Found it in the attic of a house I purchased. Going to get going on my self hosted COBOL based LLM journey with this puppy.
Part of the Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown book series whose commercials you could not miss on television in the 1990s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4zBYh2PUyk
Update: Or maybe not, according to the wikipedia article. The size, shape, and characteristic embossing certainly do evoke the true article. It fooled me!