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First edition in DJ fine in fine DJ.; 7.4 X 5.5 X 1.5 inches; 400 pages.

Boston: Bulfinch Press/ Little, Brown and Co., 1990. First Paperback Ed. second printing 1994. Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. 4 to glued wraps; front wrap; Calla Lily photograph; unpaged; 49 full color plates (full page).

Smith, Patti. M Train. New York: Knopf, 2015. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped 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, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; 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,

NY: ECCO.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 006621131-2 . Fine in a near fine DJ. (Short edge nick & a few mild crimps at head of DJ. Slim scuff on rear panel) National Book Award winner. (GC) .

[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.

New York: The Poetry Project, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 89 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Thick and scarce issue of this seminal little magazine, includes work by Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, Jim Carroll, many others. Unmarked copy, a bit of minor wear and cover soil.

Smith, Patti. Devotion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Patti Smith presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus's house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil's grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano's novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing.

New York: The Poetry Project, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 63 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Patti Smith makes a very early appearance in this classic issue of The World. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Basel and Paris: Expanded Media Editions, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 4to, 112pp, printed wrappers. Impressive collection of work by Gysin, photographs, and tributes. Text in English. Unmarked copy with waviness to bottom margin throughout (caused by damp exposure, but not musty), minor wear otherwise.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Issued by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in a small number of copies in conjunction with the February, 1989 exhibition (just a month before Mapplethorpe's death) of the controversial 'X', 'Y', and 'Z' portfolios, this rare work presents the portfolio texts as respectively authored by Paul Schmidt, Patti Smith, and Edmund White. [8] pages, printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, stapled at upper left. Some darkening, creasing, and tiny marginal tears.