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Offering: Patti Smith. A Book of Days. NYC: Random House, 2022. First edition. Near fine in like DJ. Signed by Smith on the half title.We all know about Patti: born December 30, 1946, in Chicago; multifaceted American artist renowned for her contributions to music, poetry, and visual arts. Emerging in the 1970s, she became a pivotal figure in the New York City punk rock movement with her debut album Horses. Beyond music, Smith's literary prowess is evident in her memoirs and poetry collections, earning her accolades like the National Book Award for Just Kids. (One of my all-time favs, btw). Her work often intertwines personal experiences with broader cultural and artistic themes, solidifying her status as a cultural icon.​ A Book of Days is Patti's 2022 visual memoir, inspired by her Instagram posts. The book features 366 photographs—one for each day of the year, including leap day—paired with brief reflections. These images range from personal moments to tributes to artists and thinkers like William Blake and Sylvia Plath. Smith's contemplative captions offer insights into her daily life and creative process, making the book a unique blend of diary, photo album, and artistic meditation.A poetic journey through a year in Patti Smith's life, A Book of Days invites readers into the intimate moments and inspirations of an iconic artist. And this one's signed!

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..

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.

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.

Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features a preface by Patti Smith and an introduction by Rudolph Wurlitzer. A collection of beautifully printed images of monuments from all over the world. Includes 60 four color images. A tight near fine copy in cloth boards with some slight bumping to the bottom corners and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed by Davis. A nicely printed book.

New York: Ecco, 2010. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 278 pages. National Book Award winning memoir from the singer, songwriter, poet and writer. A clean very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of this modern classic.

New York: Ecco, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Smith on the front endpaper, with a laid-in ticket to a Patti Smith performance at Chicago's Park West. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95), a few scuffs. Cream cloth with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean internally.

NY:: Random House,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2025. Hardcover. 1101875127 . Black and white photographs by the author. Stated first printing. SIGNED by the author on the publisher's specially bound in front endpage. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the publisher's "Signed Copy" sticker on the front panel.; Signed by Author .

New York: New Directions, 2011. hardcover. fine/fine. 80pp., small 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: New Directions, (2011). First Edition. Second printing. Fine. Augmented edition of the book originally published in 1992, with photographs taken by the author. Signed on the title page.

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.