Pulitzer Prize-winning William Saroyan always wrote about humanity on a human scale. He was one of the first American writers in this century to focus attention on immigrant communities. The protagonists in THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE are Armenian, Jewish, Chinese, Polish, African, or Irish. The collection was first published in 1934.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning William Saroyan always wrote about humanity on a human scale. He was one of the first American writers in this century to focus attention on immigrant communities. The protagonists in THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE are Armenian, Jewish, Chinese, Polish, African, or Irish. The collection was first published in 1934.
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Good. Ex-Library. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Cover scuffed with rubbed edges and tape binding with title and book number rubbed on spine. Pages browning and becoming brittle from age. Pricing inside front. Heavy library markings in book with card holder.
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Near Fine. Book Not ex-lib. hardcover in red cloth with black titles to spine and front (binding style 8), no jacket, 12mo. xv + 270pp. + series lists. Prefaces by Saroyan. VG+. Clean, very bright cloth; binding strong and square; light, uniform toning to clean, unmarked page; small star stamp over torchbearer figure mid ffep.
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Bill Prochnow. Signed by Author(s) First edition thus. Octavo. 8 colored woodblock illustrations and title page woodcut by Bill Prochnow; 1 b/w facsimile. Afterword ("Imperfect, Alive, and Deam-Filled: The Fervency of William Saroyan") by Herbert Gold; author's prefaces (to the first and second editions). Full chocolate brown linen, gilt stamped spine, gilt and blindstamped upper cover, tan endpapers, uncut. Fine. Publisher's slipcase. 194 pages. Number 149 of 220 copies (of which 200 were for sale), designed by James and Carolyn Robertson, printed by James Wehlage, and signed by Gold and Prochnow on limitation page.