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Patti SmithPatti Smith Group Salutes Pope Jean Paul I-II: Wave San Francisco (1979) $500Quarto. Three Xerox sheets printed rectos only stapled at one corner. Else fine with touch of wear at one corner. The first sheet features the waving hand of Pope Jean Paul I with “San Francisco” and below it with the address of Radio Ethiopia. The second includes a photo of Smith with a newsclipping that warns against her playing in Burbank, California because the show would “draw mostly a homosexual crowd.” And the final sheet includes an image of Jesus, a picture of the backstage pass for the May 22 and 23 Palladium shows in New York City, and the poem “Hymn.” An unusual item of ephemera from the final tour of the Patti Smith Group. Rare. OCLC locates no copies and we have seen only one other copy but with a different city name in place of San Francisco. [BTC#51334]

Patti Smith and Tom VerlaineThe Night London: Aloes Books 1976 $2500First 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. [BTC#347388]

[Patti Smith][Broadside Program]: de l’ame pour l’ame (of the soul for the soul) An Evening Honoring the first true poet and seer Arthur Rimbaud 20 Octobre 1854 10 Novembre 1891 [New York: Gotham Book Mart? 1973] $1750First edition. Single blue folio leaf printed on the recto only. Fine. Line portrait drawing of Rimbaud by Smith at the top of the sheet above the text. The text lists the evening’s program, along with a quote from Rimbaud: “The poet makes himself a seer by long, gigantic, and rational derangement of the senses. All forms of love, suffering, and madness. He searches himself. He exhausts all poisons in himself and keeps only their quintessences...” Also mentions: “special appreciation to the Wartoke Concern, Robert Mapplethorpe, Dennis Florio, Sharon Ensko, Sam Wagstaff and Gotham Book Mart.” A very rare program from one of Patti Smith’s earliest performances, predating her first album by two years. The first of three performances in honor of the anniversary of Rimbaud’s death (also known as “Rock-n-Rimbaud”), it took place on the roof of Le Jardin, the gay disco in the Hotel Diplomat on November 4, 1973. Smith, dressed in an evening dress and feather boa, sang and recited her own works, as well as songs by Kurt Weil and Hank Ballard, backed up by Bill Elliot and future Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye (only the second time that Smith and Kaye performed together). Rare. Not in OCLC. [BTC#349223]

Patti SmithGoing Under [Norwich, New York]: SOOJ 2006 $225First edition. Broadside. Illustrated by Path Soong. 13" x 9¾". Fine. A single poem. One of 110 copies numbered and Signed by both Smith and Soong. [BTC#343219]

Patti Smith with Tom Verlaine, Lenny Kaye, and Richard Sohl[7” vinyl record]: Hey Joe (Version) [and] Piss Factory [New York]: Mer Records 1974 $4500Original 7" vinyl 45 RPM record. Fine in modestly age-toned, about fine plain white sleeve as issued, in the original mailing envelope. Signed by Patti Smith on the white sleeve. Also included is a small, age-toned clipping from The Village Voice advertising a contemporary performance by Smith at Max’s Kansas City, listing the book and record stores where this record could be purchased, and noting that it could be purchased directly for $2.50 from Sunburst Industries. Patti Smith’s first vinyl single, “Hey Joe” and “Piss Factory” on the B side, produced by Lenny Kaye for Robert Mapplethorpe. The record, mailer, and clipping are housed in (and easily removable from) an acrylic stand. An exceptionally uncommon record, the original mailer is rare. This copy is addressed to R.W. Bayley in Forest Knolls, California, with the return address of The WARTOKE Concern in New York (listing the same Broadway address as Sunburst Industries), and postmarked September 26, 1974. The recipient, Roberta Bayley, is a photographer who created one of the most important photographic records of the punk scene as it germinated in New York City, and she was also the co-author (with Victor Bockris) of the first biography of Patti Smith (*Patti Smith*. New York: Simon & Schuster 1999). The clipping is pictured in the biography. Her iconic photographs (including the photo that graced the jacket of the first Ramones album) helped define the New York punk aesthetic. Her reminiscences in Leg McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, possibly the best single volume source of the early history of punk, were central to the book. [BTC#123456]

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Patti SmithStrange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith Pittsburgh: The Andy Warhol Museum 2002 $125First edition. Essays by David Greenberg and John W. Smith. Additional text by Patti Smith. Self-wrappers. 79pp. Fine. Exhibition catalogue for Smith’s silkscreen art work. [BTC#365014]

Patti Smith[Art Program and price list]: “My first true drawings were crazy janes.” Place: Publisher Date $1200First edition. Four quarto leaves printed rectos only, stapled in upper corner. First leaf is a relatively brief (three paragraph) unsigned first person essay by Smith on the development of her drawing; the last three pages are a list of 22 works, most with prices (although a few are listed either from the collections of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff, Judy Linn, or not for sale) for the exhibition and sale of her drawings at the Gotham Book Mart. Several have explanations, some rhapsodical, by Smith. A relatively early program for Smith’s art. OCLC locates no copies. [BTC#368632]

Patti Smith[Broadside]: Mon vieux lucien [No place - New York?: no publisher] 1973 $1200First edition. Broadside poem. 12" x 8½". Illustrated by the author. Some sunning at the extremities, else very good or better. This is copy number 5 Signed by the poet. Reportedly of a total edition of 300 copies, 50 were signed and numbered, the rest were unsigned. OCLC locates seven copies. [BTC#369979]