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JOYCE (JAMES) Anna Livia Plurabelle, 12-inch gramophone recording, [1929]; and 2 others (3)
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JOYCE (JAMES)
Anna Livia Plurabelle, 12-inch 78 rpm gramophone record, white labels printed in green, printed sleeve with tears at edges [Slocum & Cahoon, p.173], The Gramophone Company, Hayes, for the Orthological Institute, 10 King's Parade, Cambridge, [1929]; idem, Criterion Miscellany No. 15, first English edition, with the 3 loosely inserted prospectuses listed in Slocum & Cahoon (including one for the record), variant binding of cinnamon stiff wrappers printed in red [Slocum & Cahoon A33, note], 8vo, Faber & Faber, 1930; Pomes Penyeach, FIRST EDITION, errata slip at end, publisher's pale green boards, upper cover faded along outer edge, preserved in cloth portfolio [Slocum & Cahoon A24], 16mo, Paris, Shakespeare & Co., 1927 (3)
Footnotes
FIRST PRESSING OF JOYCE'S ONLY RECORDING FROM FINNEGANS WAKE: "How beautiful the 'Anna Livia' recording is, and how amusing Joyce's rendering of an Irish washerwoman's brogue!" (Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, 1956). The disk was recorded by C.K. Ogden, the inventor of Basic English, with Joyce reading the eight and a half minute passage mostly from memory as his eyesight was struggling under the poor studio lighting. Demand led to subsequent pressings by His Master's Voice and two North American booksellers.





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