The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories

October 15, 1934

Cover designed by Ernest Reichl

Saroyan's first book. 

Includes -

• 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 N.R.A.
• 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

Translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Polish, and Spanish. 

Inhale & Exhale

February 19, 1936

Cover designed by Ernest Reichl

Night sky photograph reproduced courtesy of Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California. 

First edition - 4,400 copies

UK edition published by Faber & Faber that included 1/2 of the stories+ in the US edition as Inhale and Exhale, and the rest as The Gay & Melancholy Flux.

Selections translated and published in Spanish, German, Japanese, and French.

Includes

• Resurrection of a Life
• Five Ripe Pears
• The World & the Theatre
• Laura, Immortal
• The Oranges
• Morning
• The Younger Brother
• London, Ah, London
• The Living Multitude
• The Gay & Melancholy Flux
• Two Days Wasted in Kansas City  
• International Harvester
• The Bridge
• Going Home
• A Night of Nothing
• The Drinkers
• The Horses & the Sea
• World Wilderness of Time Lost
• The Broken Wheel
• The War
• The Death of Children
• Daily News
• Our Friends the Mice
• The Symphony
• Raisins
• The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger
• Yea & Amen
• Solo for Tin Gazoo
• Prelude to an American Symphony
• How Pleasant to Have Passed Through Buffalo
• The Drunkard
• My Picture in the Paper
• Nine Million Years Ago
• Memoirs of a Veteran Actor
• A Tipped Hat to the Lamp Post
• With a Hey Nonny Nonny
• I Can't Put Two & Two Together
• Secrets in Alexandria
• Hunger Laughing
• The Mother
• Panorama Unmerciful
• The Great Unwritten American Novel
• Antranik of Armenia
• Six Hundred and Sixty-Six
• The lnternatiohal Song of the Machine Gun
• Taxi to Laughter & Life Unending
• Poem, Story, Novel
• The Revolution
• Little Miss Universe
• Solemn Advice to a Young Man About to Accept Undertaking as a Profession
• Two Thousand Four Hundred and Some Odd Dollars for Kindness
• An Occurrence at Izzy's
• Our Little Brown Brothers the Filipinos
• The Japanese Are Coming
• Ah-ha
• At Sundown  
• Christians Singing
• Rain
• A Christmas Carol
• Psalms
• A Note on Travel
• The Dark Sea
• Malenka Manon
• The Proletarian at the Trap Drum
• The Black Tartars
• The Egg
• The Little Dog Laughed to See Such Sport
• Train Going
• The Whistle
• Finlandia
• The Armenian & the Armenian

Three Times Three

December 10, 1936

Printed by Page Printers

This was the first book published by The Conference Press

Includes

• The Man with the Heart in the Highlands
• The Question
• The Living and the Dead
• Summertime
• Public Speech
• Life and Letters
• Baby
• The Beggars
• Quarter, Half, Three-quarter, and Whole Notes

Published in the UK by Faber & Faber as a part of The Gay and Melancholy Flux. 

Little Children

August 12, 1937

Typography by Robert Josephy

First edition - 1,500 copies.

Published in the UK by Faber & Faber in 1937

Includes

• Laughing Sam
• The Sunday Zeppelin
• Corduroy Pants
• The Coldest Winter since 1854
• O Higher Accountancy, O Traffic Management
• The Only Guy in Town
• The First Day of School
• The Man Who Got Fat
• Around the World with General Grant
• The Messenger
• Many Miles Per Hour
• The World's Champion Elevator Operator
• My Uncle and The Mexicans
• Countrymen, How Do You Like America?
• The Crusader
• The Cat
• Where I Come From People Are Polite

The Gay and Melancholy Flux

1937

Originally published by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom. 

