TRANSITION FORTY-EIGHT - NOS.1-6 (COMPLETE RUN)
Paris: Transition Press, 1948-1950. First Editions. Complete run of this post-war revival of Eugene Jolas's Transition under the editorial direction of Georges Duthuit, a French author and art critic with close ties to the surrealists. Referred to in the prospectus as Transition Cahiers, the publication was meant to be "an English-language review, edited in Paris for distribution to English-speaking readers throughout the world...It's aim will be to present in translation the most important writing, either as to form or content, as it appears in contemporary French publications: essays, articles, enquêtes, stories, poems, etc. to which will be added short accounts of any other works of interest." Contents include contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Jolas, Georges Bataille, André Malraux, Samuel Beckett, Jean Maquet, Jean Wahl, Tristan Tzara, Rene Leibowitz, Jean Genet, André Gide, Henri Michaux, Alfred Jarry, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Edgar Degas, René Char, Julien Gracq, Guillaume Apollinaire, and others. Item #6180
Six octavo volumes (18.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 132,[4]; 151,[7]; 151,[9]; 153,[7]; 128,[12]; 150,[2]pp; illus. Gentle sunning and light wear to spines and extremities, tanning to text edges, with some faint foxing to upper edge of textblocks; faint $1.00 price rubber stamped at upper right corner of No.6; issue No.5, with the illustrated Matisse cover, retains the original printed glassine wraparound band; a Near Fine set. Accompanied by a Fine copy of the original 4pp prospectus [1947], printed on vellum paper.
Price: $650.00