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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.

Knopf, 2019. first. hardcover. fine/fine. SIGNED first edition, as stated on copyright page. Book and dust jacket fine.

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..

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

Color and black and white photographs by the author throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

First printing of the author's National Book Award-winning memoirs; fine in fine dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; a crisp square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first printing with complete number line; nearly as new, appears unread; Patti Smith is one of the most influential songwriter/poets of the punk rock movement.

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.

Size: 5x0x8; Knopf, 2015. Hard cover, first edition; signed by Patti Smith on title page. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket.

Fascinating autobiography by celebrated American poet and musician, including her close friendship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. 365 pages, illustrations (some col.). First UK edition of the illustrated edition, first printing. White cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

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".