Description:
New York: Walter V. McKee, 1929. First edition, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm). xii, 356pp. Bound in black cloth and decorative boards with a design by Albert Schiller, spine stamped in red, issued with a dust-jacket designed by Irving Politzer. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good+, unclipped dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear and soiling to extremities; shallow chipping to head and tail of wrapper.This historically significant anthology gathers experimental works from the first thirteen issues of "transition" magazine, one of the most influential little magazines of the 1920s. Founded by Eugene Jolas, Maria Jolas, and Elliott Paul, "transition" advocated the "metamorphosis of reality" through artistic expression and provided a platform for a new internationalist modernism. Included here as "A Muster from 'Work in Progress'," are seven excerpts of drafts for James Joyce's yet unnamed "Finnegans Wake" (textual excerpts which were revised for this printing and again for publication in 1939).
