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[Memoir] Smith, Patti. Year of the Monkey. New York: Knopf, 2019. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a couple of pages roughly handled in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. in this memoir, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. For Smith—inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing—this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor, Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape in a haunting, poetic blend of fact and fiction.

Smith, Patti. Woolgathering. New York: New Directions, 1992. Later Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This slim memoir is Smith's account of becoming an artist. Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, "a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me." She discovers-often at night, often in nature-the pleasures of rescuing "a fleeting thought." Deeply moving, Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child "glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths." Smith introduces us to her tribe, "a race of cloud dwellers," and to the fierce, vital pleasures of cloud watching and stargazing and wandering.

Second Printing. SIGNED (no inscription) by Smith on the title page. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A clean and unread copy.

New York: Ecco/Harper Collins, 2010. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing, with the complete number line beginning with 1.on the copyright page. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 279 pages with numerous photographs. Patti Smith has written a wonderful memoir of her time with Robert Mapplethorpe, that serves as a salute to New York City during the latge sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. Winner of the National Book Award. Just a faint touch of edge and surface wear, otherwise, As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box..

NY:: Knopf,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2019. Hardcover. 0525657681 . Third printing. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.; Signed by Author .

New York: Random House, 2022. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Patti Smith on the half-title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges and clean boards. Tiny bump to the spine tail edge. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Photos throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 400 pages. 5¼ x 7¼" tall. 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.

New York / London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. Paean/elegy for Smith's longtime friend and collaborator Robert Mapplethorpe, an imagined journey reflecting his life and early death. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing) with full number string. Light wear to book, faint creasing to a few pages; jacket shows a little edgewear, minor creasing, faded spine. Text clean, no names or marks; [72] pages; b/w photos, mostly by Mapplethorpe.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Robert Mapplethorpe. 8½" by 8¼".

New York: Random House, 2022. Signed by Patti Smith. First edition / First printing. Brown boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Legendary Poet, Artist and Punk Rock Icon. Inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith was Robert Mapplethorpe's roommate. She befriended Writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, had an affair and co-wrote a play with Sam Shepard. She contributed to albums by Door's Keyboardist Ray Manzarek and Blue Oyster Cult, before forming her own band. The Patti Smith Group was one of the earliest Punk Rock groups and was a huge influence of countless later acts. Her first memoir, Just Kids, won the 2010 National Book Award.

First edition. Hard cover. Random House (2022) New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. Book is brand new and never read. Signed by the author to publisher's specially bound page. First edition, first printing, full number line present. Dust jacket hand wrapped in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Pictures available upon request.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic—inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Variety, Pitchfork, PopSugarIn 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she's reading, the graves of beloved heroes—William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith's unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother's keychain, and a husband's Mosrite guitar. 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.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.

Personally signed by Patti Smith directly on the title page (Not pre-signed on a bookplate or a tipped in blank page bound by the publisher). Not signed to anyone. Stated First Edition / first printing. Hardcover. Book is NEW and UNREAD, opened only for signing. No marks, no inscription. Not a book club edition, not an ex-library. Dust jacket is new, not price-clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful autographed first edition for collectors. Makes a great gift.