SMITH, Patti Just Kids.

Signed. SMITH, Patti Just Kids. New York: Ecco. 2010. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver to spine, initials and publisher's logo stamped in blind to upper board, fore-edge of text block untrimmed; pp. [xii], 278, [14]; minor pushing to crown and base of spine, author's signature to title page, internally fresh; near fine First edition. Signed by the author. Patti Smith's memoir that details her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. The book describes Smith's childhood in South Jersey, her chance meeting with Mapplethorpe in Brooklyn, to their famous stay in Hotel Chelsea, where they cross paths with iconic artists of the time; Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin and William S. Borroughs, to name a few. From the front flap: ‘Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to it’s rich and poor, it’s hustler’s and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, a prelude to fame.’ SKU: 2122623