Transition by Jolas Eugene: First Edition (52 results)

- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Schindler-Graf Booksellers, Westlake, OH, U.S.A.Schindler-Graf Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket; First Edition, published in London, 1990. 256 pages, illustrated. An anthology of poetry and prose, essays and criticism, and representative examples of modern art by 20th century masters. No marks or writing to book. YThe d…ust jacket has some surface bubbling to the laminate; otherwise about Near Fine.

Published by Transition Press 1948
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Arundel Books
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Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Second Issue of this post-war revival of Eugene Jolas's Transition this time under the editorial direction of Georges Duthuit. 152pp., in the original cream printed wraps, cover illustration by Matisse. This issue features: Apoem 4, by Henri Pichette; 'Was that all, then?', by Andre Ma…lraux; The Return, by Jean Maquet; One Cause, Two-Fold Defense, by Andre Breton; On A Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras (II), by Antonin Artaud; Why Does One Write, by Jean-Paul Sartre; Three Poems, by Samuel Beckett; Sartre's Last Class, by Georges Duthuit; and Documents: Mark, Lautreamont, Heidegger? with text by Georges Bataille, Andre Breton, Max-Pol Fouchet, Henri Mougin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tristan Tzara, et al. Light tanning to the wraps, and a touch of soiling to the top edges, else a nice clean copy, tight uncreased spine, else Very Good.
Language: English
Published by Servire Press 1936
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Zimnol Arts Books, Middx, , United KingdomZimnol Arts Books
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Card Cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Influential literary review including Samuel Beckett poem Malacoda, Hans Arp image, photos form Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times anf Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie. Poems by James Agee and James Johnson plus many more articles and images by a variety of contributors. Cover design by Fernan…d Leger. Age and slight loss to spine. Previous owner's neat signature. to spine.Otherwise clean. pp.138.

Published by Servire Press, The Hague 1936
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.LEFT COAST BOOKS
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Good. 1st. 138 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Browning. *** Cover art by Fernand Leger. Size: 8vo. Leger, Fernand (illustrator). Collectible.
Published by Transition 1936
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- First Edition
Seller: Hiding Place Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.Hiding Place Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bright VG+ copy, lovely Miro cover.
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Published by Walter V. McKee, New York 1929
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- First Edition
Seller: Booklore ., Holt, NORFO, United KingdomBooklore .
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 355 pages. Cover illustration designed by Albert Schiller. Book seller's ticket, Mabel Ulrich, to the front paste-down. The book has been expertly re-backed and the old acidic endpapers replaced. Originally title lettering relaid onto new cloth spine. The whole now protected…in removable acetate jacket.
More imagesPublished by Transition 1936
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bendowa Books, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A.Bendowa Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1936. 216 pages. Book measures 6 x 8.25 inches. Cover art by Joan Miro. Excellent issue of Transition featuring contributions by Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Piet Mondrian, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Hugo Ball, Henri Cartier-Bresso…n, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Henry Cowell among many others. Oversize wrappers show light wear, and faint rubbing. Otherwise a very nice copy. Very Good+.
Published by NY: Walter V. McKee, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst edition. xii + 354 pp. Very good in illustrated boards with cloth spine, that is sunned. Introduction by Jolas. A terrific selection including work by Benn, Desnos, Joyce, Kafka, Schwitters, Soupault, Stein, and others.
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Published by Vanguard Press, New York 1949
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- First Edition
Seller: Antiquariat Rolf Bulang, Dautphetal, , GermanyAntiquariat Rolf Bulang
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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.
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Published by Walter V. McKee, New York 1929
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- First Edition
Seller: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.Bohemian Bookworm
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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 sli…ght stain at upper right corner of front cover.
Published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris 1928
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- First Edition
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerpaperback. Condition: very good(-). First. 8vo, printed light tn wrappers. Paris: Shakespeare & Co., January, 1928. Contributions by Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, Wm. Carlos Williams, and others. The wrappers are lightly soiled and missing an inch at the base of the spine.
More imagesPublished by Servire Press 1932
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Fantastic Book Discoveries, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.Fantastic Book Discoveries
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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. March 1932 issue, spine somewhat worn, no markings, over two pounds, shipping above standard outside U.S.

Published by Servire Press, New York 1932
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- First Edition
Seller: Sixes Book & Tackle, Port Orford, OR, U.S.A.Sixes Book & Tackle
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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.
Published by Transition 1936
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- First Edition
Seller: Old Goat Books, Waterloo, ON, CanadaOld Goat Books
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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.
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague 1932
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- First Edition
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.sonalsorises
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, stain to top of front cover. Cover illustration by Hans Arp. Contains "Homage to James Joyce" with a contribution and facsimile by Joyce. Early work by Samuel Beckett, also Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka and others. This issue publis…hed in March of 1932. Hans Arp (illustrator).
Published by McKee, New York 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.Brazos Bend Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. A sound, solid and unmarked copy. Jacket is chipped at upper corners and has about one-half inch of loss at head and tail of spine. Original $2.50 price intact on front flap. Includes contributions from Kay Boyle, James…Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, and others. 354 pages.
Published by The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in illustrated cloth in a Fine black, red and white dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with one tiny closed tear lower front spinefold at heel. 413pp. Contributors list is a who's who of the literary scene entre les deux guerres: Bec…kett, Boyle, Hemingway, Joyce Nin, Riding, Stein, Thomas, Williams, Schwitters, Saroyan, Alberti, Agee, Crane, Crosby, Gide, Graves, Jarrell, Michaux Reverdy, Roditi, Tate, Zukofsky, Miller, Bowles, Breton, just to name a few. Lovely copy. Q14303.

