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N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage photograph of Patti Smith onstage, circa 1976. Copyright stamp of photographer Russell Eliot Reif on the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

[Berkeley]: [Rather Ripped Records], 1974. Photocopy, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 8vo. Creased and folded. Photocopy, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 8vo. Verso identifies this as "Rock 'N' Rimbaud III program, Xerox. Courtesy Rather Ripped Records SF, CA". After the release of her "Hey Joe/Piss Factory" single, Patti Smith played three shows in Bay Area rock clubs on November 22-24, 1974, likely set up by Beserkely Records musicians who worked at Rather Ripped.

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Three vintage photographs of Patti Smith performing onstage, circa 1977, including two showing Smith in a MC5 shirt, and one showing Smith jumping in a vest and tie. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 8 x 10 inches. About Very Good plus, with light discoloration and toning on the rectos.

San Francisco: Sun King, 1977. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Magazine. Folio. 47pp. Newsprint wrappers. Near fine with some light toning and wear. A first wave punk zine that includes the Lester Bangs article, "The Roots of Punk"; Richard Meltzer's column, Bebop on Your Mama; a Patti Smith penned piece on Robert Bresson; a full-page comic by Spain Rodriguez; articles on The Nuns, The Dils, The Avengers, Richard Hell, and Cheap Trick, along with heap of coverage of the San Francisco music scene.

Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain / Actes Sud, 2008. First Edition. First Impression. Three octavo volumes (20.5cm); white, grey, and dark brown card wrappers with French flaps, with titles stamped in silver on spines and front covers; all volumes housed in the publisher's gray paper sleeve, titled in silver; [8],9-93,[3]; [8],9-93,[3]; unpaged; illus.; text is in French and English. Charleville has been signed by Smith in black pen on the terminal leaf, directly above a photo of Rimbaud's calling card. Light wear to the sleeve, else about Fine. A group of three books published on the occasion of the Patti Smith exhibition and publication of the book Land 250. Charleville encompasses Smith's work revolving around Arthur Rimbaud; Statues showcases photos of sculptures taken by Smith between 2002-08; Cahier is a notebook inspired by those belonging to Smith (the first few pages filled with facsimiles of her handwriting, with the remaining pages blank and left for the reader's use). Uncommon signed. 86048.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. Title page illustrated by Howard Michels, 45 pp. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers with photograph of Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe, some toning and superficial scratches to cover, fine. First edition. Title page illustrated by Howard Michels, 45 pp. 8vo. Signed on the cover by Smith in black ink.

Taschen, 2019. One of 1500 copies of the signed and numbered by Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith on the special limitation page. Illustarted with almost 200 photos by Lynn Goldsmith. 296pp. 4to (10.6 x 14.7 inches). Hardcover in clamshell box. Fine. Goldsmith, Lynn. One of 1500 copies of the signed and numbered by Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith on the special limitation page. Illustarted with almost 200 photos by Lynn Goldsmith. 296pp. 4to (10.6 x 14.7 inches).

New York: Ecco, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. From an edition of only 1000 specially bound copies of this National Book Award winning memoir from the singer, songwriter, poet and writer. A very fine copy in blue cloth boards with silk bookmarker in a matching cloth covered clamshell box and with laid in folded text sheet and in a fine example of the publisher's shipping carton. Signed by Smith on the limitation page.

Paris: Edition Fear Press, 1976. Original wraps. Very Good +. The 1976 1st French edition, SIGNED BY BOTH PATTI SMITH AND TOM VERLAINE at the rear (across the photo --the negative-- taken of them by M. Esteban). Crisp and very presentable in its stapled, pictorial wrappers, with very light wear along the spine and a touch of light rubbing to the front panel. A dual text, with the English version at each verso and the French counterpart to each facing recto. A tall, thin quarto, containing 22 poems all told.

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless photograph of musician and author Patti Smith and manager Jane Friedman, circa 1976, with a cassette tape of Patti Smith's performance on January 9, 1976, at Paul's Mall in Boston. Photograph housed in a manila folder bearing the name of photographer Donna Santisi and a North Brunswick, New Jersey address in manuscript ink, and a sticker on the rear flap from Janis Joplin's 1969 album, "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!," designed by Robert Crumb. Noted music photographer Donna Santisi is best known for her iconic images of pop and rock luminaries of the 1970s, including Iggy Pop, Janis Joplin, Debbie Harry, Prince, David Bowie, and Frank Zappa. Her seminal collection of punk rock photography, "Ask The Angels," was published by Double R Books in 1978, which was republished by Gingko Press in an expanded edition in 2010. A behind the scenes fixture of the downtown New York arts and music scenes beginning in the late 1960s, Friedman represented artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, as well as managing Smith and John Cale (with whom Friedman founded Spy Records in 1977). Photograph: 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine, housed in a Very Good plus folder measuring 9.75 x 6.5 inches. Cassette Tape: housed in a BASF case. Not played. Near Fine.