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The daring young man on the flying trapeze and other stories / by William Saroyan.
Van Pelt Library PS3537.A826 D3 1934 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 270 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- New York : Manufactured in the U. S. A. by H. Wolff.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 1934.
- Contents:
- Preface to the first edition
- The daring young man on the flying trapeze
- Seventy thousand Assyrians
- Among the lost
- Myself upon the earth
- Love, death, sacrifice and so forth
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- And man
- A curved line
- Snake
- Big valley vineyard
- Aspirin is a member of the NRA
- Seventeen
- A cold day
- The earth, day, night, self
- Harry
- Laughter
- The big tree coming
- Dear Greta Garbo
- The man with the french post cards
- Three stories
- Love
- War
- Sleep in unheavenly peace
- Fight your own war
- Common prayer
- The shepherd's daughter.
- Notes:
- The author's first collection of stories.
- With half-title.
- Title printed within a brown oval inside a decorative border.
- "First Edition."
- "Some of the stories in this volume have appeared in Story, The American Mercury, and The magazine"--Verso of t.p.
- "Design: Ernst Reichl."
- Oatmeal cloth binding with black spine; gilt wrap-around title strip lettered in black on front cover and spine.
- Cited in:
- Kheridian, D. Saroyan, 1.
- OCLC:
- 722058
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