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SCARCE SIGNED! Brand new, never read. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, second printing. Personally flat signed directly to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for years of worry free reading/collecting! This book is pristine. Opened only for Ms. Smith to sign. 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. A radiant new autobiographical piece, Two Worlds (which was not in the original 1992 Hanuman edition of Woolgathering), and the author s photographs and illustrations are also included. Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation with Smith s beautiful style, acclaimed as glorious (NPR), spellbinding (Booklist), rare and ferocious (Salon), and shockingly beautiful (New York Magazine). Black-and-white illustrations

Random House, New York, 2022 New York: Random House, 2022. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($28.99). SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page (name only). This is not a tipped in copy; she has signed on the half-title page because the title page is dark-hued. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New.

New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Claire Alexandra Hatfield (Front of Jacket photogr. [12], 253, [7] pages. Illustrations. DJ has some edge wear. Signed by the author sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. Chapters include Cafe 'Ino; Changing Channels; Animal Crackers; The Flea Draws Blood; Hill of Beans; Clock with No Hands; The Well; Wheel of Fortune; How I Lost the Wind-Up Bird; Her Name Was Sandy; Vecchia Zimarrra; Mu; Tempest Air Demons; A Dream of Alfred Wegener; Road to Larache; Covered Ground; How Linden Kills the Thing She Loves; Valley of the Lost; and The Hour of Noon. Contains slight pencil underlining. Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate", Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. It reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978 and number five in the U.K. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former long-time roommate and partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. She placed 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010 and was also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize. This book was the winner of the National Book Award. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. Woven through this book are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, this book 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. The book also contains 53 black and white drawings. There is also some pencil underlining on several pages. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, as well as singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan, and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Derived from a Kirkus review: Iconic poet, writer, and artist Smith articulates the pensive rhythm of her life through the stations of her travels. Spending much of her time crouched in a corner table of a Greenwich Village cafe sipping coffee, jotting quixotic notes in journals, and "plotting my next move," the author reflects on the places she's visited, the personal intercourse, and the impact each played on her past and present selves. She describes a time in 1978 when she planned to open her own cafe, but her plans changed following a chance meeting with MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, who swiftly stole and sealed her heart with marriage and children. A graceful, ruminative tour guide, Smith writes of traveling together with Fred armed with a vintage 1967 Polaroid to Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in northwest French Guiana, then of solitary journeys to Frida Kahlo's Mexican Casa Azul and to the graves of Sylvia Plath, Jean Genet, and a swath of legendary Japanese filmmakers. After being seduced by Rockaway Beach in Queens and indulgently purchasing a ramshackle bungalow there, the property was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy-though she vowed to rebuild. In a hazy, often melancholy narrative, the author synchronizes past memories and contemporary musings on books, art, and Michigan life with Fred. Preferring to write productively from the comfort of her bed, Smith vividly describes herself as "an optimistic zombie propped up by pillows, producing pages of somnambulistic fruit." She spent seasons of lethargy binge-watching crime TV, arguing with her remote control, venturing out to a spontaneous and awkward meeting with chess great Bobby Fischer, and trekking off to interview Paul Bowles in Tangiers. No matter the distance life may take her, Smith always recovers some semblance of normalcy with the simplistic pleasures of a deli coffee on her Gotham stoop, her mind constantly buoyed by humanity, art, and memory. Not as focused as Just Kids, but an atmospheric, moody, and bittersweet memoir to be savored and pondered.

New York: HarperCollins, 2010 First edition, first printing. Signed by Smith on title page. Publisher's purple cloth, with Smith and Mapplethorpe's initials in blind to front board, spine lettered in silver foil, and black endpapers; in its original purple pictorial dust jacket designed by Allison Saltzman, with a 1969 photo of Smith and Mapplethorpe to front panel, lettered in gray. Touch of wear to head of spine, else fine book; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with a few faint creases to head of spine and top edge of jacket, and light toning to top and bottom edges of front and rear flaps. Overall, an excellent signed copy of Smith's universally acclaimed memoir. Just Kids documents the relationship between singer-songwriter Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who together played a major role in shaping the underground art and punk rock movements in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to being Smith's roommate and lover, Mapplethorpe photographed her and those iconic images later became the covers to her music albums. The memoir chronicles their childhoods, first encounters in New York, romantic relationship, tenure at the Chelsea Hotel, and their artistic endeavors that stemmed from their mutual inspiration. According to Janet Maslin's New York Times review, the title Just Kids refers to a moment in Washington Square Park in 1967 when a couple saw Smith and Mapplethorpe. While the woman thought that they "looked like artists," her husband brushed the comment off, saying that they were "just kids.". Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

NY: Doubleday, 1998. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Smith on the front endpage with the typewriter photograph. Black and white photographs by Annie Liebovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Linda McCartney, Michael Stipe, et al. Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.