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New York: Warner Bros, 1977. 101, [3] pp. 4to. Pictorial wrappers with a couple of chips to bottom edge and one near head of spine, general scuffing, good. 101, [3] pp. 4to. Sheet music for Patti Smith's first two albums, signed on the half-title.

Ecco, New York, 2010 New York, Ecco, 2010. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($27.00). SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A memoir of Smith's relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in bohemian New York in the late 1960s and early '70s. Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Octavo.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Yale University Press, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. About the book: Softcover. First Printing. Signed by author on half title page. ISBN corresponds with Yale Softcover edition. Book is in near fine condition. Also included is a signed copy of Patti Smith's "Just Kids" 17th printing in very good condition with moderate wear to corners. Additional photos available upon request.

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.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1977. First Edition, Limited Issue. Near Fine. First edition, limited issue. One of 100 numbered copies [and 26 lettered copies] signed at rear by Patti Smith; this copy marked "O/S," perhaps out of series, though there is no hole-punch at the fore edge margin, and no lock and key set present. Bound in publisher's illustrated stapled wraps. Near Fine with shelf wear.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company,, 1994. First edition, limited issue, number 5 of 150 copies signed by the author. "All of the works gathered for this volume were written in the seventies", writes Smith, a time "which we assaulted - blurring and expanding the perimeters of love, consciousness and remorse" (preface). Many of the works appear here for the first time, including previously unpublished pieces from journals, performances, and Smith's personal papers. Octavo. Illustrated with photographs by Judy Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Maxey, and others. Original black cloth, outer edges paper-covered, spine lettered in silver, facsimile signature on front cover in silver. With dust jacket and slipcase as issued. Fine.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. Broadside. Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of this early, original Patti Smith broadside, issued by New York's legendary Gotham Book Mart in 1973. #36 OF ONLY 50 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY PATTI SMITH (within a larger limitation of 300 copies, the remaining 250 unsigned). A single sheet (printed on only one side), consisting of thick, light-blue rag paper, measuring 8 1/2" x 12". (Ironically, given the connection to The Gotham Book Mart, this was written just before, as legend has it, Patti's 1974 short stint working in the bowels of The Strand).

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Patti Smith on the title page. Bound in original black cloth lettered in blind on the upper board and in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with boards slightly splayed. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light general wear; small spot of bleeding from black cloth onto the verso of the dust jacket. Poems, prose, lyrics, drawings and photographs. Uncommon in the cloth issue.

New York: The Gotham Book Mart,, 1972. Signed by Smith First edition, number 246 of 300 copies signed by the author. An excellent copy of Smith's poem, the narrator waiting their turn on the scaffold while a queen and 30 of her ladies in waiting are forced to dig their own graves. The poem was published and distributed by Gotham Book Mart, where Smith acted as a book scout during her early years in New York. Octavo. Original brown printed wrappers. A fine copy.

[New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. Signed, number 103 [of 300]. 14 x 8-1/2 inches. Old fold, near fine. Signed, number 103 [of 300]. 14 x 8-1/2 inches. "It was for him that I wrote and dreamed," she wrote about Rimbaud in Just Kids (2010). She was also greatly inspired by her lover and lifelong friend, Tom Verlaine. This piece is especially significant as it dates from the earliest days of their relationship. From the collection of Tom Verlaine