A signed copy.

Photographs, relics, hotel rooms, coffee cups, gravesites, boots, cafés, dead friends, birthdays, snowfalls, tiny rituals. A calendar structured around attention itself. Patti Smith turns documentation into atmosphere. 

The book works because she understands that photographs are pressure marks left behind by a life moving through time. The sequencing matters more than explanation. You drift between Polaroids, notes, references to Genet, Tarkovsky, Bolaño, mourning, travel, objects, and weather patterns, and gradually realise the real subject is continuity — how a person stitches themselves together through recurring images and acts of remembrance.

First UK hardback edition, first printing, signed special edition with publisher’s tipped-in signature plate. Bloomsbury, 2022. As new condition with sharp unclipped jacket and clean boards/pages throughout.