Accession number
PML 197880
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
Paris : Shakespeare and Company, 12 rue de l'Odéon, [1924]
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
Title and imprint information printed on white record label.
Slocum & Cahoon mistakenly date the recording to 1926. Cf. Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 170-171.
First pressing: 1 of only 20 copies, according to auction house description note laid in.
"The recording had been organised by Sylvia Beach who approached Piero Coppola, artistic director of His Master's Voice in Paris, to ask about it. Coppola agreed to make the recording but said it would have to be paid for in full by Beach, and it wouldn't have the 'His Master's Voice' label on it or appear in their catalogue."
Slocum & Cahoon mistakenly date the recording to 1926. Cf. Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 170-171.
First pressing: 1 of only 20 copies, according to auction house description note laid in.
"The recording had been organised by Sylvia Beach who approached Piero Coppola, artistic director of His Master's Voice in Paris, to ask about it. Coppola agreed to make the recording but said it would have to be paid for in full by Beach, and it wouldn't have the 'His Master's Voice' label on it or appear in their catalogue."
Description
1 audio disc : 78 rpm ; 12 inch
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the author in black ink on record label: James Joyce / Paris, / 27 November 1924.
Provenance
William Ambrose Bissell (his bookplate); Sotheby's 11 June 2013, lot 208; The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Summary
A one-sided 4-minute recording of Joyce reading John F Taylor's speech from the 'Aeolus' episode of Ulysses (pp, 136-7 in the 1922 French edition).
Binding
Housed in white paper sleeve in quarter brown leather chemise, with the author's name stamped on spine, in matching pinkish-brown cloth slipcase.
Classification
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