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Lot 236
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$1,664
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Lot Description
[Music] Smith, Patti. Kodak
(Philadelphia: Middle Earth Books, 1972). First and limited edition, #27/100 copies signed and numbered by Smith. 8vo. Unpaginated. No. 3 in Series 1 of the Middle Earth Pamphlet series. Original stiff printed wrappers, front cover with white silhouette of Smith based on the photograph of her by her close friend, Robert Mapplethorpe, soiling to front wrapper, wear along extremities and spine.
A very good copy of Patti Smith's third book, the rarest of all of her works. Comprising nine poems, including the early poetic version of "Radondo Beach" that would feature on her 1975 debut studio album Horses.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.


