Collected Poems by Kees Weldon, First Edition (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. VG overall. PON in ink on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A hardbound ex-library book with green covers and a library call numer on the lower spine. Binding straight, inside cover, front and back flyleafs, top and bottom of the block have library markings. The text itself is clean and unmarked. The edition was originally published only in paperback, so a hardback edition is very rare. First Edtion, first printing.

First Revised Edition. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 180 pp. The first printing of this revised edition first published in a nearly identical edition by the press in 1962; this edition also published in cloth. Fine, scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Very good minus copy quarter bound in Oasis leather with Japanese paper covered boards. This copy is numbered 3/200. Two prospectus pasted on endpaper and pastedown in back. The number "100" written on first pastedown. Front cover has sun-faded around another book's shape. Glue marks along top edge of front and back pastedowns. We will send photos upon request.

Condition: A fine copy. 8vo, original quarter black morocco & Japanese paper-covered boards. A fine copy. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies printed on Rives Light out of a total edition of 220 copies. Berger 8.

8vo, full black morocco with blind-stamped initials ("WK") on front cover and gilt lettering on spine, publisher's slipcase. A very fine copy of this rare issue of one of the most beautiful books from the Stone Wall Press, and still the definitive edition of the poet's work, in the rare slipcase which is slightly, faintly stained. A very fine copy of this rare issue of one of the most beautiful books from the Stone Wall Press, and still the definitive edition of the poet's work, in the rare slipcase which is slightly, faintly stained First edition. One of only 20 copies on Rives Heavy, a French mould made paper and bound in full leather, out of a total of 200 copies printed. Berger 8. Dana Gioia has chronicled Kees's posthumous reputation, noting that "Kees's stature among poets has risen steadily since 1960 when Iowa City's fledgling Stone Wall Press posthumously published his Collected Poems in a hand-printed edition of 200 copies. The volume received an extraordinary amount of attention for a fine press book of verse, especially one by a dead Nebraskan poet of limited reputation. The Collected Poems earned substantial notices in the New York Times Book Review, The Hudson Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, The New York Herald Tribune, and Saturday Review. The book's positive reception, however, displayed two significant features that would become constants in restricting Kees's subsequent audience. First, his champions were nearly all poets. Second, the collection they praised was virtually impossible to obtain; its small print run, high price, and severely limited distribution placed it outside the normal channels for trade books." Gioia, the current head of the National Endowment for the Arts and the author of the influential collection of essays Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992), finds in Kees a paradigm of the place, or displacement, of poetry in contemporary American academia and culture, observing that "it appears that as Kees's' fame among poets grows ever larger his already marginal critical reputation shrinks further. The disparity between the legion of imaginative writers who admire Kees's work and paucity of academic interest demonstrates that there is something now oddly out of joint between the worlds of poets and literary critics." - Dana Gioia, "The Cult of Weldon Kees", Dana Gioia Online.

140pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. First Edition, limited to 200 copies, of which numbers I-XX are printed on Rives Heavy by Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller, this number XVIII. 140pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Collects the three volumes of poetry Kees published before his disappearance in 1955: The Last Man, The Fall of the Magicians, and Poems 1947-1954. Donald Justice had sent a letter to Kees, including both his youthful admiration and a sestina, a form which Kees always something of a formalist was fond of employing, along with the villanelle and the sonnet. The letter was only fielded posthumously by Kees' father, who let the young poet edit this collection, which was released as a trade paperback later in the year, establishing Kees' fame and influence with a younger generation. This copy with Stone Wall's publication announcement, addressed to Merker's parents, laid-in. Berger 8; Provenance: from the library of Kim Merker of the Stone Wall and Windhover presses Publisher's full black morocco, spine gilt stamped, upper cover blindstamped WK, near fine in shelf-worn slipcase, only issued with the Rives Heavy copies First Edition, limited to 200 copies, of which numbers I-XX are printed on Rives Heavy by Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller, this number XVIII.

140pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. First Edition, no. 59 of 180 copies printed on Rives Light by Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller, out of a total edition of. 140pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Collects the three volumes of poetry Kees published before his disappearance in 1955: The Last Man, The Fall of the Magicians, and Poems 1947-1954. Donald Justice had sent a letter to Kees, including both his youthful admiration and a sestina, a form which Kees always something of a formalist was fond of employing, along with the villanelle and the sonnet. The letter was only fielded posthumously by Kees' father, who let the young poet edit this collection, which was released as a trade paperback later in the year, establishing Kees' fame and influence with a younger generation. Berger 8 Publisher's quarter morocco and paper over boards. Fine First Edition, no. 59 of 180 copies printed on Rives Light by Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller, out of a total edition of.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Edited by Donald Justice. Quarto. Black morocco spine stamped in gilt and paper-covered boards. A fine copy in publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket. Copy number 110 of 180 numbered copies printed on "Rives Light" paper, of a total edition of 200 copies. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition. First edtion. One of only 20 copies printed on Rives Heavy (a French mould made paper), bound in full black Oasis goatskin with blind-stamped initials ("WK") on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine. Completely fine, in the publisher's paper slipcase (trivial shelfwear). There were 180 regular copies printed on Rivers Light and bound in paper boards. The printer, Kim Merker, later said of these: "Another mistake we made was the in the binding, using a very fragile japanese paper for the side. If you left it in the sun for three minutes the color would fade." (Merker 12). Printed and bound thus, this is a real American fine press highspot and a great edition of Weldon Kees' marvelous poetry.

First Revised Edition, Third Printing. Green cloth, gold titling; 8vo. 180 pp. The third printing of this revised edition first published in a nearly identical edition by the press in 1962. The cloth issue is scarce in any printing; intended for libraries, most of the edition in trade paperback. Fine. Published without a dust jacket.

First edition. 140 pp. Edited and with a preface by Donald Justice. Quarter Oasis leather over Japanese paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, and front board lettered in blind. One of 180 copies on Rives Light, of a total edition of 200 copies. Some minor discoloration to boards and slight rubbing to head of spine, near fine. Small publisher's printed prospectus laid in. Berger 8.