Matthew Looney's Invasion of the Earth — Jerome Beatty

Avon Camelot 23069 Trade Paperback 6th Printing; First Camelot Printing Oct 1972; original copyright 1965. 160 pp. Size 7.5" by 5" by 0.5". Binding intact; no loose pages. Front cover shows faint folding crease; half title page (being the front free endpaper) has stamp of former owner's name and address; otherwise, covers and pages clean and unmarked. B&W illustrations by Gahan Wilson, including 32 full-page. From the back cover: "The Moon People realize there IS life on Earth because Earth has bombed the Moon!" The Moon sends an expeditionary force to invade Earth that includes Matthew, who gets inadvertently left behind. Of course, life on Earth is full of dangerous animals, including humans, poisonous oxygen, and deadly water. Read how Matthew gets home again!