KEES, WELDON.POEMS 1947-1954. San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1954. First edition. Publisher's cloth backed boards with vertical rainbow bands, and printed wrap-around band. Signed by the author and dated "1954" on the front free endpaper. The author's signature is significant in this copy, since Kees disappeared less than a year later on July 18, 1955, a presumed suicide, [his car was found at the Sausalito entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge with the keys in the ignition].
PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $250-400
