William F Nolan IMPACT 20 First edition and 12 similar items

IMPACT 20 by William F. Nolan. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. New York: Paperback Library, Inc., (1963). First edition, first printing; paperback original. "First printing November 1963" statement to the copyright page, .50c price and code 52-250 printed to the front cover. SIGNED and inscribed to Charles Fritch: "Dec. '63, for Ole Chuck, from Ole Bill Nolan, Never Chase Gamma" to the front end-paper. Fritz, an sf author who wrote a story used as a first season Twilight Zone episode, also edited Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, and published Gamma magazine for which Nolan was the editor. The two long-time writing pals were original members of 'The Group' AKA Southern California School of Writers, together with Charles Beaumont, George Clayton Johnson, and Richard Matheson. Nolan was a Bram Stoker Award winning horror writer, and late great co-author (with George Clayton Johnson) of LOGAN'S RUN. A superior collection of twenty stories of the future, horror, fantasy, sf, suspense, and twisted tales. Faint soft bend-crease to the lower front corner, a few tiny, minor surface scratches to the front cover, short horizontal pressure crease to the spine, slight age-toning to the pages and inside covers as usual, else very tight and very good plus in glossy stiff-card wraps with a supreme example of intellectually surreal front cover art by Richard Powers, praising blurb by Rod Serling to the rear cover; original printed .50c price and code 52-250 still intact to the front cover. Mass market paperback original; 158 pages; plus 2 pages of ads to the rear. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!