Master of Genre-Blending
SMITH, Patti. Early Work: 1970-1979. London: Plexus. 1994.
8vo. Original cloth-backed boards with spine lettered in silver; illustrated dust jacket with black and white photograph of the author by Robert Mapplethorpe; pp. X, [4], 177, [3], photographic illustrations in text; very mild scuffing to head and tail of spine; otherwise fine.
First edition signed by the author, containing early works, some previously unpublished.
Early Work: 1970–1979, the "most revealing as an account of Smith's transition from poetry into the world of rock" (Publishers Weekly, 4 April 1994), comprises fragments of writing spanning the crucial decade during which she made a cult impact on America's undergound scene and began a legacy of breaking boundaries in art. Over a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished material, including extracts from the author's notebooks, personal papers and trascriptions of her performances.
Patti Smith would go on to write Just Kids, a memoir of the often turbulent but ever enduring relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs are featured in this volume, including his portrait of Patti Smith in the dustwrapper, and their united experience of poverty and artistry up until Mapplethorpe's premature death in 1989.
SKU: 2122029
Master of Genre-Blending
SMITH, Patti. Early Work: 1970-1979. London: Plexus. 1994.
8vo. Original cloth-backed boards with spine lettered in silver; illustrated dust jacket with black and white photograph of the author by Robert Mapplethorpe; pp. X, [4], 177, [3], photographic illustrations in text; very mild scuffing to head and tail of spine; otherwise fine.
First edition signed by the author, containing early works, some previously unpublished.
Early Work: 1970–1979, the "most revealing as an account of Smith's transition from poetry into the world of rock" (Publishers Weekly, 4 April 1994), comprises fragments of writing spanning the crucial decade during which she made a cult impact on America's undergound scene and began a legacy of breaking boundaries in art. Over a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished material, including extracts from the author's notebooks, personal papers and trascriptions of her performances.
Patti Smith would go on to write Just Kids, a memoir of the often turbulent but ever enduring relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs are featured in this volume, including his portrait of Patti Smith in the dustwrapper, and their united experience of poverty and artistry up until Mapplethorpe's premature death in 1989.
SKU: 2122029
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