact, this volume is crammed full of strange, weird, and unbelievable phenomena graphically narrated and illustrated in rich and specific detail.’ (from rear wrap)