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US: New Directions, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. The National Book Award-winner Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a chi ldhood memoir about "clear unspeakable joy" and "just the wish to know." A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster f inding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, "a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me." She discovers often at night, ofte n in natureâ??the pleasures of rescuing "a fleeting thought." Deeply moving , Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child "glimpses and gle ans, 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 cl oud watching and stargazing and wandering. A radiant new autobiographical piece, "Two Worlds" (which was not in the original 1992 Hanuman edition of Woolgathering), and the author's photographs and illustrations are also included. Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation with Smith's beautiful style, acclaimed as "glorious" (NPR), "spellbinding" (Booklist), "rare and ferocious" (Salon), and "shockingly beautiful" (New York Magazine). Black-and-white illustrations.

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, NEW, COLLECTIBLEWe are selling an excellent new copy of Patti Smith's (Winner of the National Book Award) M Train. Binding is new. Dust jacket is new and now is protected in Mylar. Signed by the award winning author, Patti Smith, on the title page. First edition printing. From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world.M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant multiplatform artists at work today. Thank you for supporting Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families

New York:: Ecco Press,, 2005.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a small remainder dot to bottom edge in a Fine dust jacket. Auguries of Innocence marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences are eclectic and striking: Blake, Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an American original; her poems are oracles for our times.

Size: 5x1x7; First printing with number line to 1. Signed by Patti Smith at half title. Brown boards with gold spine titling, near fine with minor edgewear to spine ends. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good to near fine, with only light shelf-wear. Pages bright, text unmarked.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Later Printing. Signed to a bookplate. Unread new copy.

New York, Knopf, 2015. First Edition. First printing. Very fine/Very fine. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign, no inscriptions, just the author's name directly on the page. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. You cannot find a better copy.

New York:: Ecco Press,, 2005.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with discreet remainder dot in a Fine dust jacket. Auguries of Innocence marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences are eclectic and striking: Blake, Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an American original; her poems are oracles for our times.

First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 279 pages.

1st edition 1st printing-small ink mark on closed page edge-otherwise a fine clean like new collectible with like new dust jacket-now in mylar cover-enjoy.

A fine UK first edition, later printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket (protected by a removable, clear thin mylar sleeve)-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR via a bookplate-Pictures of the book are available upon request.