PERIODICALS from Varennes Books

Henry Church Collection. Very good uncut copy in original green wraps with some faint discoloration to edges of cover and spine-of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife Barbara. The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française,… Read more about this item

Henry Church Collection. Very good copy in original green wraps with some sunning and discoloration to edges of cover and spine-of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara.The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French… Read more about this item

Henry Church Collection. Very good copy with some nicks to edges of original blue wraps of Quarterly financed by the American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara. The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French writer-poet Henri Michaux,… Read more about this item

Near fine copy in original red wrappers with some nicks to edge of p.185 slight edgewear to top and bottom corners of spine-of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara. The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle… Read more about this item

Near fine well-preserved copy in original blue wrap of Quarterly financed by American expatriate writer Henry Church and his wife, Barbara, who lived on an estate at Ville d'Avray.,The Journal was edited until the outbreak of World War II by an Editorial Committee which consisted of Henry Church, Jean Paulhan of the Nouvelle Revue Française, French writer-poet Henri Michaux, Italian… Read more about this item

Well-preserved rare copy of Twice a Year, Number Two, Spring Summer 1939, Biennial Journal published in 1939 by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by Proust, William Carlos Williams, John Marin, James Laughlin. Very little wear. Some fraying to corners of spine. Sunning to strip on top cover edge. binding tight. Interior immaculate. 247 pp.

Twice a Year, nO. 1, Fall-Winter 1938, Very well-preserved copy of Biennial Journal published by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by by Rilke, Bourne, Dreiser, Silone, Anais Nin, Olson and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.Shelfwear to corners of spine and cover. Binding tight. Immaculate interior.

Winter 1937 issue of Life and Letters Today (No. 10) with contributions from André Gide, Thomas Mann, William Empson, William Carlos Williams, H.D. Jean-Paul Sartre, Osbert Sitwell. Some edgewear to corners of spine, but very well preserved. Binding tight. Interior clean.

Life and Letters Today, Winter 1936-1937,International Monthly, Vol. XV, No.6, Very good, rubbed and chipped at extremities of binding, very little wear, binding tight, 248 pp. Contributors include Rilke, Rukeyser, Brecht, William Maxwell, C.J. Sisson, Gertrude Stein, Marya Zaturenska, Eisenstein.

Transition, Paris, 1928. 6.5"x9". No. 13. uncut copy of literary review in original transparent protective wraps, produced in Paris in the twenties. Transition was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists. Founded in 1927 by Paris-based poet Eugene Jolas, it was originally intended to serve as an outlet for experimental poetry, but gradually expanded… Read more about this item