CALIFORNIA SORCERY: A Group Celebration.

Abingdon, MD: : Cemetery Dance Publications, , (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Limited, signed first edition. The first anthology devoted to stories by members of "the Group" or the California School of science fiction, fantasy and horror. A limited edition of 1,500 signed copies. From Publishers Weekly: "Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, Charles Beaumont, Ray Russell: during the 1950s and '60s these legendary writers and others formed a SF powerhouse known as the California School or, more simply, the Group. . . Christopher Conlon provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to its history and its influences on the popular fantastic form, from literature to Roger Corman's films to The Twilight Zone. Informative headnotes from co-editors Nolan (himself a member of the Group) or Schafer preface each author's contribution. Nine of the 12 stories are previously unpublished--including Bradbury's "Pilgrimage," SIGNED by editors William F. Nolan and William Schafer at the limitation page. 285 pp.