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2005. 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"".

New York: Ecco Press.. Fine with no dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. UNCORRECTED PROOF. SIGNED by patti Smith on half-title page. Fine in printed wrappers. (Slightly discernible rub spot on cover. ) Uncommon advance made even more so signed. ; 5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 97 pages .

New York: New Directions, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing with full number line starting at "1". Signed by Patti Smith [in her distinctive signature] on the front endpaper. Small octavo. xii, 80 pages. 16 photos. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector. All books shipped in boxes.

New York:: Random House,, 2022.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by Patti Smith. With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful—and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process—A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist’s life. Here, too, are photos from Smith’s archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.

2015. 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.

First Edition with 10-1 number line. In fine condition, in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Patti Smith

New York: Harper Collins, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This First Edition - First Printing of the book about Patti Smith's life with Robert Mapplethorpe is beautifully signed by the legendary performer in black pen on the title page. The book was signed at the Skylight Bookshop in Los Angeles on January 30, 2010. A photo of Patti signing the book will be included with the purchase. .

New York: SOOJ. Fine copy. 2006. 1st. softcover. 4to, Broadside poem printed in an edition of 110 copies, signed by both Patti Smith and Path Soong. This is copy no. 1. .

New York: New Directions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0811219445 . First edition. SIGNED by Patti Smith on front end-paper. Fine in fine dust jacket. (80pp. ) (5" X 7 1/4") Fine in fine dust jacket. ; 5" x 7 1/4"; 80 pages .