Editore: Book-of-the-Month Club, 2000
Da: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. An anthology of scarce essays and articles on Scott by Hemingway, Budd Schulberg, Sheilah Graham, John Dos passes, Alfred Kazin, etc., including the rare "Fitzgerald's First Flapper" by Amar Shah and the famous obituary from The New York Times of 1940. A superb copy.
Editore: The Vanguard Press, New York, 1949
Da: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition of this uncommon anthology of work published in the experimental interwar literary journal, by Hemingway, Joyce, Kafka, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and many others. 9.25'' x 6''. Original black and grey cloth. In original unclipped ($5.00) 413, [1] pages. Light wear to cloth, some chipping and soil to jacket. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published in New York by The Vanguard Press, Inc. in 1949. No indication of later printing. Book very good, some discoloration on front board, minor rubbing along bottom edges and on head and tail of spine, previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. No DJ.
Editore: Transition / Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1938
Da: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition. Complete run of Eugene and Maria Jolas's landmark literary journal, which - along with Margaret Anderson's THE LITTLE REVIEW - was one of the primary vehicles of Modernist and experimental writing. Over the course of 11 years, often times under great financial difficulty, they published a who's-who of modernist and experimental authors, alongside the work of Surrealist, Expressionist, and Dada artists: "TRANSITION would explore the literary currents washing over Europe and America, present them all if they showed 'imaginative emancipation' as against descriptive naturalism" (Hoffman). Beginning with the very first issue, they published several portions of James Joyce's Work in Progress (Finnegans Wake), and notably, Jolas's English translation of Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS, which appeared in issues 24-26. Contributors across other issues include Kay Boyle, Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, Hilda Doolittle, Paul Bowles, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Bob Brown, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, André Breton, André Gide, Marcel Duchamp, and others. A notoriously fragile publication, with complete sets in original condition seldom encountered in commerce, TRANSITION is a difficult run to assemble - especially in original wrappers and in collectible condition. A rare monument to Modernism and the early avant garde. Twenty-seven issues bound in twenty-five volumes, early issues 7.5'' x 5.5'', later 8.6'' x 6''. Original typographic and pictorial wrappers all. Various paginations (circa 150-325 pages most). Most issues have light wear to extremities, gentle sunning to spines and wrappers, some of the usual tanning to text edges, with occasional small edge tears, and some dust-soil to wrappers; small loss to front wrapper on No.3, with some small nicks, tears, and attendant creases to the taller issues; a few issues with previous owners names, another half-dozen with occasional foxing or minor soil to spines or wrappers; No.18 with shallow loss to lower margin of one plate; in many volumes, pages are still unopened. Very good to near fine overall.