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Life and Letters Today, Winter 1936-1937,International Monthly, Vol. XV, No.6, Very good, rubbed and chipped at extremities of binding, very little wear, binding tight, 248 pp. Contributors include Rilke, Rukeyser, Brecht, William Maxwell, C.J. Sisson, Gertrude Stein, Marya Zaturenska, Eisenstein.

Winter 1937 issue of Life and Letters Today (No. 10) with contributions from André Gide, Thomas Mann, William Empson, William Carlos Williams, H.D. Jean-Paul Sartre, Osbert Sitwell. Some edgewear to corners of spine, but very well preserved. Binding tight. Interior clean.

Near fine copy in original red wrappers with some nicks to edge of p.185 slight edgewear to top and bottom corners of spine-of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara. The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French writer-poet Henri Michaux, Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti and German philosopher Bernard Groethuysen. Among the contributions to this uncut copy #1192 of a limited multi-lingual edition of 1800-which comes from the collection of Barbara Church-are a Poetry by Paul Claudel, Francis Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Gide/Schiffrin translation of a story by Pushkin, a Chapter of Robert Musil's Man without Qualities translatd into French by Barbara Church, and unpublished Notes by Pirandello.

Near fine well-preserved copy in original blue wrap of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara, who lived on an estate at Ville d'Avray.,The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French writer-poet Henri Michaux, Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti and German philosopher Bernard Groethuysen. Among the contributions to this uncut copy (#1020) of a limited multi-lingual edition of 1800-which comes from the collection of Barbara Church-are a French translation of T.S. Eliot's Voyage of the Magi together with the original English version, and a Memoir by French surrealist and ethnographer Michel Leiris. 176 page. Bumping to corners of spine. One nick on rear wrap.

Henry Church Collection. Very good uncut copy in original green wraps with some faint discoloration to edges of cover and spine-of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife Barbara. The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French writer-poet Henri Michaux, Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti and philosopher Bernard Groethuysen. Among the contributions to this copy #76 of a limited multi-lingual edition of 1200-which comes from the collection of Barbara Church-are works by Martin Buber, Kierkegaard, a hitherto unpublished work by Madame de Lafayette, and by 12th century Arab mystic poet Omar Ibn El Faridh.

Henry Church Collection. Very good copy with some nicks to edges of original blue wraps of Quarterly financed by the American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara. The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French writer-poet Henri Michaux, Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti and philosopher Bernard Groethuysen. Among the contributors to this unnumbered copy of a limited multi-lingual edition of 1800-which comes from the collection of Barbara Church-are: Swiss writer Ramuz, poet Jules Supervielle, English Poet dramatist Thomas Lovell Beddoes, 16th century French alchemist Denys Zecaire and philosopher-writer Jean Grenier and Barbara Church. 176 pages in French with French and German translations of selected works. All pages uncut with the exception of pages 1-3.

Henry Church Collection. Very good copy in original green wraps with some sunning and discoloration to edges of cover and spine-of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara.The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French writer-poet Henri Michaux, Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti and philosopher Bernard Groethuysen. Among the contributors to this edition #780 of this limited multi-lingual edition of 1200-which comes from the collection of Barbara Church- are works by are Raymond Queneau, Henri Pourrat, Heidegger and Audiberti and Catalan poet Josep Carner. 190 pages

Twice a Year, nO. 1, Fall-Winter 1938, Very well-preserved copy of Biennial Journal published by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by by Rilke, Bourne, Dreiser, Silone, Anais Nin, Olson and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.Shelfwear to corners of spine and cover. Binding tight. Immaculate interior.

Well-preserved rare copy of Twice a Year, Number Two, Spring Summer 1939, Biennial Journal published in 1939 by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by Proust, William Carlos Williams, John Marin, James Laughlin. Very little wear. Some fraying to corners of spine. Sunning to strip on top cover edge. binding tight. Interior immaculate. 247 pp.

Transition, Paris, 1928. 6.5"x9". No. 13. uncut copy of literary review in original transparent protective wraps, produced in Paris in the twenties. Transition was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists. Founded in 1927 by Paris-based poet Eugene Jolas, it was originally intended to serve as an outlet for experimental poetry, but gradually expanded to incorporate contributions from sculptors, photographers, writers, civil rights activists, critics, and cartoonists. The magazine ran through the spring of 1938, with a total of 27 issues published. Sylvia Beach in her book "Shakespeare and Company," agent for the Journal, refers to 'Transition' as follows : "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."… Read More