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(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.

New York: Rizzoli, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Produced to accompany Steven Sebring's 2008 documentary about Patti Smith. Front board bowed, else Near Fine, with no dust jacket as issued. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.

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.

Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Foreword by Patti Smith. Illustrated from 50 full page color photographs. Topedge and a bit of the foredge foxed, front fly with faint erasure marks, near fine in a fine dust jacket.

Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. An unused copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. 171 pages. The third book of memoir from the National Book Award winning author of "Just Kids" and "M Train" who is of course best known as a rock star, poet and photographer. Includes several black and white images as well. A very good copy in plain printed wrappers with a stain to the top of the front cover. Still, a nice copy of a much less common format of this book.

Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Softcover. Quarto, 135 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is white with black print. Cover is illustrated, black and brown print; light shelf wear. Text block front flyleaf spine unglued from cover. Illustrated: b&w and color. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9, 1988-Jan. 29, 1989, and at seven other cities during the period 1988-1990. Signed in ink by Patti Smith on page 31. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. 1400009. FP New Rockville Stock.

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 printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Smith's acclaimed, best-selling, and National Book Award-winning memoir of her intimate friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. 9'' x 5.75''. Original publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, silver-lettered spine. Original unclipped ($27.00) photographic dust jacket designed by Allison Saltzman. Photos of Smith and Mapplethorpe in text and at rear. XII, 279, [1], [12] pages. Trace rubbing, shelfwear here and there. Else bright, clean, and sharp overall.