THE MIND PARASITES by WILSON, Colin - 1967

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1967. First American edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. xxi,222 pp. First American edition, reproduced by offset from the British edition by Arthur Barker, Ltd., published in the same year. Fine, unmarked copy in near fine dust jacket designed by Frank Utpatel with a lightly sunned spine and small rub near the toe of spine. 

"The time is the end of the twentieth century. The story begins with the suicide of a renowned scientist, moves rapidly to the discovery of gigantic prehistorically inscribed blocks of stone two miles beneath the surface of the earth, and soon involves Professor Gilbert Austin in an incredible conflict with the Tsathogguans -- the invisible mind parasites that menace the civilized world, particularly the most briliant of men and women." -- from the publisher. JOSHI 92.