O tell me all about Anna Livia! Here we have the first publication of the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of what would be called, six years later, Finnegans Wake, but at the time was called Work In Progress. Published in London in 1933, it was one of several pamphlets Faber would publish for James Joyce as an outlet for him to release parts of the big novel that took the last 17 years of his working life.

This was perhaps the most famous of the Work In Progress excerpts that would appear, and this particular copy has the additional feature of an advertisement placed inside for the 78 RPM record of Joyce himself reading the final portion of this very pamphlet. The price is given as one guinea, and two addresses included for where in London one can buy the disc. (These discs are now hardly ever available for any amount under $500...but if you'd like to listen to SIde One, the internet will kindly oblige you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8E1WVyuhg&ab_channel=oobleckboy )

You can read along with this pamphlet!