Patti Babel.

by SMITH

£1,200 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

This Book is Dedicated to the Future SMITH, Patti Babel. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1978. 8vo. Blue card wrappers with black lettering to cover and spine; proposed blurb stuck onto inside cover; pp. [x], 176; blue ink writing detailing publication date, price, pagination and ISBN to front cover; small split to front hinge at foot, slight fading to spine and toning to extremities; very good copy. Uncorrected proof copy prior to the insertion of illustrations. "Art is committed thru the greed of the architect, the lust of a woman and the eye of a child" Babel is legendary avant-garde musician and writer, Patti Smith's, "first 'establishment' volume of poetry, prose, reflections, observations, drawings and sexual fantasies and exercises" (blurb). Famous for melding her music with her poetry, Babel , her first mainstream publication, would play catalyst to a lifetime of loud and unique expression. Three years prior to Babel , The Patti Smith Group had recorded their famous debut album, Horses , which boldly combined spoken word with punk rock. In the same year as the publication of Babel in 1978, they would go on to release Easter , which was their most commercially successful record. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and five years later would achieve The National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids , the powerful tale of her life in Manhattan in the late 1970s and her intimate relationship with close f

• Binding: Hardcover

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