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2022. Smith, Patti. Woolgathering. 64 pages, including 13 unnumbered color plates. 4to, 256 mm. x 203 mm., in original cloth binding. San Francisco, Arion Press, 2022. One of 250 numbered copies. Woolgathering is a collaboration between two contemporary creative masters: author and singer-songwriter Patti Smith and visual and sound artist Christian Marclay. Smith's first published prose work, written thirty years ago, is an incantatory memoir of the creative process and its wellspring in the world of childhood. Employing a variety of sound ephemera, acrylic LPs, and organic materials, Marclay's crystalline constructions provide a parallel visual score that reflects and refracts the rhythms of Smith's verses and tales. The Arion Press edition of Woolgathering uniquely captures their artistic kinship.

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.

Amsterdam: Paradiso, 1978. Vintage single color silkscreen poster for a March 23, 1978 performance by The Patti Smith Group at Paradiso, Amsterdam. Designed by Martin Kaye. The opening act, Cake, was a Dutch reggae pop group, not to be confused with the 1990s alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. In 1978 The Patti Smith Group was touring in promotion of their third studio release, the highly acclaimed and commercially popular "Easter," which contained one of Smith's most recognizable songs, "Because the Night," co-written by Bruce Springsteen. Martin Kaye, one of the foremost poster designers of the punk era, was the Paradiso's longest serving in-house designer, from 1972 until 1983, with his studio in the basement of the venue. Kaye's silkscreen posters were usually produced in an edition of 125 copies which he would distribute throughout Amsterdam himself, accompanied by his dog Lady. 24 x 17 inches. 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.

New York: Gotham Book Mart and Gallery, 1977. First edition, copy H of 26 lettered copies, lettered and signed by the author. Illustrated. Unpaginated, [16] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers, hole punched with small padlock and key. Some toning to wrappers, near fine. First edition, copy H of 26 lettered copies, lettered and signed by the author. Illustrated. Unpaginated, [16] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nice copy of the lettered state (100 numbered copies were also issued), with the original lock. Smith has lettered this copy “H Ha! Ha!” and signed below on the limitation page.

New York, 1972. Matted 8.25" x 14" offset print signed by Mapplethorpe with an 'X' in green ink and by Smith in black ink. Offset print in green mat, fine. Matted 8.25" x 14" offset print signed by Mapplethorpe with an 'X' in green ink and by Smith in black ink. Features Smith's poem paired with two reproductions of Mapplethorpe photographs of David Croland.

[New York, Paris, etc., 1975. 4to and smaller. Generally very good to fine (some wrinkles and folds). 4to and smaller. A nice clutch of material from Patti Smith’s early years in New York, written or inscribed to Faith Cross, long time employee of the Scribner Book Store, where Smith also worked. a) “Happy birthday to my New York (and very young) mother I have no present for you but real honest-to-goodness love, patti” b) “Happy birthday, Mr Palmer says your spirit will never grow up — Peter Pan salutes you and I say — only flowers in gardens and meadows for you … free spirits and a good birthday, patti” [Undated, in black felt tip pen on the verso of a Charles Scribner’s Sons billhead.] c) [caricature of a bird-headed woman, undated in black felt tip pen, wrinkled] d) “Faith, Good morning thank you for the ice cream — somehow I missed you, I stayed til 6:00 & did my work (no woofs in sight) [doodle of a person with hat] Straw hat” [Undated, in red ballpoint pen on the verso of a Charles Scribner’s Sons billhead, some tears to edges] e) “Thinking of you Christmas New Years & every day xxx I love you, Patti” (on small card) f) Dear Faith, I dropped in to say hello again. My Job around the corner is high paying but sure is lonely. Happy George Washingtons Birthday & all that stuff. I’m waiting on your birthday, Patti (without a drop of soup in my blood)” [On Scribner Book Stores notepaper] g) Printed birthday card, signed “Faith, happy birthday, love patti” h) Dear Faith, I stopped by to see you, just got in from Canada … Things are going pretty well, I’m doing a lot of freelancing Oh Faith! I’m doing a full page story on Blaise Cendrars my literary hero for a new literary magazine called Zygote …I miss you, love, patti” [On Scribner Book Stores notepaper] h) “Abercrombie is gone but I’m still here, merry Christmas, patti” i) Single sheet program for “Femme Fatale: The Three Faces of Gloria, A Religious Entertainment” by Jackie Curtis, where Patti took the role of Paula von Gunta beside Jackie Curtis as Irish “Gloria” Fairchild, and Penny Arcade, produced at La Mama, May 1970. Inscribed on the verso, “To Faith, love to the leading lady behind the scenes! The one who kept me alive to rob the hairdressers! Thank you, Patti!“ Folded. j) Postcard from Paris, postmarked 23 Spetember 1970, “Dear Faith, I found a real neat Turkish guy who feeds me almost as well as you do … Worked in the streets again, the fire eaters are sexier than ever. I miss you as much & more than my own mom, love patti” k) Smith, Patti. Early Morning Dream. [8] pp. [New York, 1972], Pictorial self wrappers, limitation statement on back wrapper: Limited edition 100 [no. 31]. OCLC 16569365. Inscribed inside front cover, “To Faith dirty little tale filled with a lotta clean love — for you! patti smith”. Provenance: Gary Oleson (Waiting for Godot Books)