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Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books,, 2016. First edition, first printing. Signed by Mapplethorpe on the title page, Smith beneath her poem, Boardman beneath her introduction, Solomon and Orlean beneath their essays. The culmination of a twenty year project by one of today's top commissioned and internationally recognized photographers of baby portraits, each photograph taken on the child's first birthday. Quarto. Original grey cloth boards, phototographic image to front cover, lettering to spine in grey. No dust jacket issued. 60 full page photographs by Mapplethorpe. A fine copy.

New York: Ecco,, 2010. Signed limited edition, number 205 of 1,000 copies signed by the author, specially bound, and containing a loosely inserted pamphlet with Smith's poem "Reflecting Robert". Smith's celebrated memoir of her relationship with Mapplethorpe won the 2010 National Book Award. It was first published earlier the same year in a trade edition. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, grid incorporating the initials of Smith and Mapplethorpe stamped on front cover in silver and illustrating the endpapers, purple silk bookmarker. Housed in the publisher's matching cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with photographic half-tones. Text printed in purple throughout. All in fine condition.

Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute,, 2016. First edition, first printing. Signed by three of the contributors, Terpak, Brunnick and Smith. Quarto. Original illustrated boards, lettering to front cover and spine in white. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout A fine copy.

Collector's Edition (No. 201–1,500) No. 605; numbered and signed by Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith.This book includes hundreds of unseen photographs by Lynn Goldsmith and exclusive texts by the unparalleled Patti Smith. This signed edition documents a transformative moment in the artist's career and celebrates two greats.Hardcover in clamshell box.Book is NEW and in AS NEW condition. Clamshell box is NEW and in AS NEW condition. Has been on display in our bookshop with minimal hands-on interactions. Comes in original packing box.

New York: New Directions. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; Signed by author on title page. ; Signed by Author .

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 in person at the Skylight Books here in Los Angeles on Jan 19, 2010. A photo of the signing will be included with the purchase. Also included .is a combine painting of a womans face done on a cloth head form by Robert Maplethorpe . This piece is from Robert Mapplethorpe's estate and is visible in the documentary "Chelsea Hotel 1970" at 8 minutes 47 seconds (available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wtfo9OJAuE ) and in the HBO Documentary "Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures" at 17 minutes and 47 seconds. In the late 1960's Robert Mapplethorpe studied the Rauschenberg technique of combine painting at the Pratt Institute in New York. As he had this in his apartment with his iconic hat on it in 1970 that fits with it having been a project of his for school. I obtained the piece from Art Director / Production Designer William Doig (https://www.showstudio.com/contributors/bill_doig). In October 1989 he was working as the manager in an antique collectable shop in the Soho district in Manhattan. An associate of Dimitri Levas brought a number of items into the store that were not going to be part of the Mapplethorpe Auction at Christies. This item was one of the pieces brought in for them to sell. William Doig purchased this for himself. A letter from William Doig will be included with the purchase..