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SWOLLEN HEADED WILLIAM: PAINFUL STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES AFTER THE GERMAN.
London: Metheun & Co., Ltd., nd. [1914]. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. Satire of the Germans and the Kaiser at the beginning of WW I. George Morrow was a cartoonist for Punch magazine. A popular book, it went through multiple printings in a two-week period.
BLAMELESS IN ABADDON.
New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1996]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Second volume in the "Godhead Trilogy," preceded by TOWING JEHOVAH. Satirical SF novel in which the frozen body of God entombed in the Artic is sold by the Vatican to a group who builds an amusement park, the Celestial City in Orlando.
BLAMELESS IN ABADDON.
New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1996]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first novel in the author's "Godhead Trilogy."
CITY OF TRUTH ...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. Satiric dystopian novella. "In the city of Veritas, every person is brutally conditioned to be not just unable to tell lies but obliged always to tell the whole truth, no matter how stark or droll..." - Kirkus review, 15 March, 1992. Nebula Award winner for best novella, 1993. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
CITY OF TRUTH ...
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Satiric dystopian novella. "In the city of Veritas, every person is brutally conditioned to be not just unable to tell lies but obliged always to tell the whole truth, no matter how stark or droll..." - Kirkus review, 15 March, 1992. Nebula Award winner for best novella, 1993. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
THE CONTINENT OF LIES.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1984]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. The author's second novel. "Marvelously exotic action-adventure SF, sparkling with wit but losing nothing of its suspense and excitement in consequence; a first-rate entertainment." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-385. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 423.
THE ETERNAL FOOTMAN.
New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The third installment in Morrow's Godhead Trilogy (after Blameless in Abaddon and Towing Jehovah) returns the reader to a world that is perpetual witness to God's death as His Delaware-sized skull--the Cranium Dei--takes up residence in the sky. Society is beset with an apocalyptic plague; its victims ""riddled with Nihilism... and malignant despair"" as they progress through the four fatal stages of the disease. Each sufferer meets a personal ""leveler""--a literate, ironic demon who heralds death and dwells in its host, materializing to impart jokes, warnings, inevitabilities." - Publisher's Weekly review, 1November, 1999.
SWATTING AT THE COSMOS.
Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Morrow. Collects seven stories. Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Eight.
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed. The author's third novel. 1986 Nebula nominee. Runner-up for the 1987 John W. Campbell Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-789. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #5.
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-789. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #5.
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Morrow on the title page. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-789. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #5.
TOWING JEHOVAH.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1995, Nebula nominee 1995.
TOWING JEHOVAH.
New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1994]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "God is dead, and his two-mile-long corpse has been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean. Through the assorted cast of characters introduced into the story of the effort to tow God's corpse to its Arctic tomb, Morrow satirizes all stripes of believers and politicians and others to boot. In the sequel, BLAMELESS IN ABADDON (1996), the corpse of God, having been sold to the Baptists, is now on display at Celestial City, USA, a theme park in Orlando, Florida." - Barron, ed., Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-273. Winner of the 1995 World Fantasy Award for best novel. 1995 Nebula nominee.
THE MONSTER MAKER AND OTHER STORIES. Edited by S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz.
Seattle: Midnight House, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies. Collects twenty-two stories, eight from THE APE, THE IDIOT AND OTHER PEOPLE (1897) the rest from other sources, many previously unpublished in book form. The definitive collection of Morrow's weird fiction.
CONJUNCTIONS: BI-ANNUAL VOLUMES OF NEW WRITING. #39: THE NEW WAVE FABULISTS.
[Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 2002]. Octavo, illustrations by Gahan Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Original fiction by Jonathan Carroll, John Crowley, Andy Duncan, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Elizabeth Hand, M. John Harrison, Nalo Hopkinson, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, China Miéville, James Morrow, Patrick O'Leary, Paul Park, Peter Straub and Gene Wolfe. Essays by John Clute and Gary K. Wolfe.