NY: Arista Records/Wartoke Concern, Inc., c. October/ November 1975. NEAR FINE, general wear from handling. UNCOMMON.

Glossy quarto-size b/w card folder, reproducing a holograph manuscript by Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe’s cropped photo-portrait of her on the front cover.

The folder contains:

i) a stapled four-page Arista Records press release/artist biography by Trixie A. Balm (dated October 31, 1975). A freelancer at the time, Trixie A. Balm, aka Lauren Agnelli, wrote for Creem magazine and later formed a band, Nervus Rex, that also included former Cramps drummer Miriam Linna;

ii) eleven pages reproducing various press reviews and articles, including from Rolling Stone and The Village Voice;

iii) two original 10x8 b/w promo photographs, the first an outtake by Mapplethorpe from the “Horses” session, the second a Patti Smith Group shot (photographer unidentified; slightly age-toned, with three old tack holes to edges and small loss to upper edge).