Transition by Jolas Eugene (98 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.
Language: English
Published by The Servire Press 1933
- Softcover
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.Avol's Books LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Fair. Covers yellowed. Spine creased, shallow chip out of spine head. Wear to tips. Text evenly 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, etc.
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague 1935
- Softcover
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Condition: Poor. Covers are missing. Sewn paper, pages are loosely attached. Title page has tearing to the spine edge, is barely attached, and has uneven browning. Last page (ads) has a stain. ; Approx. 5 3/4" wide by 8 3/4". Contents include Ontinuation of Work in Progress by James Joyce; and others. ; 205 pages.
Published by Transition/Shakespeare and Co., Paris 1928
- Softcover
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Condition: Poor. Covers are missing. Sewn paper, pages are loosely attached. Pages are slightly browned. ; Approx. 6 1/2" wide by 8 3/4". Contents include Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein; Stairway of Pain by Richard Aldington; and others. ; 279 pages.
Published by Walter V. McKee 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.Riverby Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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 sp…ine 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.
Published by Transition/Shakespeare and Co., Paris 1928
- Softcover
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Condition: Poor. Front cover has two ink spots, wear to the lower edge, and is barely attached. Rear cover and spine are missing. Sewn paper, pages are loosely attached. Pages are slightly browned, darker at the margins. Creasing to the upper outer corners of the last few leaves. Staining to the rear blank. ; Approx.…6 1/2" wide by 8 3/4". Contents include Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein; Stairway of Pain by Richard Aldington; and others. ; 279 pages.

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.
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague 1936
- Softcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller138+ 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.
Published by Shakespeare & Co., Paris 1933
- Softcover
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.Carothers and Carothers
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft 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.
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 Transition
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Number 14. Reading copy. Covers and most of spine missing. Binding shaken. Page edges frayed and brittle. (literature, surrealism, Gertrude Stein).
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Number 15. Reading copy. Covers and spine missing. Binding shaken. Page edges frayed and brittle. A few pencil marks on contents page. (literature, surrealism, Man Ray).

