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    • JOYCE READING ULYSSES AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK

    Joyce, James Ulysses (pp. 136-137). Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924.

    Joyce, James
    Ulysses (pp. 136-137). Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $43,750.

    Joyce, James Anna Livia Plurabelle Part I from "Work In Progress." Cambridge: The Orthological Institute, [ca. 1929.

    Joyce, James
    Anna Livia Plurabelle Part I from “Work In Progress.” Cambridge: The Orthological Institute, [ca. 1929.). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $5,000.

    A 1924 recording of James Joyce reading Ulysses is a feature lot at Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana sale in New York on June 11.  The 12″ single sided 78 rpm recording is complete with a printed white paper label signed and dated by Joyce and dated Paris, November 27, 1924.  It is estimated at $15,000-20,000.

    A second lot features Joyce reading Anna Livia Plurabelle Part I from “Work in Progress” Cambridge: The Orthological Institute c1929.  It contains a typed and autographed label pasted over His Master’s Voice pictorial label.  Further highlights of the sale include rare dust-jacketed copies of F Scott Fitzgerald’s first two books and a copy of The Great Gatsby with the author’s notes transcribed. (Click on either image to enlarge it).

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