By the time Sylvia Beach relinquished her rights in Ulysses in 1930 she had published almost 30,000 copies. A new European edition was published by the Odyssey Press in 1933, edited by Joyce’s friend Stuart Gilbert. In the US, Samuel Roth, an American publisher of pornography, managed to evade the ban of Ulysses and produced a pirated edition of the book. This provided an impetus to get the ban in the US lifted, and in December 1933 Judge John Woolsey declared that Ulysses was not obscene and that it could be published in the United States. Random House brought out the first authorised edition just fifty days later in January 1934, and in three months they’d sold more than 30,000 copies. The first edition published in England followed in October 1936. Efforts to correct the text continued with a new edition of Ulysses published in 1984, edited by Hans Walter Gabler who claimed to have corrected five thousand mistakes that had existed in previous editions.
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