(Modernism), Eugene Jolas (edited), three issues of 'Transit...

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(Modernism), Eugene Jolas (edited), three issues of 'Transition', the quarterly literary journal of the 1920s/30s featuring modernist and surrealist literature and art, comprising 'Transition. An International Workshop for Orphic Creation. March 1932. No. 21', Servire Press, 1932, cover by Hans Arp, content includes Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce etc, 325,[11]pp, original pictorial wraps, top wrap with ownership signature of Harry Henry (1916-2008), marketing & market research pioneer of international reputation and wartime statistician, 'Transition. An Intercontinental Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation. July 1935. No. 23', Servire Press, 1935, cover by Paul Klee, content includes Franz Kafka, James Joyce etc, 205,[8]pp, together with the supplement 'Testimony against Gertrude Stein. [By Georges Brague, Eugene Jolas, Maria Jolas, Henri Matisse, André Salmon and Tristan Tzara. Correcting statements made about the authors in “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.” Edited by E. Jolas.], Servire Press, 1935, 15pp, Transition Pamphlet No.1, original stapled printed wraps, 'Transition. A Quarterly Review. Fall 1936. No.25', Servire Press, 1936, cover by Joan Miró, content by Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Piet Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger etc, 216pp, subscription slip tipped in at end, original pictorial wraps; plus Eugene Jolas: 'The Language of Night', The Hague, Servire Press, 1932, limited edition (one of 550 copies only), 60pp, original wraps; plus Jean Cocteau: 'Cock and Harlequin : notes concering music ... Translated ... by Rollo H. Myers. With a portrait of the author and two monograms by Pablo Picasso.', London, The Egoist Press, 1921, port. frontis of the author by Picasso, original printed wraps (spine with two part losses); plus Michel Carrouges: 'Les Machines Célibataires', Paris, Arcanes, 1954, 1st edition, (1,980), frontis reproducing a drawing from Marcel Duchamp's "La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même.", controversial essays on Duchamp, Kafka, Roussel, Jarry, Villiers, et el, ex library, rebound cloth gilt; plus 6 titles by Samuel Beckett published Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1950's/70s, 5 rebound cloth gilt, all ex London School of Economics Library (13)