Dear Baby (1944)

Date:

November 9, 1944

Art Credits:

Front cover by G.K. Lander

Notes:

UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1945

Released as an Armed Services Edition in March 1945

Dedication: This book is for CAROL SAROYAN. 

 

Includes the stories: 

Dear Baby

The Hummingbird that Lived Through the WInter

The Stolen Bicycle

Knife-like, Flower-like, Like Nothing at All in the World

The Dream

A Time of Genius

The Story of The Young Man and The Mouse

The Struggle of Jim Patros with Death

Sailing Down the Chesapeake

I Know You Good

My Witness Witnesseth

The Flashlight

How it is to be

Mr. Fleming and the Seven Wonders of the World

Passengers to Europe

The Declaration of War

Highway America

My Home, My Home

The Grapes

The Faraway Night

 

Additional Materials:

 

In the Forever Saroyan collection: 

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, inscribed to Ruthie from Sidney and Lister, B236

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, second printing, B237

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, B238

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, includes original dust jacket, B239

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, includes original dust jacket, B240

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, includes original dust jacket, B241

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, includes original dust jacket, B242

Dear Baby, 1945, Harcourt Brace, second edition, includes original dust jacket, B243

Dear Baby, 1944, Harcourt Brace, likely second edition, includes original dust jacket, B244

Dear Baby, 1945, Armed Services edition, B245

Dear Baby, 1945, Armed Services edition,  B246

Dear Baby, 1945, Armed Services edition, B247

Dear Baby, 1966, Faber & Faber, UK, Paper-covered edition, B248

Dear Baby, 1945, Faber & Faber, UK, includes original dust jacket, inscriber to Molly from Boyd, B249

Dear Baby, 1945, Faber & Faber, UK, includes original dust jacket, B250

Dear Baby, 1945, Faber & Faber, UK, includes original dust jacket, B251

Dear Baby, 1945, Faber & Faber, UK, includes original dust jacket, B252

Dear Baby, 1945, Faber & Faber, UK, B253

Dear Baby, 1945, Faber & Faber, UK, includes original dust jacket, B698