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Published by New York, The Vanguard Press, [, 1949
Seller: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Covers rubbed, especially at extremities; pages slightly edge-browned; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. 412p.
Published by Vanguard, 1949
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Flaps from dust jacket laid in. Tight binding, solid edge rubbed edges and spine ends, previous owner's bookplate to front end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has very slight skew to spine, very slight bumps to rear corners, a hint of sunning to upper/outer edges of front board, and some slight rubbing, otherwise a solid VG+ copy in VG dust jacket which has slight bumps to spine ends and corners with tiny chips, some slight edgewear, and slight rubbing.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. 1. Publisher's full black cloth, with black endpapers, red topstain. . Hinges are cracked, front paste-down is abraded (removed bookplate?) rear cover has shadow from removed tape, spine of dust jacket is glued on, else unmarked, square and clean. VERY GOOD-. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 413 pp.
Published by Book-of-the-Month Club, 2000
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. An anthology of scarce essays and articles on Scott by Hemingway, Budd Schulberg, Sheilah Graham, John Dos passes, Alfred Kazin, etc., including the rare "Fitzgerald's First Flapper" by Amar Shah and the famous obituary from The New York Times of 1940. A superb copy.
Published by Transition, 1936
Seller: Aeon Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair condition copy of this influential literary journal of surrealism, dada, and expressionist art/writing, with a cover by Joan Miro. Contributions from Dylan Thomas, Alfonso Reyes, Thomas Newman, Franz Kafka, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Hugo Ball, Louis Aragon, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, and many others. Cover separated from book, whose binding remains tenuously intact. Cover with chips to spine extremities, spine creases, heavy edgewear and toning. Pages fairly bright for their age, unmarked. Faint aroma of smoke to interior. Fair to poor.
Published by Shakespeare & Co., Paris, 1933
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Original paper wrappers worn and age-toned, spine frayed, with losses, old tape repairs to head and foot of spine; previous owner's signature to verso of front panel and to head of title page, contents age-toned but unmarked. 340 grams.
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague, 1935
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Original paper wrappers worn, old tape repairs to outer hinges and to head and foot of spine; previous owner's signature to verso of front panel and to head of title page, pagination added in pencil to table of contents, contents age-toned though unmarked, binding tender but holding. Lacks the Supplement. 340 grams.
Published by Vanguard Press, NY, 1949
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. 8vo, pp. 413. Bound in pictorial cloth, some dust soiled, a very good copy. An anthology of material chosen from the avant garde literary journal Transition [1927-1938]. The list of contributors include, Samuel Beckett, Hemingway, Joyce, Agee, Miller, Stein, Williams, Bowles, etc.
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague, 1932
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No. 21 of the great journal. This large issue contains orphic creations by Beckett, Stein, Bob Brown, et al, and a section called "Homage to James Joyce" which includes photographs of page proofs of Work in Progress and a four-page translation of it into basic English. Back cover detached but present. Size: 8vo.
Published by Transition, 1936
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. edge wear, toning on spine,rubbing, light soil, tightly bound, cover beginning to separate from spine, Miro image on front, Fall, 1936. BP/locked cabinet.
Published by Transition
First Edition
Condition: Fair. Paris: Transition, 1929. 1st edition. Number 18. 8vo. 291pp. Illus. Fair book. Ex-library. Library of Congress "surplus" stamp on front cover. Front joint torn about halfway. Edges frayed. (short stories, poetry, James joyce, Hart Crane, Harry Crosby, Kay Boyle, William Carlos Williams, Charles Sheeler) Inquire if you need further information.
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague, 1935
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
205 + 15 pp. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers. First edition. First owners name and address, 1936, on the title page of each item. Light dust-soiling; contents fine. With Supplement, "Testimony Against Gertrude Stein" by Georges Braque, Henri Matisse and others' Transition Pamphlet no. 1.
Hardcover. Condition: Gut. Erste Ausgabe. 413 S. Orig.-Leinenband nach dem Entwurf und in der Ausstattung von Marshall Lee. Literarische Anthologie aus der legendären, englischsprachigen literarischen Avantgarde-Zeitschrift "transition", die E. Jolas 1927-1938 in Paris herausgab. Der Band enthält u. a. Texte von Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Kurt Schwitters, Hugo Ball, TristanTzara, André Breton, Ivan Goll, Else Lasker-Schüler, Carl Einstein, Hans Arp und Gertrude Stein. Ein gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.
