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New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 71pp. White cloth spine, cream boards. Red titles on spine and red initials on front board. Dust jacket has a single small, closed tear at top edge on back. Jacket presents well in mylar. Signed by Smith on the title page in black ink and inscribed to Robert & Ursula. Smith's poetic elegy for her great friend, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. In 2008, Smith released an album sharing the book's title, with musical accompaniment by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, which was recorded during two live performances of the material. An uncommon title signed..

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.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Illustrated with black-and-white photos by Robert Mapplethorpe. First paperback edition, first printing. Signed by Smith on half-title page. Publisher's tan wrappers, with front wrapper design by Chris Welch, photo of Smith attributed to Annie Leibovitz to rear wrapper, lettered in black, and ruled in red. Near fine, with some slight bowing to edges of wrappers, and a hint of toning to wrapper edges. Overall, an attractive copy of this elegiac work. The Coral Sea is Patti Smith's poetic processing of the death of her close friend and lover Robert Mapplethorpe. In linked prose pieces, she writes of a dying artist traveling to see the Southern Cross. Smith and Mapplethorpe's relationship was at the center of Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids (2010). In Smith's "To the Reader" section at the beginning of The Coral Sea, she writes, "When [Robert] passed away I could not weep so I wrote. Then I took the pages and set them away. Here are those pages, my farewell to my friend, my adventure, my unfettered joy." . Signed by Author. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Mapplethorpe, Robert.

New York: Rizzoli, 2008. The book is beautifully signed by both Patti Smith and Steven Sebring in black sharpie on the title page. The book was signed in person at an event here in Los Angeles. A photo of the signing will be available to the buyer. . Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/No Jacket (As Issued).

[c. 1996]. Broadside Poster. BEAT PERFORMANCE, SIGNED: Fully signed by Herbert Huncke and dated May 9, 1996 for the poet Janine Pommy Vega, a close friend and associate with Huncke. The event was held Friday, October 6, 1995 at the Smith Baker Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph of Herbert Huncke is by Magnus Reed and the photograph of Patti Smith is by Chris Felver - two photographs. 16 x 20 inches close to fine handsome broadside poster ideal for framing. Please: all print broadside shipping is by Priority Mail which requires extra costs to be invoiced and/or payment by Paypal or personal check.

New York: Gotham Book Mark. 45 pages. First Edition stated. Signed by Patti Smith on the front cover. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1973.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. Title page illustrated by Howard Michels, 45 pp. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers with photograph of Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe, some toning and superficial scratches to cover, fine. First edition. Title page illustrated by Howard Michels, 45 pp. 8vo. Signed on the cover by Smith in black ink.

New York: SOOJ Press, 2005. Edition of 30, signed by the author and artist. Printed broadside on Arches paper, with two images by Path Soong. 1 vols. 13 x 8.5 inches. Edition of 30, signed by the author and artist. Printed broadside on Arches paper, with two images by Path Soong. 1 vols. 13 x 8.5 inches. Patti Smith’s lyric accompanied by two images by Path Soong, signed by each, in a limitation of 30. Smith first released “Paths That Cross” on her 1988 album Dream of Life.

2015. 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.

1994. 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.