FATES WORSE THAN DEATH

Nottingham: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1982. First edition. Printed stapled wraps. Foreword by Ken Coats. Signed & dated "March 25, 1997" by Vonnegut on the front wrap. 16pp pamphlet containing an address originally delivered at St. John the Devine Cathedral in NYC in '82 and donated by Vonnegut to the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation even though he didn't hold the copyright. Reproduces Vonnegut's letter to Coats explaining that the Cathedral owns the rights but "they wouldn't have the balls to sue." Fine copy. Vonnegut's signature slightly smeared. Vonnegut's fourth book of previously unpublished material.