Published by Paris, 1929
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
This copy has been rebound in a light blue linen hardcover; the Man Ray cover has not been bound-in and is missing; 298+ pages; in English; otherwise very good condition except a few pages have small pieces missing at edges. Includes contributions by: Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, Eugene Atget, James Joyce, Andre Masson, Tina Modotti, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and many others.
Published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris, 1927
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
paperback. Condition: very good(+). First. 163p., printed wrappers, uncut; edges lightly chipped & browned. Paris: Shakespeare & Co., August, 1927. First Edition. Good copy of a fragile publication. Contributors include James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Andre Breton, Robert McAlmon, et al.
Published by Gotham Bookmart Press, New York, 1941
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG in 1/4 black cloth with cream boards. Front board design by Alexander Calder. Upper and outer edges of boards and spine considerably age darkened. Offset to end paper hinges front and rear. Edgewear, chipping to lower outer corner of front board. Very faint water stain at heel of spine not affecting interior. Previous owner's note on ffep: "RPC: Please interpret - SH, 12/25/44". Size: Octavo. Book.
Published by Transition, Paris, 1928
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good Only. Various (illustrator). First edition. The summer 1928 issue of this experimental literary journal, with contributions from Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, and plates after Man Ray and Pablo Picasso. With cover art from Pablo Picasso, this is issue number 13, Summer 1928, of experimental literary journal 'transition'. Featuring surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists, the publication ran from 1927 to 1938, with a total of twenty-seven issues ultimately produced.This issue features photographic plates from Man Ray, Berenice Abbott and others, alongside plates depicting reproductions of the work of Picasso. Contributors to this work include James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein.This important literary journal was intended as an outlet for experimental writing and featured modernist, surrealist and other linguistically innovative writing, alongside contributions from visual artists, critics, and political activists.With eighteen pages of advertisements to the rear of the work. In the publisher's original paper binding. Front wrap, back strip and rear wrap all detached but present. Discolouration, folds and chipping to perimeters of wraps. Half title also detached from binding. Otherwise, internally firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type. Good Only. book.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Man Ray, Joan Miro, et al. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Printing. Original Illustrated wraps by Marcel Duchamp. Contains prose by James Agee, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Erwin Panofsky, Charles Tracey, Alexander Calder, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Georges Pelorson, Keidrych Rhysand, and Michael Stuart; Poetry by James Agee, Forrest Anderson, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, Randall Jarrell, Raymond Queneau, Andre de Richaud, Muriel Rukeyser, Sanders Russell, and Camille Schuwer; Music by Aaron Copland; Art by Man Ray, Fernand Leger, Andre Lhole, Grace Pailthorpe, Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Alberto Magnelli, Joan Miro, Jean Helion, Jans Hartung, John Piper, Wolfgang Paalen, Wassili Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Julio Gonzalez, Nahum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, and Henry Moore. Yellow subscription slip tipped-in at final page. . Wear along edges of wraps, otherwise bright, clean, and tight. VERY GOOD +. Transition: A Quarterly Review Series. Vol. 26. Photographs and Reproductions. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 208, (6) pp.
Published by Jolas, Eugene ed., 1937
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover journal, 208 pages; in English;; With Marcel Duchamp's front cover of a comb. No internal markings. Includes contributions by: Man Ray, James Joyce, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy James Agee, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, Franz Kafka, Brassai, Edward Weston, Fernand Leger, Blossfeldt, Piet Mondrian. Cover has a bit of edge wear Small piece missing top right corner. Chip at spine. Other wise a firm copy.
Published by Shakespeare and Co., May & June, Paris, 1927
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Full Leather. Condition: Fine. Two issued bound together by Bayntun in full tan calf with gilt frames, ornate gilt spine panels with gilt-stamped title on a black morocco label, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pp. 185, [5] adverts; [183], [6] adverts, 2 double-sided black & white plates in No. 2 and also in No. 3. Bound without the original wrappers and without the half-title to No. 3, pages tanned as usual. Joints rubbed, outer corner of No. 3 title-page missing with loss to the year, professionally repaired. A beautifully bound, handsome copy of two early issues of this important literary review produced in Paris in the twenties. Sylvia Beach in her book "Shakespeare and Company, talks of 'transition': "All the best Anglo-Saxon and European work of the period appeared in it, much of it for the first time. Of all the reviews I came in contact with, 'transition' was the most vital, the longest-lived, and the review that I felt was most intelligently devoted to the interests of new writing." Contributors include: James Joyce, Gottfried Benn, Elliot Paul, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kay Boyle, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Morley Callaghan, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Pavel Tchelitcheff, Laura Riding, Size: 12mo. Book.