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transition stories: Twenty-three stories from "transition" edited by Eugene Jolas and Robert Sage
by Gottfried Benn, Kay Boyle, Robert M Coates, Emily Holmes Coleman, Robert Desnos, William Closson Emory, Leon-Paul Fargue, Konstantin Fedin, Murray Godwin, Leigh Hoffman, Eugene Jolas, Matthew Josephson, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Lidin, Ralph Manh
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About This Item
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).
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- Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
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- TransitionStories_EJ_1929
- Title
- transition stories
- Author
- Gottfried Benn, Kay Boyle, Robert M Coates, Emily Holmes Coleman, Robert Desnos, William Closson Emory, Leon-Paul Fargue, Konstantin Fedin, Murray Godwin, Leigh Hoffman, Eugene Jolas, Matthew Josephson, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Lidin, Ralph Manh
- Illustrator
- Albert Schiller, Irving Politzer
- Format/Binding
- Octavo. Black cloth and decorative boards in original dust-jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Walter V. McKee
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 368
- Size
- 19 x 13cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- anthology, modernism, little magazines
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Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
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Ballydehob, Cork
About Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
Welcome to the Biblio.com shop front for Houyhnhnm Press and Ithys Press, fine-press publishers of limited editions. We also collect and deal in modernist literature and books of Irish interest.
Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
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Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com
http://ithyspress.com
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- Tail
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