Word: cerf
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Customs started the case in May, 1932 when it seized an unexpurgated copy sent to Publisher Bennett A. Cerf from Paris. Last fortnight there was a hearing in the small elegantly informal courtroom of the Bar Association Building. Publisher Cerf's lawyer, Morris Ernst, who makes a specialty of fighting censorship cases, contended that he had yet to find a single instance which proved that reading any book had led to the commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds...
...Margaret Anderson indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly to U. S. tourists to snuggle home. Immediate results of last week's decision were two. Publisher Cerf's Random House announced a forthcoming unabridged edition of Ulysses ($3.50) for general sale. In Paris, where he was waiting for another operation on his right eye, Author Joyce said he was "pleased with the judgment," hoped to get some much needed cash out of the U. S. edition...
...Tariff Act, one copy of James Joyce's famed stream-of-consciousness novel Ulysses. Banned since its Paris publication in 1922, many a bootlegged Ulysses has been sold in the U. S. for $15 to $50. Its admission was preliminary to a suit by which Bennett Cerf hopes to legalize its U. S. publication...