JOYCE, James (1882–1941). Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934.

8vo. Original red and black stamped cream cloth over beveled boards, red top edge (spine gently sunned, few minor spots of discoloration on lower cover, front joint cracked at title–page); original red and black printed dust jacket (spine panel sunned, few very tiny chips at extreme ends); custom folding box.

FIRST AUTHORIZED AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with “Reichl” credit on front panel. On 6 December 1933, the ban on Ulysses in the United States was lifted and Random House published the present edition roughly a month later. In this publication, Random House included a forward by the attorney who argued the case against the ban for the publishing house, Morris Ernst, as well as the full text of Judge Woolsey’s decision. Woolsey rejected the claims of obscenity and that “a book must be judged not from reading select passages but as a result of the whole book… a decision that admitted the novel into the United States” (100 Banned Books, p. 327–330). Slocum and Calhoun A21.