Transition Stories Twenty Three by Eugene Jolas Robert Sage (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Red cloth over boards with black lettering to the spine. Dated 1929 on the copyright and title page. 354 pages. Good condition. Binding is strong. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Spine has wear as well. A small piece of the book cloth missing from head of the spine. Entire spine toned. Faint discoloration to the rest of the covers. Pages are lightly toned throughout, with darker toning to the endpapers. A bit of foxing to the endpapers as well. Overall good condition. Contains short stories from James Joyce(A Muster from Work in Progress), Franz Kafka(The Sentence), and Gertrude Stein(As A Wife Has A Cow A Love Story) as well as other authors. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition: no later printings listed. Wear to the edges of the pictorial paper-covered boards. No slope or twist from improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Name in ink with a gift note dated 1930 inside the front cover. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The spine is sun faded. In a mylar protector.

First 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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. VG+ with light edgewear to original deco illustrated boards by Albert Schiller, in VG dust soiled DJ with shallow chipping to head and heel of sun faded spine panel. 1/4" closed tear on upper edge front panel. Tiny bookseller's ticket to lower inner corner of rear pastedown.

First Edition. Octavo. 354 pages. Boldly signed by William Closson Emory on p. 49, dated January 1929. The close friendship between Jolas and James Joyce led Joyce to write a dedication to him just when he later wrote A Homage to James Joyce. Also in this volume is Kafka's "The Sentence " and Gertrude Stein's "As a wife has a cow: a love story". Bound in 1/4 black cloth over decorative paper covered boards designed by Albert Schiller with special permission,light toning to board edges, corners somewhat worn, a bit of fading spine, in unclipped dust jacket missing portions of the spine (head and foot), short edge tears front and rear panells, wear to corners, light toning to page edges. A very good copy.