Transition: A Quarterly Review No. 26, Winter 1937
Issue number 26 of the quarterly review Transition, an experimental literary and arts journal founded in 1926 by Maria Mcdonald and her husband Eugene Jolas. Edited by Jolas and James Johnson Sweeney. Published in Paris in the winter of 1937 by Transition. With contributions and work from James Agee, Randall Jarrell, Paul Eluard, Hans Arp, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Aaron Copland, Man Ray, Brassai, Edward Weston, Fernand Leger, Andre Lhoot, Josef Albers, Joan Miro, Joan Helton, Wolfgang Paalen, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Calder, J.M. Richards, Piet Mondrian, Julio Gonzalez, Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, Eugene Jolas, and Stuart Gilbert. Features the Erwin Panofsky essay “Style and Medium in the Moving Pictures” and a cover design by Marcel Duchamp that combined his readymade “Comb” with the review’s logo. 8vo, pictorial wrappers, 208 pages plus ads, b/w and half-tone illustrations. Arguably the most important and prized issue in the run. Creasing and chipping to extremities. Minor soiling to rear wrapper. Contents pristine.
Issue number 26 of the quarterly review Transition, an experimental literary and arts journal founded in 1926 by Maria Mcdonald and her husband Eugene Jolas. Edited by Jolas and James Johnson Sweeney. Published in Paris in the winter of 1937 by Transition. With contributions and work from James Agee, Randall Jarrell, Paul Eluard, Hans Arp, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Aaron Copland, Man Ray, Brassai, Edward Weston, Fernand Leger, Andre Lhoot, Josef Albers, Joan Miro, Joan Helton, Wolfgang Paalen, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Calder, J.M. Richards, Piet Mondrian, Julio Gonzalez, Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, Eugene Jolas, and Stuart Gilbert. Features the Erwin Panofsky essay “Style and Medium in the Moving Pictures” and a cover design by Marcel Duchamp that combined his readymade “Comb” with the review’s logo. 8vo, pictorial wrappers, 208 pages plus ads, b/w and half-tone illustrations. Arguably the most important and prized issue in the run. Creasing and chipping to extremities. Minor soiling to rear wrapper. Contents pristine.
Issue number 26 of the quarterly review Transition, an experimental literary and arts journal founded in 1926 by Maria Mcdonald and her husband Eugene Jolas. Edited by Jolas and James Johnson Sweeney. Published in Paris in the winter of 1937 by Transition. With contributions and work from James Agee, Randall Jarrell, Paul Eluard, Hans Arp, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Aaron Copland, Man Ray, Brassai, Edward Weston, Fernand Leger, Andre Lhoot, Josef Albers, Joan Miro, Joan Helton, Wolfgang Paalen, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Calder, J.M. Richards, Piet Mondrian, Julio Gonzalez, Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, Eugene Jolas, and Stuart Gilbert. Features the Erwin Panofsky essay “Style and Medium in the Moving Pictures” and a cover design by Marcel Duchamp that combined his readymade “Comb” with the review’s logo. 8vo, pictorial wrappers, 208 pages plus ads, b/w and half-tone illustrations. Arguably the most important and prized issue in the run. Creasing and chipping to extremities. Minor soiling to rear wrapper. Contents pristine.
