$625
Edited by Eugene Jolas. Paris: Transition Press, 1927-1938. 22 issues in 29 vols. [comprising ns. 1 (2), 2 (3), 3 (2), 4 (2), 6 (2), 9-14, 15 (2), 16/17 (3), 18-22, and 25-27]. 8vo, original color printed wrappers (duplicate copies of issues 15 and 16/17 rebound in navy blue cloth). Housed in five archival boxes. A large collection of this important pre-World War II literary journal with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Bataille, Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud, Gertrude Stein, Alexander Calder, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Andre Masson, and others. Some wrappers detached; chipping and soiling to wrappers; toning to extremities of leaves; scattered brownspotting.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-05-07