Weldon Kees’ Copy
Poems 1930-1940.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1941].
Price: $700.00
About the item
First edition, stamped on front free endpaper: “Review Copy / Publication Date / April 3 1941.”. 163 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Weldon Kees’ Copy. Original greyish-green cloth, lettered in green. Spine darkened, sides a little faded, light rubbing at ends of spine. Tate, Sixty American Poets, p. 41.
Item #346296
Weldon Kees’ copy with his ownership inscription (name and New York / 1941) on front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by Gregory also on the front free endpaper, incorporating Kees’ signature: “For [Weldon Kees] with all good wishes, Horace Gregory, Oct. 20, 1943.” That year marked the publication of Kees’ first book, The Last Man.
An unusual combination of inscriptions, with Kees’ being particularly scarce.
