BABEL - INSCRIBED TO TOM VERLAINE

by Patti Smith

$15,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First Edition. Item #7655 First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo 23.5cm ; full black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; 12 ,13-202, 6 pp; illus. Inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the half-title page to Tom Verlaine: To the father of my son next to a small drawing captioned gee pop /

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