TRANSITION Transition. Quarterly Review, nos. 1-4, 6-9, 12-27, FIRST EDITIONS, Paris, Shakespear...

TRANSITION Transition. Quarterly Review, nos. 1-4, 6-9, 12-27, FIRST EDITIONS, photographic illustrations, some spotting and toning, printed pictorial paper wrappers, worn, some covers torn or detached, spine ends chipped, 8vo, Paris, Shakespeare and Co., 1927-1933; The Hague, The Servire Press, 1934-1935; New York, Transition, 1936-1938; together with duplicates of issues 8, 19/20, 22, 24, 25 and 27, 3 copies of issue 23, and a copy of An Elucidation by Gertrude Stein (supplement printed in April 1927), and one issue of The Quarter, Spring 1925 (32) Footnotes: Includes Duchamp's famous silver comb issue. Edited by the poet Eugene Jolas, Transition was a significant literary platform of modernist literature and art published between 1927 and 1938 in 27 issues, with contributions from leading writers and artists of the Surrealist, Dada, and Modernist schools. Issues number 1 and 3 contain excerpts by James Joyce of what would become Finnegans Wake under the title 'Work in Progress'. Issue 21, subtitled 'An International Workshop for Orphic Creation,' contains an Homage to James Joyce for his fiftieth birthday, with contributions from Samuel Beckett and Stuart Gilbert, and an excerpt from Anna Livia Plurabelle in 'basic English'. This issue also contains the first appearance of Samuel Beckett's 'Sedendo et Quiesciendo'. The magazine's covers included art by Pablo Picasso, Stuart Davis, Man Ray, Gretchen Powel, Kurt Schwitters, Eli Lotar, Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, and Wassily Kandinsky. The penultimate issue of the magazine, no. 26, is especially sought after for Marcel Duchamp's cover featuring a silver comb, which Joyce joked to Sylvia Beach was the one used to comb out Work in Progress. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing