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No Place: Privately Printed, No Date. Not Published. Loose Sheets. Near Fine. Sold here together are two orignal black and white concert photographs of Patti Smith and Group. Not dated, but look to be from the early 80's. Both photographs are in near fine condition, are stamped by noted punk rock photo-documentarian David Arnoff on the verso and measure 7 3/4 x 9 3/4.

Ecco, Harper Collins, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. A fine copy of the signed limited edition, this is number 3 of 1,000 numbered and signed by Patti Smith. Some wear to the publisher's clamshell case.

[New York]: n.p. [Gotham Book Mart?], 1973. First edition. Near fine.. Scarce original program from one of Smith's earliest gigs, predating her first album by almost two years. This, the first of three performances in honor of the anniversary of Arthur Rimbaud's death (also known as "Rock-N-Rimbaud"), took place on the roof of Le Jardin, a gay disco, in the Hotel Diplomat on November 4th, 1973. Smith sung and recited her own works, as well as songs by Kurt Weil and Hank Ballard. She was backed by Bill Elliot on piano and future Patti Smith Group member Lenny Kaye (both listed in program) on guitar. This would be only the second time Smith and Kaye performed together (the first being when the two opened for a Gerald Malanga reading at the Poetry Project almost two years earlier) and the first time Smith headlined a show with Kaye at her side. The program also thanks both Robert Mapplethorpe (just a few months after his first solo exhibition) and Sam Wagstaff, certainly one of their earliest links in print. A landmark event, one which sowed the seeds of not only of Smith's band and the burgeoning New York punk scene, but inspired by Smith's most important influence. 14'' x 8.5''. Single pale blue leaf, printed recto only. Xerographically reproduced. Line drawing of Rimbaud by Smith to top of sheet above text, which lists of the program of events, and a quote from Rimbaud (in part: "The Poet makes himself a seer by long, gigantic, and rational derangement of the senses..."). Also mentions "special appreciation to The Wartoke Concern, Robert Mapplethorpe, Dennis Florio, Sharon Ensko, Sam Wagstaff and Gotham Book Mart." Two faint shallow creases. Else bright, sharp, clean.

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: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977. Very Good +. New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977. First Edition, issued in a special edition of 126 copies, of which 100 are numbered and signed, this numbered 41 and signed by Patti Smith. Lacks hole punch and lock and key. Octavo. [16] pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated wraps. General rubbing; binding sound; interior unmarked. Very Good or better. Though free of ownership markings, this copy from the collection of Television frontman Tom Verlaine.

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: 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: Arista Records, 1979. Vintage oversize promotional record store poster for the 1979 album. Cover photograph by Smith's longtime friend and former partner Robert Mapplethorpe. Punk poet laureate Smith's fourth album, produced by Todd Rundgren, and the third and final album released from the Patti Smith Group. Featuring the classic tracks, "Frederick," dedicated to Smith's fiancé, MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, and "Dancing Barefoot," named one of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, covered by artists as diverse as U2, Allison Moorer, Pearl Jam, and Simple Minds, among others. 36 x 36 inches, on heavy cardboard stock, with two small grommets for hanging at top corners and a center horizontal fold, as issued. Light edgewear and faint rubbing at the extremities, else Near Fine.

London: Aloes Books, 1976. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. String-tied red printed wrappers. Fine. Twenty-two poems written alternately by Smith and Verlaine. This is copy number 13 of 22 hand-numbered copies with a Rimbaud piece Signed by Patti Smith bound in. The colophon indicates that there were 25 copies signed by both poets, but Verlaine signed none, and the handwritten limitation seems to indicate that there were 22 copies rather than either the 25 stated, or the 20 we've heard speculated. Rare.