transition: a quarterly review (number twenty-five)
fall 1936.
this literary journal was launched in paris in april 1927 by maria mcdonald with her husband eugene jolas, and distributed through shakespeare and company. it quickly became a place for modernism’s stranger experiments: printing joyce’s work in progress (later finnegans wake), translating and introducing surrealists and dadaists to anglophone readers, and issuing the 1929 “revolution of the word proclamation” calling for a new multilingual prose.
no. 25 is a a marker of the journal’s peak years when parisian avant-garde energy was relocating to new york.
cover art by joan miró.
new york: transition. 6 x 8.25 inches. 216 pages. paperback. bound in illustrated paper wrappers. light shelfwear. very good++.
from the library of richard perlbinder. Item #1326
Price: $150.00
