Four issues of the influential experimental literary journal that featured Surrealist, Expressionist, and Dada art and artists, including literary, visual and musical contributions. Issues 24 and 25 with toning and moderate soiling to covers, some wear to edges, but overall fine; Issue 26 with more significant wear around edges and tears and separation along upper and lower spine; Issue 27 with chipping around the edges, toning and small stains to front and rear, spine paper torn and separating at head, with separation from front wrapper (still firmly attached, however); otherwise, all issues generally clean throughout. 

Transition was founded in 1927 by poet Eugene Jolas and his wife Maria McDonald and published in Paris, running until spring 1938, with a total of 27 issues produced. "Transition was the most important of the American expatriate 'little' magazines.  For Americans at home, and many English intellectuals as well, it came to stand for all that was new in contemporary writing...In part, Jolas considered Transition a 'documentary organ' dedicated to presenting what he referred to later as 'pan-romanticism.' Not only was it to publish the authors directly involved in its own revolutionary programme, but also to present similar movements which had preceded it and were contemporary with it. It was in this respect that works of the surrealists, dadaists, and German expressionist appeared." (Dougald McMillan, "Transition 1927-38: The History of a Literary Era"). Included issues as follows:

No. 24 - June, 1936: Front cover design by Leger and sections VERTIGRAL: James Agee, Samuel Beckett, Richard Eberhart, Eugene Jolas etc.; PARAMYTHS: Wayne Andrews, Fernand Auberjonois, Georges Pelorson, Eugene Jolas, George Whitsett; THE EYE: Images by James Johnson Sweeney, Hans Arp, Alexander Calder , Alberto Giacometti, F. Léger, Kasimir Malevich, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters etc. ; THE EAR:  Ionisation, two pages from score, 1933 / Edgar Varèse ; CINEMA: Mack Sennett, Walt Disney, Charles Chaplin; DOCUMENTS : Eugene Jolas, Peyote songs / Martha Champion Huot, Georges Roualt, Léon Bloy etc. ; ARCHITECTURE: Project for a surgical clinic on the Suez Canal, ground floor plan, second floor plan, isometric view, maquette view as from south-east / Paul Nelson.

No. 25 -  Fall, 1936: Front cover design by Miro and sections VERTIGRAL: Harry Brown, Dennis Devlin, Pierre Guegen, Eugene Jolas, Norman McCraig, Alfonso Reyes, J. L. Sweeney, Dylan Thomas, Charles Tracey and Oliver Wells; PARAMYTHS: Dylan Thomas: The Mouse and the Woman; the first part of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis; Thomas Newman and Christopher Young; THE EYE: Images by Piet Mondrian, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Cesar Domela, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse; DADA 1916-1936: Hugo Ball's Fragments of a DaDa Diary and Richard Huelsenbeck's DaDa Lives; Photos by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Francis Bruguiere, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Matthew Brady and others; Painting and Reality:a discussion between Aragon, Fernand Leger and Le Corbusier; INTER-RACIAL DOCUMENTS: Gustavo Barroso, etc.; THE EAR: Scherzo: an unpublished score by Henry Cowell; CINEMA: Redes by Paul Strand; VERTIGRAL WORKSHOP: Sound Poems by Hugo Ball, etc.; ARCHITECTURE: Siegfried Giedion and R. Maillart.

No. 26 - 1937: Front cover design by Marcel Duchamp reproducing the Readymade "Comb" and works: VERSE: "In Memory of My Father," by James Agee; "Resurgent," by Forrest Anderson; "The Skeleton of the Day," by Hans Arp; "Le Pont Brisé," by Paul Eluard; "Two Poems," by Randall Jarrell; "Planetarische Reise," by Eugene Jolas; "Chêne et Chien," by Raymond Queneau; "Anonyme," by André de Richaud; "Lover as Fox," by Muriel Rukeyser; "Cactus Gardens," by Sanders Russell; "Séparation," by Camille Schuwer; PROSE: "work in Progress. Opening pages, Part II, Section III," by James Joyce; "Metamorphosis," by Franz Kafka; "Wanderer," by Michael Stuart; THE EAR: "Gyp's Song from 'The Second Hurricane,' by Aaron Copland with lyrics by Edwin Denby; THE EYE: "The Bridge of Avignon, 1936" a drawing by Man Ray; "Three Photographers," featuring Man Ray, Brassaï, and Edward Weston; "Apropros of Colour," by Fernand Léger; "The Unconscious in Art," by André Lhote; "Ancestors II, 1935" and ink drawing by Grace Pailthorpe; "Plant Tendrils," photo by Karl Blossfeldt; "Eight Painters," featuring Josef Albers, Alberto Magnelli, Joan Miró, Jean Hélion, Hans Hartung, John Piper, Wolgang Paalen, and Wassily Kandinsky; "An Academy for the Study of Light," by László Moholy-Nagy; "Three Notes, Compostition, Black, White and Red, 1936," by Piet Mondrian; "Four Sculptors," featuring Julio González, Nahum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore; CINEMA: "Style and Medium in the Moving Pictures," by Erwin Panofsky; "Cuttings from a film 'English Zoo Architecture,'" by László Moholy-Nagy; THE THEATRE: "OO to AH, a stage playlet in two scenes," by Charles Tracy; "Settings and Constumes for Charles Tracy's 'OO to AH,'" by Alexander Calder; WORKSHOP: "The Subliminal Tongue," by Stuart Gilbert; "The Third Eye: Ascension to the Tremendum - Chimera - Words from Sleep and Half-Sleep - America Mystica," by Georges Pelorson; "Cynghanedd Cymry," by Keidrych Rhys; INTER-RACIAl: uncredited art from Gabon, Australia, Mexico, New Guinea, and Easter Island; "A Visit to the Witch of Darkness," by Wendell Bennett; "Birth of a Fable," by Leo Frobenius; "Song in front of the unfleshed bones," by Frans M. Olbrechts; ARCHITECTURE: "Construction - Dead and Alive," by J.M. Richards.

No. 27 - April-May, 1938 (Tenth Anniversary): Front cover design by Kandinsky and sections NIGHT, MYTH, LANGUAGE; THE EAR; THE EYE; COMMENTARIES; ENTER-RACIAL, with contributions of  Hans Arp, Jacques Barzun, Samuel Beckett, Kay Boyle, Andre Breton, Eugene Jolas, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Anais Nin, William Saroyan, Le Corbusier, Henry Miller, Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, Martha Champion Huot,  etc.