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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 171 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Gray spine with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar cover, price uncut: "$24.95". Bound in full red cloth. Exterior text block clean with deckled fore edge. Mild soiling to second free front end page. Flat signed by author on title page. Shelved in Room C Overflow. 1405161. Special Collections.

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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 Illustrated with 55 duotone photographs. First edition, first printing. Signed by Smith on the front flyleaf. Publisher's brown cloth, with spine lettered in silver foil, "M" in blind to front board, and tan endpapers; in its original sepia-tone pictorial dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson, with a photo of Smith to front panel, lettered in pale yellow and gray. Fine book; about fine unclipped dust jacket, with front flap folded at a slight angle. Overall, a crisp and clean copy. M Train is Patti Smith's follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Just Kids (2010). In the book, Patti reflects on the 40 years between the release of her classic album Horses in 1975 and the present time of 2015. Among the experiences that she recounts are the deaths of some of her closest connections, like her friend and lover Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989, and her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, who passed away in 1994. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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).

First edition, first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies issued by the publisher with a tipped-in page signed by Smith for promotional purposes. Black and white photos. "Signed Copy" foil sticker of the dustjacket front panel as issued. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.

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.

Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features a foreword by Mapplethorpe's long time friend and muse Patti Smith. Includes fifty stunningly beautiful full color images of flowers. A fine copy in green cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 2022 First edition, first printing. Signed by Smith on the half-title page. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards, with spine lettered in gilt, and tan endpapers; in its original black dust jacket designed by Anna Kochman, with a photo of Smith by Steven Sebring to front panel, lettered in gilt. A touch of wear to head of spine, else fine book; fine unclipped dust jacket, with just a hint of wrinkling to head of spine. Overall, a very fresh copy. In A Book of Days, Patti Smith provides 366 captioned photos, one for each day of the year including leap day, curated from her personal collection of Polaroid photos and Instagram posts. The book offers "366 miniature windows and dispatches into the world of the visionary writer, poet, and performer. An inspirational map of a life devoted to art, a timeless offering, day by day, for deeply uncertain times." The photos span a wonderful range of subjects, such as Georgia O'Keefe's bed, Patti's mother's key ring, the table used in Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky's 1972 World Chess Championship match, Sam Shepard reading Beckett, and tributes to great creative minds including J. M. Barrie, Jimi Hendrix, Mikhail Bulgakov, Eric Dolphy, and Roberto Bolaño. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

New York: Ecco, 2005 First edition, first printing. Signed by Smith on title page. Publisher's white cloth, with Smith's initials and publisher imprint in blind to front board, and spine lettered in gilt; in its original gray dust jacket designed by High Design, with a Polaroid photo of two cherub friezes to front panel, lettered in white, black, and red. Fine book; fine unclipped dust jacket. Overall, a pristine copy. Patti Smith's first poetry collection in more than ten years, Auguries of Innocence contains poems including "The Lovecrafter," "Sleep of the Dodo," "The Long Road," "Birds of Iraq," "The Geometry Blinked Ruin Unimaginable," and "Mummer Love." "Birds of Iraq" is a particularly interesting poem, weaving the United States' bombing of Baghdad with biographical details of Virginia Woolf. The book's title comes from William Blake's same-titled poem, and Smith includes a couplet from Blake's poem as an epigraph: "A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing." "[Patti Smith's] influences are eclectic and striking: Blake, Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an American original; her poems are oracles for our times." . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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.