transition 

Issue #11, February 1928

edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul

Issue No. 11.  Paris:  transition, 1928  

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Blue wraps have navy ink title and text. 
• Wraps show some exposure, creasing at corners, over-written price, chipping and wear to edges.  Corners are bumped, softened.  See photos. 
• Spine has navy text dimmed and is darkened, cracked, with chipped ends.  See photos.
• Binding is tender; covers show some signs of separation.  See photos.
• Illustrations are bright and clear, plates are tipped-in, with some offset toning.  See photos.
• Publisher's advertisements follow the editorial content. 
• Interior is tanned, more at margins, exhibits light edgewear, a couple creased corners. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Text block edges are untrimmed. 
• PS2026.0624

152 pages. 5.5 x 7.5 inches

Issue Number 11 of transition, a landmark avant-garde modernist literary magazine launched in Paris in April, 1927.  Publisher's blue paper wraps printed in navy ink are toned with age and exposure, with tiny chips along the opening edges.  Interior is tanned, free from writing and marks.  Spine strip shows cracking and has a small chip at foot, 1/2" chip at head; binding is intact, a little tender.  A Very Good- copy of this original issue.

Published in Paris in February 1928, Issue 11 of transition was a landmark edition of the influential modernist magazine.  Edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul, it featured pioneering avant-garde fiction, poetry, and art, including a serialized segment of James Joyce’s "Work in Progress" (which later became Finnegans Wake) and the English translation of Franz Kafka's short story "The Sentence."

Edited and published in Paris; the principal sales agency was Shakespeare and Co. in Paris.  Circulation was upward of 1000 copies. 

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