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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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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 Sa748 934d
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
Contributor:
Reichl, Ernst, 1900-1980, book designer.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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