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Paris: Edition Fear Press, 1976. First French Edition. Thin octavo. Glossy black photo-illustrated self-wrappers. [16]pp. Text in English with French translation facing. Light edge wear: about Near Fine. Jointly-authored chapbook of poetry from then-lovers Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, with Smith contributing the odd-numbered verses and Verlaine the even. Signed by both authors to rear wrapper.

Pasadena: Twelvetree Press,, 1985. Signed by Patti Smith Second edition, limited to 5,000 copies. Signed by the singer Patti Smith below her image that was used for the cover of her album Horses. Quarto. Original blue cloth, lettering to front and back cover in black. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full page sheet fed gravures. Fine in fine dust jacket.

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: 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.

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: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First Edition. Attractive copy of this early Smith "A" item, printed and distributed by the Gotham Book Mart in an edition of 125 copies, and an additional 26 lettered copies. A stream-of-consciousness poem dealing with performance, heroin use, William Burroughs, Allen Lanier, coffee, Mick Jagger, and Paul Bowles. An elusive and ephemeral item; OCLC notes 5 holdings (Emory, Brown, Northwestern, NYU, U.Delaware). Lettered Issue, one of 26 copies signed by the author, this being copy 'P.' Broadside, with text offset printed in black on off-white stock, measuring 13.75cm x 21.5cm (5 6/16" x 8.5"). A Fine copy.

[New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. Copy 1 of 125 numbered copies, signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo (8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches). Fine. Copy 1 of 125 numbered copies, signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo (8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches). Facsimile of Patti Smith’s typed and manuscript notes for a spoken word performance, touching upon all the familiars: William Burroughs, junk, Paul Bowles, news headlines, and more. Printed in an edition of 125 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. Copy number 1, from the files of Matt Monahan of the Gotham Book Mart. OCLC: 53855758. Provenance: Matthew Monahan; Gary Oleson

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.

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.