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1928 · 149110 — Paris: Transition 1928. The summer 1928 issue of Transition number 13 containing James Joyce's ongoing piece “Continuation of a Work in Progress." Octavo original pictorial wrappers with the cover portrait by Picasso illustrated with black and white photographs throughout including Berenice Abbott's famed portrait of James Joyce. “Continuation of a Work in Progress" is an excerpt of Joyce's experimental novel that would later be published as Finnegans Wake 1939. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. In very good condition with loss to the spine. Cover by Pablo Picasso. Transition was a Paris-based modernist literary journal founded in 1927 by Eugene Jolas that became one of the most influential platforms for experimental writing in the interwar period. Dedicated to challenging traditional literary forms the magazine published work by leading figures such as James Joyce Gertrude Stein Samuel Beckett and Hart Crane often showcasing texts that pushed the boundaries of language and narrative. Its pages were especially important for serializing excerpts of Joyce’s Work in Progress later Finnegans Wake thereby introducing avant-garde readers to his evolving style. Transition unknown