UPDATE
The fourth edition is better than the third, being updated: Searching for Ropens and Finding God.
ORIGINAL POST:
I will soon give the order to stop printing the second edition of Searching for Ropens (SFR-2). The expanded third edition should be available before the Christmas rush [correction: by about Feb-2014], and I don’t want to pay the fee to continue printing the second edition. I just purchased two copies of SFR-2 for myself and advise cryptozoology book collectors to also purchase the second edition soon, before it is unavailable except in used condition.
The first edition (SFR-1) is now rare; I know of only about four online sources, all foreign, and none of them deal in American dollars. I believe the first edition price would be in the $30-$70 range, if they did accept American dollars but that could easily go much higher in the future. If you own a copy of the first edition, and you want to sell it, I advise not letting it go for less than US $70 at this time.
Many of the photographs in SFR-2 will not be used in the third edition, although the newer one will have additional eyewitness sighting reports. In other words, the third edition will not just be a simple addition or simple expansion: It will be improved but will not contain everything that was in the second edition.
Examples of Photos in Second Edition of Book
One of the Umboi Island eyewitnesses of the glowing ropen is Eunice, wife of a school teacher, who saw the glowing red tail of the flying creature that came from the sea during a funeral gathering near the northwest coast of Umboi. She was interviewed by Carl Baugh.
Another eyewitness of the grave robbing ropen is an old man who was just a boy when a ropen flew down to a grave and stole the human body that had recently been buried. He was interviewed by missionary Jim Blume.
Their stories will remain in the third edition but not their photographs.
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Page 20: photos in the second edition of Searching for Ropens
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Title Page (as of mid-December of 2013) of third edition of the book (SFR)
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Searching for Ropens and Finding God — the older third edition
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The newer fourth edition of Searching for Ropens and Finding God
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Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur Alive
The strange creature flew gracefully over the highway, right in front of the car Susan Wooten was driving to Florence, South Carolina. Other drivers stopped their cars on the side of the road (in the general area of Bishopville)
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Searching for Ropens (nonfiction book)
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Very interesting!
Thank you, Laura. For those who are unaware, Laura is an eyewitness of a huge featherless creature that flew over a bridge in Arkansas in the spring of 2012.