 Includes

• The World and the Theatre
• Laura, Immortal
• Morning
• Life
• The Gay and Melancholy Flux
• Home
• World Wilderness of Time Lost
• Solo for Tin Gazoo
• Prelude to an American Symphony
• How pleasant to have passed through Buffalo
• The Drunkard
• My Picture in the Paper
• Nine Million Years Ago
• Memoirs of a Veteran Actor
• A Tipper Hat to the Lamp Post
• I Can't Put Two and Two Together
• Love
• Hunger
• Panorama Unmerciful
• The Great Unwritten American Novel
• Ben
• Taxi to Laughter and Life Unending
• As of the Sun
• Ah-ha
• At Sundown
• Christians Singing
• Rain
• Psalms
• The Train
• The Whistle
• The Man with the Heart in the Highlands
• The Question
• The Living and the Dead
• Summertime
• Public Speech
• Life and Letters
• Baby
• The Beggars
• Quarter, Half, Three-quarter, and Whole Notes

Love Here is My Hat

March 14, 1938

Illustrations by John Groth

Typography by Robert Josephy

Published in teh UK by Faber & Faber in 1938.

Includes

• Love, Here is My Hat
• Ever Fall in Love with a Midget?
• The Trains
• One of the Least Famous of the Great Love Affairs of History
• The La Salle Hotel in Chicago
• Gus the Gambler
• Saturday Night
• Coffee and Sandwiches at Louie's on Pacific Street
• Ah Life, Ah Death, Ah Music, Ah France, Ah Everything
• Three, Four, Shut the Door
• For My Part I'll Smoke a Good Ten Cent Cigar
• The Genius
• A Lady Named Caroline
• The Fire
• You're Breaking My Heart
• The Filipino and The Drunkard
• Jim Pemberton and His Boy Trigger
• War and Peace
• The Poor Heart
• A Family of Three / The Child... The Man ... The Woman
• Am I Your World?

A Native American

October, 1938

Linoleum cuts by Lloyd Hoff

First edition - 450 copies. 

Includes

• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
• The Journey to Hanford
• One of Our Future Poets, You Might Say.
• The Pomegranate Trees
• The Circus
• Locomotive 38, The Ojibway
• A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance, with Love Lyrics, And Everything
• The Fifty-Yard Dash

The Trouble with Tigers

November 10, 1938

Typography by Robert Josephy

UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1939

Includes

• The Tiger
• Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart
• The Brothers and the Sisters
• Another Summer,
• The Way To Be Alive
• I Could Say Bella Bella
• The Nurse, the Angel, the Daughter of the Gambler
• O.K., Baby, This Is the
  World
• It's Not as if We Don't Appreciate Your Kindness
• The Brokenhearted Comedian and the Girl Who Took
  the Place of His Unfaithful Wife
• On Malibu Bay
• A Scenario for Karl Marx
• The Legend Makers
• The Ants
• The Great Leapfrog Contest
• A Talk with Father
• The Acrobats
• Citizens of the Third Grade
• The People, Yes and Then Again No
• Everything
• Woof Woof
• A Prayer for the Living
• Little Old New York
• The World
• A Letter to the Old City Editor
• A Clear Warm Day
• Memories of Paris
• The Job
• Some Day I'll Be a Millionaire Myself
• The Vision
• The Dale Carnegie Friend
• Anything for a Laugh
• A Nice Boy, Even if He Is Rich
• The Pool Game
• We Want a Touchdown

Peace, It's Wonderful

April 17, 1939

UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1940

Includes

• The Greatest Country in the World
• The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant, and the Potted Plant
• The Year of Heaven
• The Europa
• Club
• 1924 Cadillac for Sale
• The Love-Kick
• Little
• Moral Tales from the Old Country
• The Warm, Quiet Valley of Home
• A Number of the Poor
• The Monumental Arena
• Peace, It's Wonderful
• Piano
• The Mouse
• The Adventures of a Young Man Some Day To Be Another Jack London
• Romance
• At the Chop Suey Joint on Larkin Street at Two Thirty in the Morning
• Ohio
• The War in Spain
• Comedy Is Where You Die and They Don't Bury You Because You Can Still Walk
• Noonday Dark Enfolding Texas
• Johnny the Dreamer, Mary the Model at Magnin's and Plato the Democrat
• The Best and Worst People and Things of 1938
• What We Want Is Love and Money
• The Sweet Singer of Omsk
• The Same as Twenty Years Ago
• The Russian Writer
• The Journey and the Dream
• A note by the American Federation of Labor declaring the book was printed in union shops.

My Heart's in the Highlands

June 8, 1939

Typography by Robert Josephy

Includes

• Preface by Harold Clurman, Director of the Groupp Theatre
• The People, The Place, The Time
• My Heart's in the Highlands (Play)
• The Man with the Heart in the Highlands