Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Quarto [31 cm] Green cloth over boards. In the dust jacket with light soiling. May require extra postage due to weight. 50 color illustrations. A collection of flower photographs by celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. All in color and featuring some of his final work.
Publisher: Bulfinch Press, by Little, Brown & Company
Date published: 1990
Boston, Massachusetts: Bulfinch Press, by Little, Brown & Company, 1990. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Robert Mapplethorpe. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Bound handsomely in a tall quarto format hardcover, blue woven cloth with title stamped in black to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond a short closed tear to upper front panel, but price-clipped. Foreword by his lifelong friend, Patti Smith. Augmented with 49 full-color photographic reproductions of pictures of flowers by the master photographer whose life was cut short by AIDS, plus a stunner of irises at title page. Stated Second Printing of the First Edition. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Writers
Friedman, Donald; William H. Gass, John Updike, Edward Gorey, Patti Smith, Bruno Schultz, et al.
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Writers
Friedman, Donald; William H. Gass, John Updike, Edward Gorey, Patti Smith, Bruno Schultz, et al.
Publisher: Mid-List Press
Date published: 2007
Minneapolis, MN: Mid-List Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Oblong 4to, cloth-covered boards in dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelfwear to book includes mild waviness to pages, with contents bright and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has mild age-toning, a one-inch closed tear to edge of rear panel, and price sticker to rear panel.
London: Bloomsbury. 2019. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, illus endpapers, pp 173. Near fine condition in like, d.j. The legendary singer/writer documents a year of wandering around the United States, illustrated with her Polaroid photographs, 1st UK Edition. Boards in d.j..
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.
W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1996. Book. Illus. by Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Unmarked and solid copy. Jacket shows some shelf wear, with minor rubbing on the front and some light brown drip stains on the back..
[New York]; Columbia Records, 2012., 2012. Hard Cover. SPECIAL EDITION. Octavo, [unpaginated]. With Banga CD, magnetic place-marker. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs detailing the band composing the album aboard the Costa Concordia. Bound in black cloth with silver titles and publishers' pictorial dust-jacket. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket. "Rimbaud with Amps" aka Patti Smith describes Banga as a "a reflection of our complex world � a world that is rife with chaos and beauty." This beautifully presented edition contains lyrics, and elucidating textual and photographic essays on the composition of the album.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 1st ed, 1st prntng. Hardcover. VG+++/VG+++, not clipped.. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2. signed by author on flyleaf. Dark maroon textured boards w/ gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped ""M"" on lower fc, dark tan eps. Unmarked, clean, solid, tight.
Nexus. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Bloomsbury, 2022. 8vo, 386pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket.. Signed by Smith on plate affixed to front endpage.
NY: ECCO.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 006621131-2 . Fine in a near fine DJ. (Short edge nick & a few mild crimps at head of DJ. Slim scuff on rear panel) National Book Award winner. (GC) .
New York: New Directions, 2011. hardcover. fine/fine. 80pp., small 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: New Directions, (2011). First Edition. Second printing. Fine. Augmented edition of the book originally published in 1992, with photographs taken by the author. Signed on the title page.
Ecco/Harper Collins, 2010. first. hardcover. fine/fine. SIGNED first edition, as stated on copyright page, with number line from 10-1. Signed on a bookplate attached to half-title page. Comes with letter from KCRW/Michael Silverblatt as to how the bookplate was signed by Patti Smith. Book and dust jacket fine.
(SMITH, Patti, Richard Meltzer, Spain Rodriguez, Lester Bangs, [Robert Bresson], Richard Hell, et al.) KLEIN, Howie, edited by
New Wave - August 1977
(SMITH, Patti, Richard Meltzer, Spain Rodriguez, Lester Bangs, [Robert Bresson], Richard Hell, et al.) KLEIN, Howie, edited by
Publisher: Sun King
Date published: 1977
San Francisco: Sun King, 1977. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Magazine. Folio. 47pp. Newsprint wrappers. Near fine with some light toning and wear. A first wave punk zine that includes the Lester Bangs article, "The Roots of Punk"; Richard Meltzer's column, Bebop on Your Mama; a Patti Smith penned piece on Robert Bresson; a full-page comic by Spain Rodriguez; articles on The Nuns, The Dils, The Avengers, Richard Hell, and Cheap Trick, along with heap of coverage of the San Francisco music scene.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Patti Smith on the title page. Bound in original black cloth lettered in blind on the upper board and in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with boards slightly splayed. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light general wear; small spot of bleeding from black cloth onto the verso of the dust jacket. Poems, prose, lyrics, drawings and photographs. Uncommon in the cloth issue.
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