Books and Manuscripts · Lot 227

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.

Lot: 227
Auction: Auction 83, 24-28 November 2025
Section: from DADA to COBRA - WORKS FROM THE LIBRARY of ALDO and HANNIE VAN EYCK
Estimate: €200 – €300
Result: €230
Photos: 2 photos

Condition

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.

Notes

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.