TRANSITION NR 23 JOYCE'S WAKE IN EARLIEST FORM

(Joyce, James)
TRANSITION. NR 23. EDITED BY EUGENE JOLAS
Paris: The Servire Press, March 1935
22.5 x 15cm, 212pp + adverts + plates. Original card wrappers illustrated by a work by Paul Klee . A single number of this radical journal for literary experiment. This number from the series is significant for a section on James Joyce and his "New Work". As with other issues of Transition the Joyce Work in Progress is published as a part work - which eventually became the Wake (here Part II Section II) but htere are also essays on Joyce by Leon-Paul Fargue and Arman Petitjean. Elsewhere there are contributions by Eugene Jolas, Thereses Aubray, the dadaist Hugo Ball almost others as well as a round table discussion on "Mutation in Language". There are 8pp of plates hors texte near the end displaying sculptural works by Hans Arp, Giocometti, Naum Gabo, Jacques Lipshitz and Duchamp-Villon amongst others. The beginning and the end of the book are heavily foxed and the spine is showing a good deal of wear without actually cracking although there is a small paper loss and tears bottom left and a paper lack on the rear top right wrappers as well as some marks andd stains to the mostly white wrappers. Scarce.