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Satterfield,

World’s Best Books

, p. 122.

“We just said”

Cerf,

At Random

p. 65.

expensive limited editions

Ibid., p. 77.

carried Random House

Ibid., p. 78.

a million books

Satterfield,

World’s Best Books

p. 2.

for forty million

Cerf,

At Random

p. 62.

dominated the market

Satterfield,

World’s Best Books

pp. 2, 65–87.

“a collection of the most”

Modern Library catalogue, qtd. in Cerf,

At Random

p. 63.

College enrollment

Gerald Graff,

Professing Literature: An Institutional History

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), p. 59.

“Reading of Masterpieces”

Columbia University Bulletin of Information, 1920

–

1921

(Morningside Heights, N.Y.: Columbia University), p. 35.

“treat the

Iliad

”

John Erskine,

My Life as a Teacher

(Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1948), p. 166.

Masterpieces showed readers

and “

a comfortable chair”:

Erskine qtd. in Joan Shelley Rubin,

The Making of Middlebrow Culture

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), pp. 168–9.

inspired by a freshman course

Cerf,

At Random

p. 14.

tiny copy of

Romeo and Juliet

Satterfield,

World’s Best Books

, p. 17, and Dardis,

Firebrand

, p. 48.

they expanded the series

Dardis,

Firebrand

, p. 49, and Satterfield,

World’s Best Books

, p. 18.

million books a year

Satterfield,

World’s Best Books,

p. 17.

“Most of the books”

Modern Library catalogue, qtd. in Cerf,

At Random

p. 60.

“modern classics”

See, e.g.,

NYT Book Review

, April 25, 1937, p. 17, qtd. in Satterfield,

World’s Best Books

p. 53.

Knopf faced criminal charges

Dawn Sova,

Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds

(New York: Facts on File, 2011), pp. 108–9.

“You came here in a wagon”

Samuel Roth,

Count Me among the Missing

, pp. 265–72; (unpublished autobiography) Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8.

School Life in Paris

Ibid., Box 1 Folder 7, p. 177.

ripped off everyone

Leo Hamalian, “Nobody Knows My Names: Samuel Roth and the Underside of American Letters,”

Journal of Modern Literature

3 (1974), pp. 908, 914.

Wanna Go Home, Baby?

Jay Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest: Samuel Roth’s ‘Unauthorized’

Ulysses

and the 1927 International Protest,”

Joyce Studies Annual

2009 (2009), p. 51.

“a portrait of the metamorphoses”

Roth,

Count Me among the Missing

, Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8.

five different prisons

Roth,

Count Me among the Missing

, p. 297. Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8.

a small bookshop

Samuel Roth to Joseph Roth, March 27, 1919, Roth Papers, Box 37 Folder 10.

basement with a window

Roth,

Count Me among the Missing

, p. 128. Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 10.

Roth visited the old man’s shop

and

he made $130:

Ibid., Box 1 Folder 7, pp. 176–9; Box 2 Folder 1, p. 161.

Two Worlds Quarterly

and

Beau

: Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest,” p. 39. In text, I use

Two Worlds

to refer to the monthly magazine, not the quaterly.

Lewis Carroll

TWQ

2, no. 5 (Sept. 1926).

Boccaccio

Ibid., no. 8 (June 1927).

Chekhov

Ibid., no. 2 (Dec. 1925).

Waugh

Ibid., no. 5 (Sept. 1926).

cartoonish drawings

E.g., ibid., no. 8 (June 1927).

three to five dollars

Roth Papers, Box 1, Folder 8. (Chapter 12).

first men’s magazine

and

finance

Beau

for a year:

Roth,

Count Me among the Missing,

pp. 264–66. Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8.

“Mr. Roth Is Building”

Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest” p. 61 (fn. 23).

Post Office inspectors arrested

and

Four months after Roth’s trial:

Ibid.

