Transition Stories: Twenty-Three Stories from "Transition" Selected and Edited by Eugene Jolas and Robert Sage

New York: Walter V. McKee, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good. Wear to exterior includes chipping to cloth at spine, a few closed tears along hinges, and one 1" thin open tear towards foot of spine. Rubbing to boards and bumping to corners revealing boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Tear to paper along top half of front interior hinge revealing webbing. Light browning along margins. Else is clean and bright with. Binding is strong. Includes an excerpt from the yet unnamed "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce, as well as stories by Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, and many others. 354 pages. LIT/072426.