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(New York): Ecco, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A collection of poems by Smith who has SIGNED the front endpaper.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER! FIRST EDITION, later printing. Book is brand new and never read. Personally hand signed by Patti Smith directly to the full title page! NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding." -- PeopleIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-Second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous, the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years.Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

New York: Rizzoli.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0847832082 . First edition. SIGNED by Patti Smith & Steven Sebring on title page (433pp. ) (8" X 10") ( Close to near fine in bulky pictorial laminated boards, without dust jacket as issued. (Mild 5"-inch crease at bottom portion of front cover, with a bumped area at base. Not messy, but noticeable. ) Heavily illustrated. (B); 8" - 10" tall; 433 pages .

SOOJ, 2006. Book. Illus. by Path Soong. Fine. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Broadside poem printed in an edition of 110 copies, signed by both Patti Smith and Path Soong.

Boston: Telegraph Books, 1972. First Edition. Early Issue, with "First Edition" on copyright page and $2.95 price printed on rear wrapper. Octavo (18.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-47,[1]pp. Signed by the author in an early hand on the preliminary blank. Modest wear, hint of sunning to spine, ISBN number written in ink on copyright page, with a faint, tiny stain at upper right corner of first six pages, and one underlined sentence on p.11; Very Good. An early book of poems by Smith, several of which first appeared in the pages of Creem, Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, and Metropolitan News, et al. 85304.

New York: Random House, 2022. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($28.99). SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page (name only). This is not a tipped in copy; she has signed on the half-title page because the title page is dark-hued. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

London: Bloomsbury2006. 4to. Black and white photographic soft card wrappers; loosely inserted ticket to 'The Coral Sea Sessions' at The Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday, September 11, 2006 and bold signature to endpaper; pp. [xvi], 331, [3]; fine. Signed first edition of this expanded reissue of the 1998 UK release A bible to any Patti Smith fan, this anthology includes all of the lyrics from all albums including many unseen photographs and those of original manuscript notes. In addition, it comes with Smith's ever insightful and profound reflections on art and being.

A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine dustjacket (protected by a removable, clear thin mylar sleeve)-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures of the book are available upon request.

Size: 104x4x144; Flat Signed by Patti Smith on first page. First Edition. Book is in Excellent condition, pages are clean and tight.

New Haven: Yale University Press.2017. 4to. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine; black and white photographic dust jacket; pp. [xiv], 93, [7]; fine. Signed first edition. Devotion is a unique and candid portrait of an artist's creative process; an intimate insight into the lineage of inspiraiton. From Simone Weil's grave in London to the South of France and the residence of Albert Camus, Patti Smith takes us, not only on a geographical odyssey, but also a tangential journey through the mind of a writer whilst asking what ingredients it takes to create a piece of work that can be considered 'timeless'. As Smith asks the reader, "Why is one compelled to write? To set oneself apart, cocooned, rapt in solitude, despite the wants of others. Virginia Woolf had her room. Proust his shuttered windows. Marguerite Duras her muted house. Dylan Thomas his modest shed. All seeking an emptiness to imbue with words. The words that will penetrate virgin territory,, crack unclaimed combinations, articulate the infinite".