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Harry N. Abrams. As New in As New dust jacket. 2011. Fifth Printing. Long Hardcover, illus. 0810998327 . Book and DJ As New. NO markings or names of ANY kind. Unclipped, unpriced DJ; Oblong 8vo; 144 pages .

Random House. F/F. 2022. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. First edition fine in fine DJ signed by the author on a tipped in page. ; 5.48 X 1.49 X 7.34 inches; 400 pages; Signed by Author .

[Memoir] Smith, Patti. Year of the Monkey. New York: Knopf, 2019. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a couple of pages roughly handled in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. in this memoir, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. For Smith—inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing—this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor, Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape in a haunting, poetic blend of fact and fiction.

Smith, Patti. Woolgathering. New York: New Directions, 1992. Later Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This slim memoir is Smith's account of 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.

Stated First Edition. In fine condition, clean and unmarked, in a fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact on flap. Signed by Patti Smith on the title page.

New York: Ecco/Harper Collins, 2010. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing, with the complete number line beginning with 1.on the copyright page. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 279 pages with numerous photographs. Patti Smith has written a wonderful memoir of her time with Robert Mapplethorpe, that serves as a salute to New York City during the latge sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. Winner of the National Book Award. Just a faint touch of edge and surface wear, otherwise, As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box..

SIGNED (no inscription) by Smith on the title page. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A clean and unread copy.

Smith, Patti. Devotion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Patti Smith presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus's house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil's grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano's novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing.

2014 Book in Fine condition with no marks and tight binding. Dust Jacket top is wrinkled, possible wear from shelf use, slight scratches on the cover. Color Photographs 1980-89, 50 color plates His long-time partner, singer-songwriter Patti Smith, composed a farewell poem for this volume. 108pp

U.S.A.: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink directly on title page. 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. Smith's previous memoir, JUST KIDS, was the winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Pristine, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in brown cloth boards in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. Book will be carefully packaged to ensure arrival in described condition..L162/ OFC 1F/ OFC 2R