Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow. First Edition stated, 1996 Harcourt Brace. First printing with complete letter line A B C D E.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and one bumped corner. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned .
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
In Towing Jehovah, the discovery of the two-mile-long corpse of God in the mid-Atlantic proved a serious menace both to navigation and to faith. But was God truly dead, as the nihilists and the New York Times believed? In Blameless in Abaddon, His body – comatose yet far from inert – has been hauled from its temporary resting place in the Arctic to Florida, where it has become the Main Attraction at Orlando’s Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge practicing in Abaddon Township, Pennsylvania, proposes further travels for the Corpus Dei: to the World Court in The Hague, to answer for history’s injustices large and small.
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