Ceremony Stories by Kees Weldon (25 results)

Paper Back. Condition: Good. Firm and unmarked, with moderate general wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket, 147 pgs. First printing, 1984. Fine in near fine dj, with moderate corner wear.

Softcover. Condition: very good. ISBN 0915308533.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. A clean unmarked copy.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. has some light water damage. has some stains to book edges. softcover book light wear to cover and book edges, has some light reader wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy of the first printing of the hardcover edition with 14 of Kees' short stories in this collected edition, including his classic "The Ceremony". Very Good+ dust jacket has minor shelf wear at top and bottom of spine, a very short closed tear and associated chip at lower corner of front panel, and sunning to spine.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Solid spine, clean cover, no marks inside. Light corner/edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dustjacket as issued. First Edition. Limited edition 272/295 copies. Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Second printing. Edited and with an introduction by Dana Gioia. Jacket illustration by the author. Modest foxing on topedge and spine, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small scratches and minor edgewear. Of the 40 short stories that Kees published between 1934 and 1945, these are 14 of his best.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Very good copy in linen cloth. Front cover and part of spine has been splattered with a liquid of some kind. This did not cause any warping or wrinkling, just a stain. Numbered 37/259 copies.

hardcover. First Printing [trade issue]. off-white cloth w/ rust paper boards; author's initials stamped in gilt on front, gilt lettering on spine; 12-page intro by Gioia; 14 stories (culled from anthologies & mags); 147 pgs w/ chronology; red-orange, illus dust jacket w/ $14.00 on front flap, author photo from Poetry mag at back; stories collected here for the first time; small 1st hardbound printing, w/ simultaneous pbk ed. edited by Dana Gioia. jacket art, 'The Centaur', by Weldon Kees, photographed by Deanne Fitzmaurice. fine copy in fine dust jacket w/ orig shrinkwrap. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Natural cloth with spine label, large 8vo., 79, (1) pages. One of 295 numbered copies printed from Romulus Open and Perpetua types by Harry Duncan and students, this copy being one of 65 copies on Curtis Rag. Typed review slip laid in. Binding shows some spotting, else an otherwise near fine copy in archival mylar. …

Condition: Good. Condizioni dettagliate: più che buone, pieghe sulla copertina, copertina flessibile.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited. Limited Edition, #141 of 295 copies. VG+. Hardcover, beige cloth, no DJ, 79 pp, very slight foxing to cloth and endpages, else a clean and crisp copy. Protected in a mylar cover.

Omaha: Abattoir Editions/University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1983. Limited Edition, number 97 of 295 copies. 79, [1]pp. Tall 8vo. Beige cloth with printed spine label. Near Fine. Collection of six short stories by Weldon Kees, important American poet, painter, novelist, and musician. With an introduction by poet and critic Dana Gioia who, with Barbara C. Webber, also contributes a chronological checklist of Kees' published short stories.…

paperback. Condition: As New.

Paperback.

Hardbound. 79 pp. front cover a little foxed else a fine copy in original light gray cloth over boards with printed paper spine label. here offered is copy number 58. Additionally inscribedby Gioia to a friend one of 295 numbered copies signed by Gioia.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Selected and with an editorial introduction by Dana Gioia. Octavo. 79, [1]pp. Frontispiece. Ivory cloth with publisher's printed paper spine label. Nicely printed by Harry Duncan, Roger C. Nielson, and Alison Wilson, of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Fine Arts. A near fine copy with very slightly tanned spine [issued without printed dust jacket. A collection of six short stories by Weldon Kees selected with an introduction by Gioia. Signed by Gioia. Limited to 200 numbered copies on Rising paper, of a total edition limited to 295 numbered copies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Selected and with an editorial introduction by Dana Gioia. Octavo. 79, [1]pp. Frontispiece. Ivory cloth with publisher's printed paper spine label. Nicely printed by Harry Duncan, Roger C. Nielson, and Alison Wilson, of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Fine Arts. A near fine copy with very slightly tanned spine [issued without printed dust jacket]. A collection of six short stories by Weldon Kees selected with an introduction by Gioia. Nicely inscribed by Gioia: "For Matt - who shares my passion for Kees. With best wishes, Dana". Limited to 200 numbered copies on Rising paper, of a total edition limited to 295 numbered copies.…

No. 192 of 295 copies. Large 8vo, pp. 79. Gioia's presentation on flyleaf; "For William Jay Smith - | who has so graciously | championed both | the author and | the editor. | As ever, | Dana | 9-28-83" Beige linen with applied spine label. illustrated with a frontispiece (linecut drawing); nicely printed by Harry Duncan, Roger C. Nielson, and Alison Wilson, of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Fine Arts. [issued without printed dust jacket], About fine.…

First Edition. First edition limited to 290 copies (this, no. 15 and one of only 30 copies printed on Umbria), 8vo, pp. 79, [1]; frontispiece; original cream-colored linen, printed paper label on spine, original glassine jacket; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed by Harry Duncan, Roger C. Nielson, and Alison Wilson. Gillane & Niemi A.I.8. …

First Edition. First edition limited to 290 copies (this, no. 131 and one of 198 copies printed on Rising book paper), 8vo, pp. 79, [1]; frontispiece; original cream-colored linen, printed paper label on spine; fine. Printed by Harry Duncan, Roger C. Nielson, and Alison Wilson. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. This copy with a presentation from Gioia on the colophon: "For Allan Kornblum - printer & publisher - Dana Gioia - Minneapolis 2004." Gillane & Niemi A.I.8.…

First trade edition (following the 1983 Abattoir edition), 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 147, [1]; original cream-colored linen over terracotta paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover stamped in gilt; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Dana Gioia to Donald Justice: "For Donald Justice - / who started it all. / With best wishes, / Dana / 7-15-84." The reference is to Justice's resurrecting Weldon Kees with the 1960 Stone Wall Press edition of Kees's Collected Poetry. Gillane & Niemi A.I.11.…