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New York: Anchor Books, 1999. Softcover. First printing of this edition. SIGNED by Patti Smith on the first blank, with a small snapshot photograph (3.5 x 2.25 inches) laid in. As New. Hint of rubbing along the front fold, else Fine and unread in perfect-bound wrappers.

The Andy Warhol Museum, 2003-04-02. paperback. Like New. Signed by Author. 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".

Hanuman Publishing, 1994. 1. Softcover. Very Good. ** Signed by Patti Smith on the first endpaper **; Very Good in a Good++ dust jacket; Softcover; Second Printing, 1994; Dust jacket is lightly shelfworn and edgeworn with one small edge-tear; Light wear to the blue paper covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Small Format (less than 6" tall); 0.1 lbs; Very small (4.25" x 3.75"); Red and blue dust jacket with image of clouds, and title in gold lettering; 1994, Hanuman Publishing; 80 pages; "Wool Gathering," by Patti Smith.

NY: DOUBLEDAY.. Fine. 1998. First Edition. 0385490798 . SIGNED by Patti Smith on the first blank page. Fine in a fine dj. (B) .

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: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation with Random House, 1993. 32 pages; 9 duotone plates plus one tipped-in plate within the text. A commemorative book of the exhibition of self-portraits to celebrate the gift of the Mapplethorpe Foundation to the Guggenheim and to inaugurate the Museum's Robert Mapplethorpe Gallery. A poem, "Reflecting Robert", by Patti Smith and an essay by Germano Celant, who organized the exhibition. Letterpress printed by the Stinehour Press; Limited to 700 copies of which 300 were signed by Patti Smith; this copy is of the unsigned 400. Clean throughout, including the enclosed four-page testimonial letter from Thomas Kerns (Guggenheim) and Michael Ward Stout (Mapplethorpe Foundation).. Limited Edition. Stiff Card Boards. Fine/Fine. 12" x 11 1/2". Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2015. 8vo. Original publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering to spine and an 'M' in blind with beige endpapers, Photographic front wrapper in sepia tones; pp. [xv], 253, [7]; very minimal bumping to head of spine; otherwise a fine copy. Signed First US edition of Smith's second memoir, named by Smith as "a roadmap to my life". "Without a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality". The title of M Train is in reference to Patti Smiths "mind train", described as a tangential motor vehicle which "goes to any station it wants". Succeeding the National Book Award-winning and bestselling Just Kids, it begins in Greenwich Village, New York in the place Smith frequents for coffee each morning. The book digresses and traverses between time from a meeting of an Arctic explorers' society in Berlin to a visit to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul to the recounting of personal losses; the tragic death of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 of Aids and of Smith's husband, the guitarist Frend "Sonic" Smith in 1944 at age 45 and the passing of her brother Todd a mere month after. Joan Didion would write of M Train, "a book so honest and pure that has to count as a rapture". Smith's audio book recording of M Train earned a Grammy award nomination for Best Spoken Word Album.

New York: Rizzoli, 2008. First edition. Near fine.. Signed first printing of this substantial volume of photographs and film stills that chronicle 11 years in the life of Patti Smith. DREAM OF LIFE is the book version of Steve Sebring's 2008 documentary of the same name. The film debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was later awarded "Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary" at Sundance. 10'' x 7.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color and black and white. 434 pages. Signed by both Smith and Sebring to title page. Binding corners and spine ends a touch bumped, a hint of edgewear. Clean and tight.

Yale University Press. Used - Very Good. Signed by Patti Smith directly on the front free endpaper. 1st Edition, 1st Printing.