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N.p.: N.p., 1986. Vintage borderless color photograph of Patti Smith in 1977, taken by Lynn Goldsmith for the iconic "Easter" photoshoot, and struck circa 1986 for a showing of Goldsmith's work at The Rencontres d'Arles. Mimeo snipe in French affixed to the verso. Born in Detroit, Lynn Goldsmith has worked variously as a band manager, musician, film director, and conceptual artist, although she is best known today for her portrait photographs of twentieth century rock musicians. 4.5 x 7 inches. Fine.

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.

New York: CBGB's, 1978. Vintage CBGB'S 2nd Avenue Theater four-page program Grand Opening Concert Bill (the only concert bill printed for the short-lived club) for late December 1978, announcing its Tuesday night opening with Talking Heads and Tuff Darts on December 27, The Dictators and Dead Boys on December 28, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids with Patti Smith December 29-31. These acts would be the theater's last perfomances. Included in the program are bios for headlining acts Talking Heads, Dead Boys, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, as well as listing of CBGB'S Bowery schedule for December 27th through December 31st. CBGB'S owner Hilly Kristal opened CBGB'S 2nd Avenue Theater in late 1977 in the old Anderson Theatre at 66 2nd Avenue. The venue was designed to accommodate the growing crowds bands like Talking Heads, the Patti Smith Group, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids were attracting to the small Bowery club. With a capacity of just over 1700 seats (massive compared to the 350-person capacity of CBGB'S), it opened on Tuesday, December 27th with Talking Heads headlining and Tuff Darts as the opener. Due to the decrepit state of the theater, the cost of bringing the theater up to code, even with backing from the likes of Sire records president Seymour Stein, were too great. Kristal nearly went bankrupt trying to make a go of it, ultimately closing the theater in early 1979. The last performance at the venue was New Year's Eve 1978, featuring The Patti Smith Group, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Erasers, and Mars. 5.5 x 8 inches, Two page bi-Fold. Near Fine.

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.

New York: Arista, 1976. First pressing [AS 0171]. 1 vols. 7-inch single. Pictorial sleeve. Fine. First pressing [AS 0171]. 1 vols. 7-inch single. Nice copy of the single of Patti Smith’s Gloria: in Excelsis Deo, interpretation of Van Morrison’s song, with a punk version of The Who’s My Generation Signed on the back of the sleeve by Patti Smith in black ink.

New York: Arista Records, 1975. Good. [New York]: Arista Records, [1975]. Original record store poster (86x61cm) printed offset lithograph reproducing Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic photographic portrait of Smith which also appeared on the album's sleeve. Old fold lines with subsequent rubbing to paper stock, ragged pinholes at corners, uneven dampstaining. Overall a Good only example of this extremely rare poster with heavy signs of use either at a record shop or (equally likely) a dorm room. Promotional poster to Patti Smith's first solo album "Horses," released at the end of 1975. The album, recorded at Electric Lady Studios and produced by the former Velvet Underground member John Cale, was one of the earliest releases under the Arista Records label. Arista, founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, quickly established itself as a force in the 1970s music scene, signing Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith, and Dionne Warwick all in quick succession. "Horses," while not a runaway hit, was an instant classic, respectably reaching no. 47 on the Billboard 200 with songs like "Gloria," "Redondo Beach," and "Free Money." We find no copies of this poster in the trade, auction records, or OCLC as of September, 2025, though we do locate an example at MoMA, attributing the design to Bob Heimall.

Boston: Telegraph Books, 1972. Original printer's proof for the cover of the first edition published by Telegraph Books in 1972. Patti Smith's first published collection of poetry. 7.5 x 10 inches. Light toning on the extremities, else Near Fine.

New York: Columbia Records, 2012. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Columbia Records, 2012. First Edition. Signed by Patti Smith to her friend Television frontman Tom Verlaine with inscription, "To Tom love always, Wing." Octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. CD to pocket at rear. Touch of rubbing to dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to boards. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.