Denver: Alan Swallow, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Second issue, later issue dust jacket.Tan cloth stamped in brown; in printed dust jacket; Small 8vo. Poet's first book. Inscribed to poet Robert Mezey, "Iowa City, August 19. 1959". Mss. corrections on p. 23 (new line) and p. 35 ("And" to "The"); Mezey's.....
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1942. First edition. Paperback. Stiff paper boards in pasted into wraps of wall paper in a floral design, printed label; 8vo. 31pp. First edition of the poet's first published book, and his first collection of poems (preceded only by a prose rarity that has only.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 59 pp. Poet's first book. Errata slip laid in. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a short indent at the gutter.
Beatrice, NB: Beatrice Public Library et al. 1988. First Edition. no binding. Single folded sheet of a schedule of activities for CELEBRATE WELDON KEES!!, attractively produced with a Bill Witt photo of the author and printed in two colors. Printed for a celebration held in the town in Nebraska where.....
New York: Atheneum, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue-green cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 40 pp. Inscribed by the poet to William Shawn. Humorous poems on plants with animal names, ilus. by F. H. Belli. Bottom tips lightly bumped else fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket (in.....
Fredericton, N. B. Canada: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973. First edition. Paperback. One of a stated 500 copies in mustard wrappers published the year after his first book (from Cummington Press); 8vo. 44pp. Quite uncommon in the marketplace despite the stated printing; republished in 1984 in the US. His next book.....
