Inhale & Exhale (1936)
Date:
February 19, 1936
Art Credits:
Cover designed by Ernest Reichl
Night sky photograph reproduced courtesy of Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California.
Notes:
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.
First edition - 4,400 copies
Dedication: To the English Tongue, the American earth, and the Armenian Spirit.
Selections translated and published in Spanish, German, Japanese, and French.
Includes the stories:
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
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
Addition Materials:
Further Information:
Saroyan by Design - Inhale & Exhale
In the Forever Saroyan Collection:
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, includes original dust jacket, B26
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, signed by Saroyan, includes original dust jacket, B27
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, B28
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, B29
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, includes original dust jacket, B30
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, inscribed to Samuel French Morse, includes original dust jacket, B31
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, inscribed to Dr. Harold E. Fraser, includes original dust jacket, B32
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Random House, inscribed to Ted Lilienthal, includes original dust jacket, B33
Inhale And Exhale, 1976, Books for Libraries, Saroyan's personal copy, includes Saroyan drawing inside back cover, B34
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Faber & Faber, UK, inscribed by Saroyan to Khatchik (Archie) Minasian, includes original dust jacket, B35
Inhale And Exhale, 1936, Faber & Faber, UK, includes original dust jacket, B36