Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Weldon Kees. The Ceremony and Other Stories. Abattoir Editions, 1983.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Kees, Weldon. The Ceremony and Other Stories. Abattoir Editions, 1983.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Natural linen, no dust jacket. Faint stains to front panel, near fine.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 290 copies (this, no. 95 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. Gillane & Niemi A.I.8.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Kees, Weldon. Ceremony and Other Stories. Abattoir Editions, 1983.
Price: US$58.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #260/265 copies printed letterpress on Curtis Rag paper, of a total edition of 295, all bound into fine-woven off-white cloth. Fine, without jacket as issued. 79pp. with Corrigenda bound in at end. Six stories. Q14744
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.