Back to home page
|Listed in category:

Picture 1 of 4

Picture 1 of 4
Picture 2 of 4
Picture 3 of 4
Picture 4 of 4
Have one to sell?
Sell it yourself

Signed 1st Edition HC/DJ - M Train Patti Smith - Y621

The Nerd Emporium
(9747)
Seller's other items
Contact seller
US $44.99
ApproximatelyAU $69.49
or Best Offer
Condition:
Like new
“Minor wear from age and use, please see photos for additional details.”
People are checking this out. 4 have added this to their Watchlist.
Collection:
Postage:
Free USPS Media MailTM.
Located in: Royersford, Pennsylvania, United States
Save on combined postage
Shop multiple items
We'll automatically apply postage discounts if you purchase two or more eligible items from the same seller.
Bundle and save
To confirm if items are eligible, simply add them to cart and you'll see the combined postage total at checkout.
Delivery:
Estimated between Thu, 7 Aug and Tue, 12 Aug to 94104
Delivery time is estimated using our proprietary method which is based on the buyer's proximity to the item location, the postage service selected, the seller's postage history, and other factors. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods.
Returns:
No returns accepted.
Payments:
     Diners Club

Shop with confidence

eBay Money Back Guarantee
Get the item you ordered or your money back. Learn moreeBay Money Back Guarantee - opens new window or tab
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:146669794041

Item specifics

Condition
Like new
A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Seller notes
“Minor wear from age and use, please see photos for additional details.”
Signed
Yes
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Personalized
No
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9781101875100

About this product

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101875100
ISBN-13
9781101875100
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208591611

Product Key Features

Book Title
M Train
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Patti Smith
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-012904
Reviews
"Iconic poet, writer, and artist Smith articulates the pensive rhythm of her life through the stations of her travels. In a Greenwich Village cafe sipping coffee, jotting quixotic notes in journals, and 'plotting my next move,' the author reflects on the places she's visited, and the impact each played on her past and present selves. She describes a chance meeting with guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, who swiftly stole and sealed her heart with marriage and children. A graceful, ruminative tour guide, Smith writes of travelling with Fred, armed with a vintage 1967 Polaroid, to French Guiana, then of solitary journeys to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, and to the graves of Sylvia Plath, Jean Genet, and a swath of legendary Japanese filmmakers. After being seduced by Rockaway Beach and purchasing a ramshackle bungalow there, the property was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy--though she vowed to rebuild. The author synchronizes past memories and contemporary musings on books, art, and life with Fred . . . No matter the distance life may take her, Smith always recovers some semblance of normalcy with the simple pleasures of a deli coffee on her stoop, her mind constantly buoyed by humanity, art, and memory . . . An atmospheric, moody, and bittersweet memoir, to be savored and pondered." -- Kirkus, "The bestselling author['s] second memoir dives into her literary and everyday obsessions, and chronicles her travels, adding in Polaroids she snapped of graves and artifacts connected to artists who have inspired her." -- The Wall Street Journal, "What to Read This Fall"   "Smith explores her life through visits to the places she loves: 18 'stations,' including Greenwich Village cafés, train stations, Frida Kahlo's abode, and her own bungalow on Far Rockaway. Smith, who won the National Book Award for Just Kids, writes here about the loss of her husband and her struggles as a writer." --Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star Tribune   * "Following Smith's critically acclaimed Just Kids, M Train creates a map of the singer-songwriter's peripatetic journeys to cafés, cemeteries, hotels, and train stations around the world. She is the perfect guide, revealing the mysteries in the shadows, the little bits of life people often take for granted--such as a good cup of coffee, a familiar coat, or the 'transformation of the heart.' Her haunting and joyful recollections of life with her late husband, Fred Sonic Smith, anchor her intensely physical descent into memory and its ability to haunt her waking and dreaming life. The narrative carries readers through the despair, loss, hope, consolation, and mysteries that Smith faces as she lives through Fred's death, struggles with the writer's craft, and comes to realize, through one of her dreams, that the 'writer is a conductor'--and she is indeed a phenomenal conductor along these elegant tours of the haunting places in her life, where anyone might stumble upon momentary but life-altering wisdom." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Iconic poet, writer, and artist Smith articulates the pensive rhythm of her life through the stations of her travels. In a Greenwich Village cafe sipping coffee, jotting quixotic notes in journals, and 'plotting my next move,' the author reflects on the places she's visited, and the impact each played on her past and present selves. She describes a chance meeting with guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, who swiftly stole and sealed her heart with marriage and children. A graceful, ruminative tour guide, Smith writes of travelling with Fred, armed with a vintage 1967 Polaroid, to French Guiana, then of solitary journeys to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, and to the graves of Sylvia Plath, Jean Genet, and a swath of legendary Japanese filmmakers. After being seduced by Rockaway Beach and purchasing a ramshackle bungalow there, the property was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy--though she vowed to rebuild. The author synchronizes past memories and contemporary musings on books, art, and life with Fred . . . No matter the distance life may take her, Smith always recovers some semblance of normalcy with the simple pleasures of a deli coffee on her stoop, her mind constantly buoyed by humanity, art, and memory . . . An atmospheric, moody, and bittersweet memoir, to be savored and pondered." -- Kirkus, * "Following Smith's critically acclaimed Just Kids, M Train creates a map of the singer-songwriter's peripatetic journeys to cafés, cemeteries, hotels, and train stations around the world. She is the perfect guide, revealing the mysteries in the shadows, the little bits of life people often take for granted--such as a good cup of coffee, a familiar coat, or the 'transformation of the heart.' Her haunting and joyful recollections of life with her late husband, Fred Sonic Smith, anchor her intensely physical descent into memory and its ability to haunt her waking and dreaming life. The narrative carries readers through the despair, loss, hope, consolation, and mysteries that Smith faces as she lives through Fred's death, struggles with the writer's craft, and comes to realize, through one of her dreams, that the 'writer is a conductor'--and she is indeed a phenomenal conductor along these elegant tours of the haunting places in her life, where anyone might stumble upon momentary but life-altering wisdom." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Iconic poet, writer, and artist Smith articulates the pensive rhythm of her life through the stations of her travels. In a Greenwich Village cafe sipping coffee, jotting quixotic notes in journals, and 'plotting my next move,' the author reflects on the places she's visited, and the impact each played on her past and present selves. She describes a chance meeting with guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, who swiftly stole and sealed her heart with marriage and children. A graceful, ruminative tour guide, Smith writes of travelling with Fred, armed with a vintage 1967 Polaroid, to French Guiana, then of solitary journeys to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, and to the graves of Sylvia Plath, Jean Genet, and a swath of legendary Japanese filmmakers. After being seduced by Rockaway Beach and purchasing a ramshackle bungalow there, the property was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy--though she vowed to rebuild. The author synchronizes past memories and contemporary musings on books, art, and life with Fred . . . No matter the distance life may take her, Smith always recovers some semblance of normalcy with the simple pleasures of a deli coffee on her stoop, her mind constantly buoyed by humanity, art, and memory . . . An atmospheric, moody, and bittersweet memoir, to be savored and pondered." -- Kirkus
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092 B
Synopsis
National Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the caf s and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today., National Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids : an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.
LC Classification Number
ML420.S672A3 2015

