[Important periodical] Transition. No. 21, no. 23 and no. 32

An international workshop for Orphic Creation/ (...) for Vertigralist Transmutation. Edited by Eugene Jolas. The Hague, Servire, March 1932/ July 1935, 325,(1); 205,(7) p., with plates and illustrations, original wrapper with illustration by Hans Arp/ Paul Klee.

No. 21 foxed, wrapper waterstained and slightly browned; No. 23 wrapper partly faded and slightly soiled. No. 32 included in two copies (the second in slightly inferior condition). "One of the most celebrated of the little magazines of the inter-war period (...). The magazine has two distinct claims to fame. First, it was a vigorous advocate for that brand of modernism propounded by the manifesto 'The Revolution of the Word Proclamation', which appeared in an early issue. Second, it numbered among its contributors three major writers of this century, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett (...) as well as many dadaïsts, French surrealists and German expressionists. In the case of Joyce (...) Jolas not only published his 'Work in Progress' (later to become Finnegans Wake) but also championed the work by soliciting and publishing exegetical articles" (MacMillan, Transition. The history of a literary era 1927-1938, Amsterdam, 1975, inside dust jacket. Copy added to the lot). (total 4)