Transition / Issue #25 / w Joan Miró, Cartier-Bresson, Dylan Thomas, Hugo Ball / Fall 1936

The Fall 1936 issue of the seminal avant garde literary journal Transition, edited by Eugene Jolas and published in New York.

Includes a cover by Joan Miró (one of the few issues with an illustrated cover) - Franz Kaka (Metamorphosis excerpt) - poetry by Dylan Thomas and Harry Brown - photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson and L. Moholy Nagy - art by Piet Mondrian, Brancusi and Paul Klee - fragments of a Dada diary by Hugo Ball - a musical score by Henry Cowell - and "inter-racial documents" by Gustavo Barros - among many others.

A magical piece of avant garde history.

216 pages. Four illustrated plates in black-and-white. 

Condition: A solid copy in fair condition with light creasing/rubbing/staining to the front cover and rubbing to the back. Binding is tight with some rust to the staples. A couple of dog-eared pages but the interior is essentially very good and clean. The multiple illustrated plates throughout are very good also.