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New York: Ecco Press, 2010. Later printing. Paperback. New. 288pp. [21 cm]. Black wraps with photo on cover, white text. From inside cover: "It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. New Directions Paperbook, 1211.

New York: Random House, 2022. First edition. Paperback. New. 386pp. Pictoral wraps. "In 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." - From the publisher.

Knopf Canada. F/F. 2019. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. First Canadian edition, fine in fine DJ. ; 5.49 X 0.83 X 8.19 inches .

Alfred A Knopf, 2019. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New Haven:: Yale Univeristy Press,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2017. Hardcover. 0300218621 . The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture. First printing. Fine in a near fine (a few light scuff marks) dust jacket. .

NY:: Knopf,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2019. Hardcover. 0525657681 . Black and white photographs by the author. Stated first edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

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.