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Alfred A Knopf, 2019. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Record # 2233278

New Haven:: Yale Univeristy Press,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2017. Hardcover. 0300218621 . The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture. First printing. Fine in a near fine (a few light scuff marks) dust jacket. .

An Unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafe's and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe' where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Artic explorer's society in Berlin: to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

Random House, November 2022. Hardcover. New.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Red buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Smith's account of her 2016 in which she reckons with "the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.

(New York): HarperCollins, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 279pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Slightly cocked spine else fine in a fine dust jacket.

U.S.A.: Knopf, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket, signed by Patti Smith on a special page added by the publisher, with publisher's Signed First Edition sticker on the front cover. First Edition stated on the copyright page.

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2011. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good +. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at title page. 7 1/4" X 4 3/4". xii, 80pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bumps to corners of gray cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The National Book Award–winner Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a childhood memoir about “clear unspeakable joy” and “just the wish to know.” A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, “a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me.” She discovers often at night, often in nature the pleasures of rescuing “a fleeting thought.” Deeply moving, Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child “glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths.” Smith introduces us to her tribe, “a race of cloud dwellers,” and to the fierce, vital pleasures of cloud watching and stargazing and wandering.(Publisher).

New York: Knopf, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.     Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today. Illustrated with her signature Polaroids.