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Winner of the National Book Award, Just Kids is Patti Smith’s elegy to youth, art, hunger, and her formative relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. Set largely in late-1960s and early-1970s New York—Chelsea Hotel, Max’s Kansas City, the charged downtown scene—the book captures the making of two artists before the world knew their names. It is part love story, part portrait of a city, and part document of a cultural moment that continues to echo.
Signed copies of Just Kids remain sought after, particularly first editions in clean condition. The inscription—addressed to Smith’s “favorite dead author”—adds a personal, poetic touch consistent with her literary sensibility and public readings. A sharp example of an important contemporary memoir, inscribed at a signing event and accompanied by provenance from the day it was signed.
A desirable signed first of a modern classic at the intersection of music, poetry, and photography.
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