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SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION, first printing STATED. Book is brand new and unread. Personally and signed by the author, living legend, Patti Smith, directly to specially bound publisher's signature page. NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT. bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting!A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids"God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child's world of the imagination. Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies.The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter.She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Here, she invents a room of her own, a low table, a Persian cup, inkwell and pen, entering at dawn to write. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family.A series of profound losses mark her life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again—the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

New York:: Ecco Press,, 2010.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket.. It 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. 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, NY: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. A pristine NEW book that has been SIGNED by Patti Smith on the title page (not on a Publisher's tipped-in page)! A quality production with beautiful boards. This is an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. ¿Exquisite . . . a magical, mystical tour de force."-Washington Post. ¿Achingly beautiful . . . An eloquent¿and a deeply moving¿elegy for what she has ¿lost and cannot find¿ but can remember in words.¿ ¿Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

First Edition, Second Printing (stated), 1976. Limited to 500 copies printed. Part One: The night. Clean and tightly bound in stapled wraps with pale green covers. Very slight fading at the margins and a few light spots, remains near fine.

First edition. Paperback issue. SIGNED by Patti Smith on title page. (107pp. ) (4 3/4" X 6 3/4") Fine in trade-size paperback wrappers with french folding flaps. The 2016 Windham/Campbell Lecture.; 4 3/4" x 6 3/4"; 107 pages.

Signed by Patti Smith on bookplate affixed to half-title page. Canadian 1st Edition, 1st Printing.

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

New York: HarperCollins.2005. 8vo. Original publisher's white cloth with gilt lettering to spine; bold authors signature to title page; grey pictorial dust jacket; pp. [xii], 61, [7]; fine. First edition, signed by Patti Smith. In the summer of 2005, Patti Smith curated the Meltdown Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London, during which she performed her first album Horses in full for the first time. The live performance was later released under Horses, Horses. Auguries of Innocence followed this success; the first book from Patti Smith in over a decade. Known for her celebration of epic literary and artistic profiles, such as Blake and Rimbaud to name but a few, (“Mummer Love,” is a prose poem that brings to life her muse Arthur Rimbaud), the author of Auguries of Innocence is described in the blurb as a "poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics". As she writes of the beautiful weight and universal resonance of poetry; “it is better to write / then die / a thousand prayers".

Size: 88x7x132; Flat Signed by Patti Smith on title page. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover with fine dust jacket. Book is in Excellent condition, pages are clean and tight.

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..