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
- Softcover
- 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.
Language: English
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague 1935
- Softcover
Seller: Don Kelly Books, London, , United KingdomDon Kelly Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 205pp + 7 pages of advertisments. Spine creases, small loss at head and foot.
Language: English
Published by Transition 1936
- Softcover
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.G.J. Askins Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Fine. 216 page paperback - the 1936 Fall issue of the Quarterly Review. Outer wrap is by Joan Miro in blue and black on white stock. Contributions by many known artists and writers: Mondrian, Moholy-Nagy, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Cartier-Bresson, Dylan Thomas and many others. Fine condition - absolutely n…o flaws.
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Published by Walter V. McKee, New York 1929
- Hardcover
- 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.
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Published by The Servire Press, The Hague 1935
- Softcover
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, CanadaThe Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB)
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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.
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Published by The Servire Press, The hague 1932
- Softcover
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, CanadaThe Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB)
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Card covers. Condition: Very Good. 322, [11] pages. Soiling and chipping to covers. Binding sound; contents clean. 9 x 6 inches.
More imagesPublished by Servire Press, The Hague 1936
- Softcover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.Mullen Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerSoftcover. White wraps, color illustrated; 138 pp; illustrated throughout in bw. June 1936 issue. Contents include: Cover [cover by Fernand Léger] -- Vertigral: -- Lyric / James Agee -- A song / James Agee -- Malacoda / Samuel Beckett -- Enueg II / Samuel Beckett -- Dortmunder / Samuel Beckett -- Alphabet book / Richard Eberhart… -- "Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'âme" / Richard Eberhart -- At watch / Eugene Jolas -- Ergriffenheit / Eugene Jolas -- Hypnologues / Eugene Jolas -- Two poems / James Johnson Sweeney -- Le nombre / Georges Pelorson -- Romance / Charles Tracy -- Temptation / Charles Tracy -- Motherhood / Charles Tracy -- Portrait of our house / Charles Tracy -- The painting / Charles Tracy -- Love poem / Oliver Wells -- Yorkshe / Oliver Wells -- Poem / Oliver Wells -- Dancing rope / George Whitsett -- Hotel / George Whitsett -- Paramyths: -- Take a number from one to ten / Wayne Andrews -- Chalumeaux des voix tressée / Fernand Auberjonois -- Le roi dans la vallée / Georges Pelorson -- Alamasatl / Eugene Jolas -- Spuk of the present / Eugene Jolas -- Oorana / Eugene Jolas -- Sonances I, II, III / George Whitsett -- The eye: -- Seeing and representation / James Johnson Sweeney -- Human concretion, 1965 / Hans Arp -- Composition, 1935 / Charles Biederman -- Mobile, 1936 / Alexander Calder -- Composition, 1931 / Alberto Giacometti -- Marionettes (Combat de Boxe) / F. Léger -- Suprematist compositions, 1914, 1915 / Kasimir Malevich -- Composition, 1927 / Joan Miro -- Wooden seat from the Greater Antilles, Santo Domingo -- American provincial art: Joseph Pickett, "Coryell's Ferry" -- Anonymous portrait -- Petite Fille Lisant / Pablo Picasso -- Merzbild, C.o.E.M. / Kurt Schwitters -- Drawing by a schizophrenic -- The ear: -- Ionisation, two pages from score, 1933 / Edgar Varèse -- Cinema: -- Bathing beauties, 1917 / Mack Sennett -- "Steamboat Willie", 1928 / Walt Disney -- "Modern Times", 1936 / Charles Chaplin -- Documents: -- Glossary / Eugene Jolas -- Romanticism and the dream / Eugene Jolas -- Race and language / Eugene Jolas -- Notes for a lexicon of night / Eugene Jolas -- Vertigral / Eugene Jolas -- Eskimo dance mask, Alaska -- Peyote songs / Martha Champion Huot -- Sauk and Fox ceremonial songs -- Chansons populaires du Canada franc ais -- Tête de Christ / Georges Roualt -- Fragments / Léon Bloy -- Two dreams / Davidson Taylor -- Woola woola / Eugene Jolas -- Architecture: -- Project for a surgical clinic on the Suez Canal, ground floor plan, second floor plan, isometric view, maquette view as from south-east / Paul Nelson. VG- (soling and shelfwear to wraps, small pieces missing from front and rear covers, pages lightly age toned but clean and clear.).
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+.
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Published by Transition, New York 1936
- Softcover
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, CanadaThe Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB)
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Card covers. Condition: Near Fine. 216 pages. A splendid example, retaining the subscription ticket; no inscriptions. 8.4 x 6.1 inches.
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.
Published by The Servire Press, The Hague 1935
- Softcover
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.Carothers and Carothers
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft 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 Supple…ment. 340 grams.
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Published by Vanguard Press, New York 1949
- Hardcover
- 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
- Hardcover
- 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.
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Published by Paris 1928
- Softcover
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, CanadaThe Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB)
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Card covers. Condition: Very Good. 152, [7] pages; one leaf of plates. Wrapper unevenly sunned; leaves toned. Binding sound; contents clean. Unopened. 7.6 x 5.5 inches.

Language: English
Published by New York: Transition. 1937
- Softcover
Seller: Antiquariat BehnkeBuch, Neu Kaliß, , GermanyAntiquariat BehnkeBuch
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220 S. Einband berieben, bestossen, nachgedunkelt und fleckig mit deutlichen Randläsuren. Seiten nachgedunkelt und leicht eselohrig, sonst gut. L34-2 Wichtiger Hinweis: Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung zur Zeit KEIN Versand in EU-Länder. Due to EPR, there is currently no delivery to EU-countries. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550… 21,5*15,5cm. OBroschur., OKlarsicht.
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Published by Transition, Neuilly s/S, France 1938
- Softcover
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, CanadaThe Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB)
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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.
Published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris 1928
- Softcover
- 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.