Jolas Eugene Ed (25 results)

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.

138+ pp. 8vo, publisher's wrappers with illustration in color by Fernand Leger. Tiny ink name at head of title page; wrappers dust-soiled with a few tiny chips. Contributors to this issue include James Agee and Samuel Beckett.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 205pp + 7 pages of advertisments. Spine creases, small loss at head and foot.

Card covers. Condition: Very Good. 205, [7] pages. Wrapper toned, with chipping to head of spine, closed tear to the right of I at top front with tape repair verso. Heavy foxing to first few and final few leaves; else clean. Binding sound. 8.8 x 5.75 inches.

Card covers. Condition: Very Good. 322, [11] pages. Soiling and chipping to covers. Binding sound; contents clean. 9 x 6 inches.

Stapled Pamphlet. Condition: Good. 15pp. Wrappers tanned and foxed. Light foxing througout.

Card covers. Condition: Near Fine. 216 pages. A splendid example, retaining the subscription ticket; no inscriptions. 8.4 x 6.1 inches.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 23 stories from "transition" magazine, avant garde art and literary journal of the 1920s, featuring authors: Kafka, Joyce, Stein, Benn, Josephson, Boyle, Schwitters, Paul, Coates, etc. Art deco constructionist front and rear hardcovers, 1st edn, NF condition if not for slight stain at upper right corner of front cover.

Card covers. Condition: Very Good. 382, [5] pages, with erratum slip tipped in at p. 377. Spine and rear cover toned, and with tideline. Tideline to lower portion of fore edge, intruding to lower margin of first few and final few leaves particularly - otherwise unobtrusively. Old tape repair along the full length of upper hinge. Binding sound; no inscriptions. The final issue of this remarkable publication. 8 x 6 inches.

First edition. 8vo, 325 [11] pp, printed wraps designed and illustrated by Hans Arp. An important issue of the influential modernist little magazine. Among many stellar contributions, this issue is especially notable for including a section on James Joyce, including proofs of A Work in Progress [Finnegan's Wake], Joyce and Ogden rendering Anna Livia Plurabelle "in Basic English," the publication of Joyce's first translation - of his birth buddy James Stephens poem "Stephen's Green," into French - a caricature of Joyce by Cesar Abin, etc. Other contributors include Asturias, Samuel Beckett, Bob Brown, Franz Kafka, Henri Michaux, Gertrude Stein, Gottfired Benn, and many more. A battered good only example, the spine heavily darkened and creased, and the binding just holding but rather fragile.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Condition: 'Good' Notes: Cover by Joan Miro. With contributions by Dylan Thomas, Piet Mondrian, L. Maholy Nagy, Henry Cowell, S. Giedion, et al. Covers a little edgeworn and foxed/toned.

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.

15 pp. 8vo, publisher's self wrappers. First edition. Wrappers slightly tanned at edges; text much less so. Transition Pamphlet no. 1.

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.

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.

Softcover, 8vo (Spine yellowed)., Cover design by Sophie H. Taeuber-Arp. Includes Joyce Joyce's 'Continuation of a Work in Progress', Hans Arp's 'konfiguration', Hugo Ball's 'Cabaret ', Kurt Schwitters. Condition: good.

Softcover journal, 208 pages; in English; poor condition: there is a clear tape to covers around the spine; edges of covers chipped with small losses; light stains to front cover; about 4-inch waterstain to upper right edge of last half of pages and rear cover; no internal marks. 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 and many others. As is. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition, signed issue in full black cloth with gilt-stamped design by Alexander Calder and red & white spine title label, one of 100 copies printed on rag paper signed by Jolas, only trace shelf wear to the boards, tasteful bookplate to pastedown & faint tape shadows to endpapers front & rear from a mylar jacket made by former owner and taped (to itself) to keep it in place - well-done but unfortunately left these faint shadows to the pages opposite, else a Fine copy lacking the printed glassine wrapper of this interesting Jolas-curated venture featuring artwork by Andre Masson & Calder as well as early work from College of Sociology / Surrealist stalwarts Roger Caillois & Georges Bataille, along with a literary who's who of the 30s and 40s; 8vo; 201pp + colophon. Signed by Author.

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.

NY. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; The Vanguard Press, Inc. ; 1949; . First Edition. Ed: Jolas, Eugene. Transition Workshop. NY: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1949, First edition, 413 pp. Inscribed to Phil Lyman (long time manager of the famous Gotham Book Mart) on the half title page by Maria Jolas (McDonald) Eugene Jolas's wife and co-founder of the experimental literary magazine Transition which published works by authors such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Henry Miller, and Gertrude Stein to name a few. Dust jacket good with several small tears and chips. Original black cloth boards with title pastedown to spine. Very good with light wear to the extremities. First thus, no later editions noted. 413 pages with a selected bibliography. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 413 pages; Signed by Associated . Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; The Vanguard Press, Inc. ; 1949; First Edition.