“Among other things”

Roth to JJ, May 10, 1922, SBP, Box 129 Folder 3.

“Every issue will contain”

Two Worlds

letterhead qtd. from Yale Pound, Box 49 Folder 1942.

politely declined

Weaver to Roth, June 8, 1922, Roth Papers, Box 38 Folder 12.

“the size of a needle’s head”

Weaver to SB, July 22, 1922, SBP, Box 35 Folder 18.

wrote to Ezra

Robert Spoo,

Without Copyrights: Privacy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 172–3

Pound burst forth

EP to Roth, July 4, 1922, Roth Papers, Box 36 Folder 31.

check and four promissory notes

Spoo,

Without Copyrights

, pp. 200–2.

fifty dollars per issue

and

“Make it as long”:

Roth to EP, Nov. 19, 1925, Box 45 Folder 1942, Yale Pound Papers.

“the grey sunken crater”

Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest,” pp. 53–54.

tried to persuade John Sumner

Adelaide Roth, Roth Papers, Box 16 Folder 5.

Roth met with Hemingway

Roth,

Count Me among the Missing,

Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8.

eight thousand subscribers

and

fifty thousand:

Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest,” p. 45.

Quinn told everyone

See, e.g., JQ to SB, Feb. 4, 1922, NYPL.

portions of a magazine

and

American-manufacutred plates:

Spoo,

Without Copyrights,

pp. 67–9, 97–103, 156–60. Spoo clarifies that obscenity itself did not invalidate copyright.

“organize a gang”

EP to JJ, Nov. 19, 1926,

EP/JJ

, p. 225.

$500,000 lawsuit

“Sylvia Beach Sues Mr. Roth for $500,000,”

Chicago Tribune

(Paris Edition), March 27, 1927 in Yale Joyce, Box 18 Folder 333.

an injunction preventing

Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest,” p. 40.

a formal protest

, p. 182.

nine hundred publications

Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest,” p. 51.

“The thought of such an outrageous”

Roscoe Ashworth to JJ, May 16, 1927, SBP, Box 129 Folder 2.

“If you are”

Arthur Doyle to Roth, (n.d.), Roth Papers, Box 35 Folder 17.

“a forceful advisory capacity”

Roth,

Count Me among the Missing

, p. 264, Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8.

ten bricks wide

and

toilet:

Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8.

“My lovely and valiant”

Samuel Roth to Richard and Adelaide Roth, Nov. 2, 1928, Roth Papers, Box 36 Folder 33.

“learn to love them”

Samuel Roth to Richard Roth, Nov. 15, 1928, Roth Papers, Box 36 Folder 33.

sleeping in parks

Hamalian, “Nobody Knows My Names,” p. 890.

a girl named Anna

Roth,

Count Me among the Missing,

p. 204, Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 10, pp. 113–4.

First Offering

and

made him happy:

Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8, p. 297.

acquainted with

Gertzman, “Not Quite Honest,” p. 35.

“nut poet”

and

“either a fool or a wild man”:

JQ to Weaver, July 22, 1922, NYPL.

rejection letters

Roth Papers, Box 35 Folder 17.

“Of all the writers”

Roth to JJ, Feb. 12, 1921, Buffalo, Series XI.

“DIJON.—DARANTIERE”

My discussion of the physical details from a comparison of the 1927 Shakespeare and Company edition and Samuel Roth’s pirated edition at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. See also “Edition of ‘Ulysses’ to End Pirating Is Copy of Pirated Book,” Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 321, unidentified newspaper clipping.

Loewinger Brothers

See John Slocum and Herbert Cahoon,

A Bibliography of James Joyce

(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953).

“Sylvia Bitch”

Adelaide Roth,

In a Plain Brown Wrapper

(unpublished), Roth Papers, Box 16 Folder 2, p. 28.

Roth’s perspective

Roth,

Count Me Among the Missing

, Roth Papers, Box 1 Folder 8, pp. 297, 299.