Item description from the seller

About this seller

The Nerd Emporium

100% positive Feedback•19K items sold

Joined Mar 2000
Visit storeContact

Detailed seller ratings

Average for the last 12 months
Accurate description
5.0
Reasonable postage costs
5.0
Postage speed
5.0
Communication
5.0

Popular categories from this Store

See allcategories
LegoVideo GamesLoot CrateToysMagazinesElectronicsCds, DVD & Blu-RayBoard GamesVintage Star Wars

Seller feedback (10,185)

All ratings
Positive
Neutral
Negative
See all feedback

Product ratings and reviews

Learn more
4.8
16 product ratings
  • 15 users rated this 5 out of 5 stars
  • 0 users rated this 4 out of 5 stars
  • 0 users rated this 3 out of 5 stars
  • 0 users rated this 2 out of 5 stars
  • 1 users rated this 1 out of 5 stars

Would recommend

Good value

Compelling content

Most relevant reviews

See all 8 reviews
  • by cidne123
    08 Nov, 2015

    KEEP IT SIMPLE

    Patti Smith does it again, couldn't put her new book down. While "Just Kids" is one of my favorite reads, Patti Smith shares her interesting "beat" life as a near seventy year old. Her honest approach to life is a thread throughout M Train. I hear people say about a book, "I couldn't put it down" and I will now say, ditto.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: todayontheweb

  • by pam16544
    10 Oct, 2024

    Fantastic purchase of M Train by Patti Smith

    My Patti Smith M Train, autographed by the author, is superb. A compelling read—and the book is in great condition. I’m very happy with my purchase.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: amazing_alan

  • by jcal8463
    06 Apr, 2017

    boring and self absorbed

    do not read if you have other books on the shelf Smith is self abosorbed and the text is boring, unrelated to anything but her chronic depressive state masked by personality quirks and self judging thoughts. Major disappointment considering her body of work.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned

  • by seanskirecords
    19 Nov, 2017

    Patti Smith.

    Good read. Rock icon

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: virginsonfire

  • by ellieleeaustin
    09 Feb, 2018

    A Modern Classic

    This is a memoir of a prominent American singer and artist. The book is a compelling tale of a musical icon amidst the contemporary cultural landscape.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned

More to explore: