Those Idiots from Earth by Richard Wilson 1957 First Edition Ballantine No. 237

Description: Title of your page goes here Those Idiots from Earth by Richard Wilson 1957 First Edition Ballantine No. 237 Vintage Paperback Title - Those Idiots from Earth Author - Richard Wilson / Pages - 160 Publishing - The book includes ten stories written by Richard Wilson and previously published separately between 1952 and 1956 in various science fiction periodicals and digests. As a book this collection of stories was copyrighted by the author in 1957 and published in paperback form as a first edition by Ballantine Books as Ballantine Book No. 237. This is one of the 1957 first printings of Ballantine Book No. 237. Comment (as stated on the front end page) - "Be glad your human...Not that it wouldn't be fun to be one of Richard Wilson's visitors from outer space-but the trouble is, no matter how mentally superior, or how gorgeous, or how horrible-you'd never win... not against the wacky, witless, illogical, neurotic, inebriated and (happily) fallible denizens of Earth. In the title story, Those Idiots from Earth (an original), Dick Wilson epitomizes a theme recurring in practically all of his writing-the retirement of extra-terrestrials in baffled disorder when faced with the determined idiocy of human beings. This is a theme, however, which takes many forms in the hands of a skilled writer; quietly chilling, as in "The Inhabited", distinctly unsettling, as in "The Lonely Road", or brashly amusing, as in "The Hoaxters". Whatever the mood, wherever the setting-Dick Wilson does justice to all the facets of diverting science fiction in this-his first group of selected short stories". Condition - The book is clean and complete. The cover binding is square and both cover and pages are tightly bound. The cover art by Richard Powers is unfaded. Cover wear consists of moderate edge wear including a corner tip crease and a reading crease along the front cover near the spine edge. The spine edge is intact. The pages are age toned but supple. There are no torn, missing, loose, creased or marked pages. The book is in very good condition. The book will be shipped in a hardboard package via media mail. Multiple books purchased the same day may be eligible for combined shipping. Place items of multiple purchase in a cart then request and wait for a total prior to paying.

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