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W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996. hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8x0x8. signed by author. Includes a ticket stub for the Shepherds Bush Empire 1996 gig with Patti Smith. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage. Please contact us if you need further information or scans.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1978. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. SIGNED / VG. SIGNED BY SMITH ON FFEP. STATED FIRST EDITION. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SIGNED! ORIGINALLY ONLY OFFERED AT $1,000. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Book is brand new and unread. Opened only for signing. Personally hand signed by National Book Award winner and living legend, Patti Smith, and ALSO legendary photographer Lynn Goldsmith, directly to full title page! Book was signed at an event for release at Rizzoli flagship store in NYC. NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Oversized and heavy book which will require additional shipping costs.A new trade publication of Before Easter After, originally published in a limited edition at $1,000.Hundreds of rarely seen images by legendary photographer Lynn Goldsmith offer an intimate portrait of rock 'n' roll icon Patti Smith during a transformative moment in her career. Images of Smith performing on stage combine with candid behind-the-scenes photographs and striking studio shoots to create a deeply personal look at the singer during her rise to fame. The photographs include Smith's life-changing accident while on tour in 1977 and the aftermath, as well as closeup, empathetic portraits that reveal Smith's self-assurance, her defiance of cultural norms, and her effortless poise. This poignant visual narrative is punctuated throughout by Smith's original poetry and song lyrics.This book is both a glimpse into a fabled time in music history, documenting a young artist creating what turned out to be a revolutionary work, as well as a celebration of an enduring partnership between two close friends who continue to be creative collaborators to this day.

New York: HarperCollins.2015. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth with authors initials stamped in blind and blue endpapers, a blue ribbon marker and with pages untrimmed; black and white dust jacket; pp. [x], 308, [2]; very minimal buming to head and tail of spine, otherwise fine. Signed first edition of a revised and updated version of the original Collected Lyrics including a loosely inserted concert ticket to a Patti Smith and her Band performance at Camden Roundhouse dated 31 October 2015. A revised and updated version of the original Collected Lyrics (initially published in 1998), this first edition marks the fortieth anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album, Horses. It includes more than thirty-five additional songs, including her first ever song, "Work Song" composed for Janis Joplin in 1970. It is also generously illustrated with Smith's lyrics archvied from manuscripts.

London: Plexus. 1994. 8vo. Original cloth backed boards with spine lettered in silver; illustrated dust jacket with B/W photograph of the author by Robert Mapplethorpe; pp. x, [4], 177, [3], photographic illustrations in text; very mild scuffing to head and tail of spine; otherwise fine. First, signed edition of the early works, some previously unpublished, of an icon and master of genre blending. "All the works gathered for this volume were written in the Seventies … which we assaulted - blurring and expanding the perimeters of love, consciousness and remorse. Driven with the collective hope to raise aspects of art, poetry, rock n' roll, even charity that had not been raised before…" (p. 9). Notorious for fusing her poetry with her music, the legendary Patti Smith would release her record Piss Factory in 1974 which many heralded one of the most influential pieces, and anthem, of the pre punk-rock scene of 1970s New York. Early Work: 1970-1979 comprises fragments of writing spanning the crucial decade during which she made a cult impact on America's undergound scene and began a legacy of breaking boundaries in art. It also contains obscure poems as well as prose from her chapbooks, Seventh Heaven, Ha! Ha! Houdini and Witt as well as her iconic Babel, demonstrating both the meditation and rebellion within her creations. Patti Smith would go on to write Just Kids, a memoir of the often turbulent but ever enduring relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (whose photographs are featured here) and their united experience of poverty and artistry up until Mapplethorpe's premature death in 1989. It would go on to win the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction. She describes Mapplethorpe's legacy: "Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He will be condemned and adored. His excesses damned or romanticized. In the end, truth will be found in his work, the corporeal body of the artist”. Throughout, the text is complemented by beautiful, intimate photographic illustrations by Judy Linn, Edward Maxey and more. The more recent writings of Patti Smith, Wool-Gathering (1992), M Train (2015) and Devotion (2017), to name but a few, have been published to substantial critical acclaim.

Ecco, New York, 2010 New York, Ecco, 2010. 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 ($27.00). SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A memoir of Smith's relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in bohemian New York in the late 1960s and early '70s. Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Octavo.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.

New York: Norton, 1994. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Number 50 from an edition of 150 copies. A collection of Smith's poems, essays and some of her lyrics. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket and in a very near fine illustrated slipcase. Signed by Smith on the limitation page.

New York: Columbia Records, 2012. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Columbia Records, 2012. First Edition. Signed by Patti Smith to her friend Television frontman Tom Verlaine with inscription, "To Tom love always, Wing." Octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. CD to pocket at rear. Touch of rubbing to dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to boards. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.

New York: Harper Collins, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This First Edition - First Printing of the book about Patti Smith's life with Robert Mapplethorpe is beautifully signed by the legendary performer in black pen on the title page. The book was signed in person at the Skylight Books here in Los Angeles on Jan 19, 2010. A photo of the signing will be included with the purchase. Also included .is a combine painting of a womans face done on a cloth head form by Robert Maplethorpe . This piece is from Robert Mapplethorpe's estate and is visible in the documentary "Chelsea Hotel 1970" at 8 minutes 47 seconds (available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wtfo9OJAuE ) and in the HBO Documentary "Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures" at 17 minutes and 47 seconds. In the late 1960's Robert Mapplethorpe studied the Rauschenberg technique of combine painting at the Pratt Institute in New York. As he had this in his apartment with his iconic hat on it in 1970 that fits with it having been a project of his for school. I obtained the piece from Art Director / Production Designer William Doig (https://www.showstudio.com/contributors/bill_doig). In October 1989 he was working as the manager in an antique collectable shop in the Soho district in Manhattan. An associate of Dimitri Levas brought a number of items into the store that were not going to be part of the Mapplethorpe Auction at Christies. This item was one of the pieces brought in for them to sell. William Doig purchased this for himself. A letter from William Doig will be included with the purchase..