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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.

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.

First edition, first and only printing. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies (this being #7/50), signed by Davis, in a deluxe clamshell box, with an original, framed 10-1/2 x 10-1/2 inch toned gelatin silver print "Meroe, Sudan, 1988" (print edition of 50 also numbered and signed in black ink by Davis on verso). The print is mounted in a custom hardwood frame with special ply double-cloth mat by noted framer Randolph Laub. Hardcover. Cloth, no dust jacket as issued (for Limited Edition). Photographs by Lynn Davis. Edited by David Whitney. Texts by Patti Smith and Rudolph Wurlitzer. 136 pp. with 60 four-color plates. 11-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. New in publisher's original packaging (book, print and clamshell box all in flawless, pristine condition). From the publisher: "Over the years, Lynn Davis has become widely celebrated for her large-scale photographs of "monuments" of the human and natural landscape. Her forthcoming monograph, Monument, presents images made in Egypt, Australia, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Lebanon, Greenland, and the United States. Whether depicting the ancient pyramids of Giza, the temples of Cambodia, or the icebergs of Greenland, Davis articulates both the omnipotent forces of nature and the most resolute building endeavors ever undertaken by man. Davis's aesthetic is cool and refined, her sparse composition and controlled modeling of light evoke solitude and contemplation." From David Fahey: "Randolph Laub is quite simply a master framer. He is someone you can trust to create an individual frame that compliments the spirit and physical characteristics of artwork and enhances the character of a photograph. Many of the artists and collectors from the Fahey/Klein Gallery, including myself, have been among his longtime regular clients and we often refer to his frames as works of art in their own right." Signed by Author.

Rare collection of first and limited editions, catalogs and magazines signed by American rock legend Patti Smith. Approximately twenty volumes, each signed by Smith, the collection includes a first edition of New Women in Rock (New York: Delilah/Putnam, 1982), a signed limited edition of Rimbaud (Zurich: Vasellari, 1991), a first edition of Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith (Pittsburgh: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2002), a first edition of Robert Mapplethorpe Portraits Patti Smith Dessins (Paris: Baudoin Lebon, 1998), the July/August 1996 issue of Option Music and Culture, the March 1998 issue of Time Out: New York, several copies of the November 2011 issue of Interview, a January 1998 issue of Goldmine, and a collection of photograph negatives and prints of Smith with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Andy Warhol. Each document is in near fine to fine condition. A unique collection. Referred to as the "punk poet laureate", American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet Patti Smith became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Smith placed 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010 and was also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.

This First Edition-First Printing of the book about Patti Smith's life with Robert Mapplethorpe is beautifully signed by the legendary performer in black pen on the title page. The book was signed in person at the Skylight Books here in Los Angeles on Jan 19, 2010. A photo of the signing will be included with the purchase. Also included. is a combine painting of a womans face done on a cloth head form by Robert Maplethorpe. This piece is from Robert Mapplethorpe's estate and is visible in the documentary "Chelsea Hotel 1970" at 8 minutes 47 seconds (available on You Tube) and in the HBO Documentary "Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures" at 17 minutes and 47 seconds. In the late 1960's Robert Mapplethorpe studied the Rauschenberg technique of combine painting at the Pratt Institute in New York. As he had this in his apartment with his iconic hat on it in 1970 that fits with it having been a project of his for school. I obtained the piece from Art Director / Production Designer William Doig. In October 1989 he was working as the manager in an antique collectable shop in the Soho district in Manhattan. An associate of Dimitri Levas brought a number of items into the store that were not going to be part of the Mapplethorpe Auction at Christies. This item was one of the pieces brought in for them to sell. William Doig purchased this for himself. A letter from William Doig will be included with the purchase.