Just kids. (Signed deluxe edition)

A$1,100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed · Limited edition

New York : Ecco (Harper Collins), 2010. Octavo, silver lettered. blue cloth, ribbon marker, decorated endpapers, pp. xii; 280; (12), photographically illustrated, housed in a silver lettered blue cloth folding clamshell box, with an additional broadside Reflecting Robert loosely enclosed. The deluxe edition, limited to 1000 hand numbered copies signed in pen by Patti Smith. The deluxe edition of Patti Smith s highly regarded autobiography reflecting on her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. I didn t write it to be cathartic, she noted. I wrote it because Robert asked me to… Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved. So that was my agenda for writing that book. I wrote it to fulfill my vow to him, which was on his deathbed. In finishing, I did feel that I d fulfilled my promise.

• Binding: Hardcover

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