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326.
A Useless Death.
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First edition of this poetry chapbook, limited to 300 copies numbered and SIGNED by Patti Smith (this one #33). Pale brown stapled wrps., 8pp. (incl. cover). Cover art by the author.
Smith’s second book, a poem about a person on a scaffold waiting to die while watching the execution of a queen and her 30 ladies in waiting, who are all forced to dig their own graves. Colophon states “Dedicated to Isaac Newton and Kim Novak” (the front cover depicts a woman falling through the air, hence gravity and “Vertigo”). Written in 1970 and published and distributed by The Gotham Book Mart, for whom Smith worked as a book scout.
Light creasing and faint, barely discernible impressions to wrappers; tiny mark to upper wrapper; o/w Near Fine.
