A USELESS DEATH - CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT, TOGETHER WITH A SIGNED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION

by Patti Smith

$12,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

New York: S.i., n.d. but 1970-1972 . Smith's working typescript for this early poetry chapbook – one of two published the same year Smith's book Seventh Heaven was published by Telegraph Books – containing a poem Smith first wrote in 1970. Published and distributed by The Gotham Book Mart, where during her early years in New York Smith often supplemented her income by scouting rare books on the side. A single poem, narrated by someone on a scaffold

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