Transition 1 Forty-Eight
Duthuit, Georges, Editor
Published by Transition Press, Paris, 1948
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Small bound paper 8vo. 132 pp plus ads at rear. The first issue of the 'new" Transition magazine under the editorial tutelage of Georges Duthuit. A literary journal devoted to French literature with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugene Jolas, Jean Wahl, Georges Bataille and others. Paper tanned with age and slightly brittle. Overall a very good example. Seller Inventory # 23963
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Title: Transition 1 Forty-Eight
Publisher: Transition Press, Paris
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First edition.
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TRANSITION FORTY-EIGHT - NOS.1-6 (COMPLETE RUN)
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Transition Press 1948-1950, Paris, 1948
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First Edition
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
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First Editions. Six octavo volumes (18.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 132,[4]; 151,[7]; 151,[9]; 153,[7]; 128,[12]; 150,[2]pp; illus. Gentle sunning and light wear to spines and extremities, tanning to text edges, with some faint foxing to upper edge of textblocks; faint $1.00 price rubber stamped at upper right corner of No.6; issue No.5, with the illustrated Matisse cover, retains the original printed glassine wraparound band; a Near Fine set. Accompanied by a Fine copy of the original 4pp prospectus [1947], printed on vellum paper. Complete run of this post-war revival of Eugene Jolas's Transition under the editorial direction of Georges Duthuit, a French author and art critic with close ties to the surrealists. Referred to in the prospectus as Transition Cahiers, the publication was meant to be "an English-language review, edited in Paris for distribution to English-speaking readers throughout the world.It's aim will be to present in translation the most important writing, either as to form or content, as it appears in contemporary French publications: essays, articles, enquêtes, stories, poems, etc. to which will be added short accounts of any other works of interest." Contents include contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Jolas, Georges Bataille, André Malraux, Samuel Beckett, Jean Maquet, Jean Wahl, Tristan Tzara, Rene Leibowitz, Jean Genet, André Gide, Henri Michaux, Alfred Jarry, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Edgar Degas, René Char, Julien Gracq, Guillaume Apollinaire, and others. Seller Inventory # 6180
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