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Random House, 2025. Hardcover. New/New. New! Online orders will ship after release date (11/04/2025). 'God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where 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 when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Smith starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic recordings and songs such as Horses and Easter, 'Dancing Barefoot' and 'Because the Night.' 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, with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again-the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live'-- [publisher].

Random House. F/F. 2022. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. First edition in DJ fine in fine DJ. ; 7.4 X 5.5 X 1.5 inches; 400 pages .

Ecco, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x5x8. Clean No Gift Inscription, 1St Edition With The 1 On The Copy Right Page. Not Price Clipped. This Book Is Not Signed.- Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

NY: Vintage, 2020. Bound in black, gray and white self-wraps, illustrated by photos by Ms. Smith. Signed by the author (signature only) on the title page. 207 pp. Damp stain to rear panel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Published.

First edition/first printing. Square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket has no rips or creases. Not a remainder.

Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 1892041073 . Toned b&w photos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 144 pages; 1999 Arena Editions. Oversize HC/DJ 1st trade edition. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Lavishly and beautifully printed on heavy paper. Just trace shelf/handling evidence to jacket edges and a superficial shelf tap bottom front corners. Handsome copy. NF/NF ... Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .

Arena Editions, December 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Minor dent to the center of the front coverboard that is only notable in the right light or when felt. Otherwise a Fine copy. DJ is now protected by a mylar cover.

New York: Random House, 2022. This is a near fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket with almost no wear. Would be fine but for a tiny dent in the cloth at the bottom of the spine. Completely clean. Stated first edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. 7" high X 5" wide, 386 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

SIGNED by Smith on the publisher's bound in page. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A clean, crisp and unread copy.

Insight Editions, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pictorial boards. Modest bump to top front cover corner, otherwise as issued. Pictorial dust jacket shows minor surface wear, now in mylar. 1st ptg. 164 pp., illus..