Fifteenth issue of Eugene and Maria Jolas's landmark literary journal, which — along with Margaret Anderson's THE LITTLE REVIEW — was one of the primary vehicles of Modernist and experimental writing.
Near fine.
Price: $750.00
"TRANSITION is important for its revaluation of romanticism, its campaign for a 'Revolution of the Word,' and its attempt to build a new philosophy from subliminal and preconcious materials." — Hoffman et al.
Over the course of 11 years, often times under great financial difficulty, they published a who's-who of modernist and experimental authors, alongside the work of Surrealist, Expressionist, and Dada artists: "TRANSITION would explore the literary currents washing over Europe and America, present them all if they showed 'imaginative emancipation' as against descriptive naturalism" (Hoffman).
An important issue, featuring an installment of Joyce's 'Work in Progress' (i.e. FINNEGANS WAKE), plus contributions by Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Malcolm Cowley, Eugene Atget, Robert McAlmon, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams, Kay Boye, Robert Desnos, L. Moholy-Nagy, among many others. With the extremely ephemeral and fragile original overlap, rare in this condition.
Read more: Hoffman, The Little Magazine.
First edition. Paris: Transition / Shakespeare and Company, 1929. 9'' x 6.5''. Original pictorial wrappers featuring an image by Man Ray. 298 pages, plus ads. Original printed overlay tipped to front cover present. Issue largely unopened. Minor toning to pages, as usual. Touches of rubbing, shelfwear, soil. Small bump to top of spine. Overall clean and sound.
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