TRANSITION #2; MAY 1927

Beschreibung

Octavo, 185 pages, plus [7] pages of advertisements. In Fair condition. Covers missing. Some of the original brown paper wrapper remains on the spine, heavily chipped. Text block shows moderate edge wear, with rubbing on all edges and corners. Binding is fragile. Stain affects pages in the advertising section at the rear of the book. Contains a "Work in Progress" (Finnigan's Wake) by James Joyce, other works by William Carlos Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, etc., art by Max Ernst, Juan Gris, Giorgio de Chirico, and Yves Tanguy. Housed in a card-backed, archival sleeve. SH consignment. Shelved in Room A. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403440. Special Collections.

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Titel

TRANSITION #2; MAY 1927

Verlag

Shakespeare and Co, Paris

Erscheinungsjahr

1927

Einband

Softcover

Auflage

First Edition.

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