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Orthological Institute. First Edition; 1st Pressing. Phonograph Record. A 12" shellac 78rpm phonograph record, good+. The labels on each side of the record are of different sizes: Part I is 2 3/4" and Part II is 3 3/8" There is a lot of surface noise making the record difficult to hear. Joyce's voice sounds distant, Well-worn. ; 12" .

Cambridge, (England): The Orthological Institute/ (Made in England by Gramophone Co. Ltd.), 1929. First pressing. A fine copy of a scarce, fragile recording, in publisher's original (unprinted) brown wrapper. First pressing. Original Recording of James Joyce Reading 'Anna Livia Plurabelle' : Signed by Joyce. With inscribed slip by Joyce, to Jean [E. Mison], a freelance journalist based in Cambridge from approximately 1927 to 1964. Recorded by C. K. Ogden, the creator of Basic English, one of the editors of the first English translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and author, with I. A. Richards, of The Meaning of Meaning, among his other accomplishments, was also experimenting with the recording of poets and writers. He had already published a Basic English version of Anna Livia Plurabelle, which amused Joyce, and so Sylvia Beach arranged for a meeting and the recording. She said of the results: "how beautiful Joyce's rendering of an Irish washerwoman's brogue" (Beach, Sylvia,… Read More