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Transition

(no.4, 6) / (...) An International Quarterly for Creative Experiment (no.18) / (...) An International Workshop for Orphic Creation (no.21, 22) / (...) An Intercontinental Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation (no. 23) / (...) A Quarterly Review (no.25). Ed. E. Jolas. Paris/ The Hague/ New York, Shakespeare and Co./ The Servire Press/ Transition, 1927-1936, 7 vols., plates, ills., orig. wr., i.a. by Kurt SCHWITTERS (no.18), Hans ARP (no.21), Sophie TAEUBER-ARP (no.22), Juan MIRÓ (no.25), various 8vo sizes.

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227
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200 € – 300 €
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230 €
Fotos
2 Fotos

Zustand

No.6 lacks p.81-106. All yellowed. Wrappers (sl.) dustsoiled and occas. worn; the first 3 issues wr. (sl.) frayed (no.18 badly frayed); a few spine-ends (sl.) dam.

Anmerkungen

Important and influential magazine, of which 25 issues were published between 1927-1938, featuring almost every avant-garde writer of the period, i.a. various episodes of James Joyce's "Work In Progress", which later would become Finnegans Wake. No.18 and 23 w. the orig. (sl. frayed and dustsoiled) leaflet advertising the contents of the issue loosely inserted. Le Fonds Paul Destribats 267.