Published by Transition, New York 1936
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. no dust jacket. First edition. 8vo. Softcover. 216 pp.This issue features a cover with an illustration by Joan Miro along with internal illustrations by Matthew Brady, Piet Mondrian, L. Moholy-Nagy, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Paul Strand and others and Includes contributions by Ha…rry Brown, Eugene Jolas, Dylan Thomas, Oliver Wells, Franz Kafka and others. Subscription form still attached at the rear. Joan Miro (illustrator).
Published by Transition, New York 1936
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
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Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. First edition. 8vo New York: Transition, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. 216 pages. Cover illustration by Joan Miro along with internal illustrations by Matthew Brady, Piet Mondrian, L. Moholy-Nagy, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Paul Strand and others. Includes litera…ry and other contributions by Harry Brown, Eugen Jolas, Dylan Thomas, Oliver Wells, Franz Kafka and others. Miro, Joan (illustrator).

Published by The Servire Press, The Hague (Holland) 1935
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 205, [7 ads] pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Short tears on the cover along the spine, creases and small chips on the spine with rubbing on the rear wrap, very good. Contains a special section: "James Joyce and His New Work," including James Jo…yce's, "Continuation of a Work in Progress: Opening and Closing Pages, Part II, Section II" ; also prints two articles about Joyce (by Leon-Paul Fargue and Armand M. Petitjean). Additional contributions by Malcolm Cowley, Eugene Jolas, Franz Kafka, and more.

Published by Walter V. McKee 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth spine over paper-covered boards illustrated by Albert Schiller, under orange & white dust jacket designed by Irving Politzer, 7-3/4" x 5-3/8", 354 pp. Book very clean & solid, a few leaves toward the end are unopened, one triangular spot of fa…ding to spine where DJ is chipped: jacket has some toning, spine panel dulled & chipped/creased at top of spine panel. An important anthology of modernist writing with authors such as Kay Boyle, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and more.
Published by Fall,, N.Y.,, 1936
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- First Edition
Seller: adr. van den bemt, Groningen, NL, Netherlandsadr. van den bemt
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Orig wrps, 8vo, 216 pp. First Edition. Original printed wrappers, cover by Joan Miro, fine. Contains two works by Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Eugene Jolas; art by Piet Mondrian, Brancusi, Joan Miro, Henri Matisse. "Vertigral Workshop." Good condition.
More imagesPublished by transition, new york 1936
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.leaves
Contact seller5-star sellerfall 1936. this literary journal was launched in paris in april 1927 by maria mcdonald with her husband eugene jolas, and distributed through shakespeare and company. it quickly became a place for modernism's stranger experiments: printing joyce's work in progress (later finnegans wake), translating and introducing surrealists a…nd dadaists to anglophone readers, and issuing the 1929 "revolution of the word proclamation" calling for a new multilingual prose. no. 25 is a a marker of the journal's peak years when parisian avant-garde energy was relocating to new york. cover art by joan miró. new york: transition. 6 x 8.25 inches. 216 pages. paperback. bound in illustrated paper wrappers. light shelfwear. very good++. from the library of richard perlbinder.
More imagesPublished by Privately Printed, Paris 1927
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- First Edition
Seller: Open Door Books MABA, Bath, ME, U.S.A.Open Door Books MABA
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green Card Covers, Slight Chipping At Bottom Front Cover, Tiny Chip. O/W Excellent. William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Allen Tate, Et Al. Very Rare176 Pgs 4 Pages Advertisments.

Published by Transition, Paris 1927
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- First Edition
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
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Wraps. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. First edition. 8vo. 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, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Pau…l Eluard, Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle et al. Includes the 5th installment of Joyce's (Finnegan's Wake) "Work in Progress".
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague. June, 1936
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- First Edition
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, , United KingdomPeter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB
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First edition. Octavo. 138 pages. Black and white reproductions of works by various artists, including Hans Arp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, F. Léger, Joan Miro, etc. Wrappers. Cover design by Léger. The contributors include Samuel Beckett (three poems), James Agee, Richard Eberhart, etc. The two subscription forms are… intact at the rear. Front cover a bit creased. Spine slightly darlkened. Very good.
Published by Thr Hague, The Servire Press, 1935. 1935
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Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, , AustriaAntiquariat CoBrA
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Thr Hague, The Servire Press, 1935. First edition. 8°. 205 Seiten und 32 Tafeln. Pictorial wrappers after a drawing by Paul Klee. "WE ARE WELLKNOWN FOR BOOKS ONLY IN BEST CONDITION" - WIR SIND BEKANNT FÜR SOLIDESTE VERPACKUNG" Back cover and back with tears, otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie un…s immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

Published by The Hague : Servire Press 1933
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 175 pages, plates : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm. Subjects; Literature, Modern; 20th century Periodicals. Art; 20th century Periodicals. Multiple languages. 3 Kg.

Published by The Hague : Servire Press 1933
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- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, , IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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First Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 175 pages, plates : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm. Subjects; Literature, Modern; 20th century Periodicals. Art; 20th century Periodicals. Multiple languages. 1 Kg.

Published by Transition, New York 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. First edition. 8vo. New York: Transition, 1937. First Edition. 208 pp. + [10] ads. b/w illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Cover art by Marcel Duchamp. Features poetry by James Agee, Forrest Anderson, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, Randall Jarrell, Eugene Jolas, Raymond Queneau, Andre… de Richaud, Muriel Rukeyser, Sanders Russell, and Camille Schuwer. Prose by James Joyce (Work in Progress- Finnegan's Wake), Franz Kafka, and Michael Stuart. 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. Writing by Erwin Panofsky, Charles Tracey, Alexander Calder, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Georges Pelorson, Keidrych Rhys. Yapped edges chipped and torn, creasing at corners, chipped along spine-ends with moderate loss, light soiling, interior clean and unmarked. Marcel Duchamp (illustrator).