The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories

New York: Random House, 1934.

Price: $650.00

Hardcover. First edition. Boards moderately soiled and foxed, else a nice, very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. The author's first book, a collection of stories. Inscribed by Saroyan in the year of publication to the theatrical producer, author, and publisher of fine books, Crosby Gaige: "To Crosby Gaige with the good wishes of William Saroyan. December 1934."

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Item #86623 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories. William SAROYAN.

William Saroyan
birth name: William Saroyan
born: 8/31/1908
died: 5/18/1981

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Biography

American writer who made his initial impact during the Great Depression with a deluge of brash, original, and irreverent stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty, hunger, and insecurity. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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