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U.S.A.: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink directly on title page. 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. Smith's previous memoir, JUST KIDS, was the winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Pristine, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in brown cloth boards in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. Book will be carefully packaged to ensure arrival in described condition..L162/ OFC 1F/ OFC 2R

First edition. Hard cover. Random House (2022) New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. Book is brand new and never read. Signed by the author to publisher's specially bound page. First edition, first printing, full number line present. Dust jacket hand wrapped in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Pictures available upon request.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic—inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Variety, Pitchfork, PopSugarIn 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she's reading, the graves of beloved heroes—William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith's unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother's keychain, and a husband's Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith's archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.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.

New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1997. First Paperbound Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/none. First paperbound edition 71 pp. The author's heartfelt elegy to her closest friend, Robert Mapplethorpe. Short prose pieces accompanied wby photographs. About very good condition in wide bound wrappers. Front cover edge is turned up somewhat. This copy SIGNED by Patti on the half-title page.

New York: New Directions, 2011. hardcover. fine/fine. 80pp., small 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: New Directions, (2011). First Edition. Second printing. Fine. Augmented edition of the book originally published in 1992, with photographs taken by the author. Signed on the title page.

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

[Norwich, New York]: SOOJ, 2006. One of 100 signed by artist and author. Painting by Path Soong. Printed on Arches paper. 13 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. One of 100 signed by artist and author. Painting by Path Soong. Printed on Arches paper. 13 x 8-1/2 inches.

New York: Rizzoli, 2008. First edition. Near fine.. Signed first printing of this substantial volume of photographs and film stills that chronicle 11 years in the life of Patti Smith. DREAM OF LIFE is the book version of Steve Sebring's 2008 documentary of the same name. The film debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was later awarded "Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary" at Sundance. 10'' x 7.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color and black and white. 434 pages. Signed by both Smith and Sebring to title page. Binding corners and spine ends a touch bumped, a hint of edgewear. Clean and tight.

New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1984. First edition. Cloth. Fine. Folios. Four consecutive issues of Michael Andre's Unmuzzled Ox Magazine sold here together in a Special Publisher's Clothbound format. Printed on inexpensive newsprint type paper and measuring 11 1/4 x 16 1/2" tall. These four issues all contain extensions of Cantos of Ezra Pound by a wide variety of poets and artists including Corso, Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, James Lee Byars, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and others. Also these issues includes writings, photographs, interviews and more with Charles Henri Ford, W. S. Burroughs, Ira Cohen, Patti Smith et al. Other than toning to the paperstock which is normal for these issues, they are in fine condition. Special lavender clothbound edition printed in silver provided directly by the publisher in presumably very small quantities. This copy comes with the original mailing envelope from the publisher SIGNED by Michael Andre in 1995 and sent to poet Jackson Mac Low.

No Place: No Publisher, 1988. No Edition. Loose Sheets. Good. Large black and white promotional photograph taken of punk poetess Patti Smith. This image was used on the cover of her 1988 Dream of Life album. The photo image measures 12 1/4" square. Condition is only good with light creases and wear to the stiff paper employed. SIGNED by Patti beneath the image. Despite the less than stellar condition it would look quite handsome framed.

New York: Sire Records, Inc, 1977. Reprint. Very Good. 45 rpm record in original photo-illustrated paper sleeve. This is the Special Collectors Edition re-issue from 1977 on Sire Records (SRE 1009). Contains Patti's Hey Joe (Version) on the A Side and Piss Factory on the B Side of the record. Record is in clean very good condition. The sleeve is somewhat worn and toned, but in overall good to very good condition. The sleeve is boldly SIGNED by Patti on the front and also SIGNED by Lenny Kaye on the back panel of the sleeve. The record was produced by Lenny Kaye for Robert Mapplethorpe and was originally recorded on June 5, 1974 on Mer Records 601.