Ulysses by James Joyce
First American Edition, Third Printing.
Random House, New York, 1934
The 1934 American Random House edition of Ulysses by James Joyce.
Ulysses was banned in the USA after the prosecution for obscenity against The Little Review (the American magazine which published the novel in chapters in 1918-1920), and the seizing and destruction of the 2nd London edition by the USPS in October 1922.
On 12.06.1933 US District Judge John Woolsey ruled that Ulysses was an artistic, rather than pornographic, work, and therefore could not be declared obscene. Random House and lawyer Morris Ernst intentionally imported the French edition, for it to be seized by customs, therefore causing a lawsuit to dispute in court the allegation of obscenity. Supported by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1934, this edition was published in 1934.
The preface provides detailed information on this landmark decision.

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