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(New York): HarperCollins, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 279pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Slightly cocked spine else fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. SIGNED. 253pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown patterned paper over boards, with very minor sunning to the lower extremities. In the pictorial dust jacket, with a "Signed Copy" label on the front panel. A book described by Patti Smith as a road map to her life, detailing the locations she lived and worked. From the dust jacket- "Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband. "Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today." Signed by Patti Smith on the tipped-in front flyleaf.

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2011. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good +. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at title page. 7 1/4" X 4 3/4". xii, 80pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bumps to corners of gray cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The National Book Award–winner Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a childhood memoir about “clear unspeakable joy” and “just the wish to know.” A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, “a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me.” She discovers often at night, often in nature the pleasures of rescuing “a fleeting thought.” Deeply moving, Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child “glimpses and gleans, 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 cloud watching and stargazing and wandering.(Publisher).

New York: Knopf, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. M Train 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. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.     Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today. Illustrated with her signature Polaroids.

Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. An unused copy.

New York: Knopf, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, 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 with no design, yet heeding signs-including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith-inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing-the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated from photographs.

(New York): Ecco, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A collection of poems by Smith who has SIGNED the front endpaper.

New York: Bantam Doubleday Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Lyrics and writings interfaced with iconic photos by Patti Smith, plus some drawings and facsimile images of notebook pages. Inscribed by Patti Smith: "...New York City, October 31, 2001." From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Toning and shelfwear around edges in DJ, small tears on upper endpages, fold on verso, else tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ with French flaps. Paper covered boards in black. 8vo, 246pp. illus (b/w). Signed by author on dedication page.