New York: Knopf, 2015. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover. 253 pp. Illustrated. Fine in very good dust jacket. Later printing. National Book Award winner Patti Smith offers this unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist , tolfd through a prism of the cafes and haunts she has worked in throughout the world.
Publisher: The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017.
The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017.. First edition. Octavo hardcover; red boards with black spine titling; 93pp., monochrome illustrations. Minor wear only; fine in like white illustrated dustwrapper. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Bloomsbury, London 2010. 24.0 x 16.0cms, c 280pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper When Smith teamed up with Robert Mapplethorpe, they moved into the Hotel Chelsea, where they 'entered a community of the famous & the infamous'. This book 'begins as a love storty and ends as an elergy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late '60s & '70s and to its rich & poor, its hustlers & its hellions'.
Columbia Music. Bound in clean black cloth boards, with silver titles to spine, and graphic on front cover, this hardback special edition CD dated 2012, is VG in VG dustjacket (unclipped). Includes CD, lyrics, and illustrated with b/w photos. Cover has the slightest of rubbing to edges of jacket, and is in VG condition, although a original sticker shows wear. Internally clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. Special Edition. 2012.
Gere, Richard (photos & text): Dalai Lama (intro) & Patti Smith (poem)
Pilgrim: Photographs By Richard Gere
Gere, Richard (photos & text): Dalai Lama (intro) & Patti Smith (poem)
Publisher: Bullfinch Press for Little Brown & Co, Boston 1997 (stated first edition)
Bullfinch Press for Little Brown & Co, Boston 1997 (stated first edition). 32.0 x 30.0cms, 144pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued) Gere took these photographs in Tibet, among the exiled Tibetan community and throughout the Himalayan regions to reflect his affection and concern for the Tibetan people.
London: Bloomsbury, 2019. 1st edition. As New. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 171pp., b/w plates, 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 m
Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Quarto [31 cm] Green cloth over boards. In the dust jacket with light soiling. May require extra postage due to weight. 50 color illustrations. A collection of flower photographs by celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. All in color and featuring some of his final work.
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Writers
Friedman, Donald; William H. Gass, John Updike, Edward Gorey, Patti Smith, Bruno Schultz, et al.
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Writers
Friedman, Donald; William H. Gass, John Updike, Edward Gorey, Patti Smith, Bruno Schultz, et al.
Publisher: Mid-List Press
Date published: 2007
Minneapolis, MN: Mid-List Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Oblong 4to, cloth-covered boards in dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelfwear to book includes mild waviness to pages, with contents bright and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has mild age-toning, a one-inch closed tear to edge of rear panel, and price sticker to rear panel.
Publisher: Bulfinch Press, by Little, Brown & Company
Date published: 1990
Boston, Massachusetts: Bulfinch Press, by Little, Brown & Company, 1990. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Robert Mapplethorpe. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Bound handsomely in a tall quarto format hardcover, blue woven cloth with title stamped in black to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond a short closed tear to upper front panel, but price-clipped. Foreword by his lifelong friend, Patti Smith. Augmented with 49 full-color photographic reproductions of pictures of flowers by the master photographer whose life was cut short by AIDS, plus a stunner of irises at title page. Stated Second Printing of the First Edition. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
London: Bloomsbury. 2019. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, illus endpapers, pp 173. Near fine condition in like, d.j. The legendary singer/writer documents a year of wandering around the United States, illustrated with her Polaroid photographs, 1st UK Edition. Boards in d.j..
Random House. F/F. 2022. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. First edition fine in fine DJ signed by the author on a tipped in page. ; 5.48 X 1.49 X 7.34 inches; 400 pages; Signed by Author .
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain
Date published: 2008
Paris, France: Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain. Very Good. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in burgundy covers with a black leather spine, with light gray stamping to the upper cover and spine, with a pictorial paste-down on the upper cover. There is some very light rubbing to the edges of the spine-ends, as well as somne light wear to the very top and bottom of the joints, but with the covers in otherwise excellent condition. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with 250, black & white photo illustrations throughout. This book is signed/inscribed by the author/artist Patti Smith on the title-page. Laid-in at the front of the book is a folded booklet/pamphlet titled, "Patti Smith, A Pythagorean Traveler. An Evening of Words and Song, January 11, 2007," which is signed by Patti Smith on the inside. Also included with the book is the padded, mailing envelope which was used to ship the book between the collector and the author/artist (The envelope is torn open, but added for provenance.) - From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. ; Signed by Author .
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