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No Place: No Publisher, 1988. No Edition. Loose Sheets. Good. Large black and white promotional photograph taken of punk poetess Patti Smith. This image was used on the cover of her 1988 Dream of Life album. The photo image measures 12 1/4" square. Condition is only good with light creases and wear to the stiff paper employed. SIGNED by Patti beneath the image. Despite the less than stellar condition it would look quite handsome framed.

New York: Sire Records, Inc, 1977. Reprint. Very Good. 45 rpm record in original photo-illustrated paper sleeve. This is the Special Collectors Edition re-issue from 1977 on Sire Records (SRE 1009). Contains Patti's Hey Joe (Version) on the A Side and Piss Factory on the B Side of the record. Record is in clean very good condition. The sleeve is somewhat worn and toned, but in overall good to very good condition. The sleeve is boldly SIGNED by Patti on the front and also SIGNED by Lenny Kaye on the back panel of the sleeve. The record was produced by Lenny Kaye for Robert Mapplethorpe and was originally recorded on June 5, 1974 on Mer Records 601.

New York: SOOJ Press, 2005. Edition of 30, signed by the author and artist. Printed broadside on Arches paper, with two images by Path Soong. 1 vols. 13 x 8.5 inches. Edition of 30, signed by the author and artist. Printed broadside on Arches paper, with two images by Path Soong. 1 vols. 13 x 8.5 inches. Patti Smith's lyric accompanied by two images by Path Soong, signed by each, in a limitation of 30. Smith first released "Paths That Cross" on her 1988 album Dream of Life.

Taschen, 2019. One of 1500 copies of the signed and numbered by Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith on the special limitation page. Illustarted with almost 200 photos by Lynn Goldsmith. 296pp. 4to (10.6 x 14.7 inches). Hardcover in clamshell box. Fine. Goldsmith, Lynn. One of 1500 copies of the signed and numbered by Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith on the special limitation page. Illustarted with almost 200 photos by Lynn Goldsmith. 296pp. 4to (10.6 x 14.7 inches).

New York: Norton, 1994. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Number 50 from an edition of 150 copies. A collection of Smith's poems, essays and some of her lyrics. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket and in a very near fine illustrated slipcase. Signed by Smith on the limitation page.

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, 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: 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. Copy H of 26, Signed by Patti Smith. 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, Paris, etc., 1975. 4to and smaller. Generally very good to fine (some wrinkles and folds). 4to and smaller. From Her Early Years in New York. 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)