Little Children (1937)

Date:

August 12, 1937

Art Credits:

Typography by Robert Josephy

Notes:

First edition - 1,500 copies.

Little Children received mixed reviews, though stories like 

Published in the UK by Faber & Faber in 1937

 Dedication: To that world and that time. 

 

Includes the stories: 

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

 

Additional Materials:

 

 

In the Forever Saroyan Collection: 

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, includes original dust jacket, B49

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, inscribed to Virgil R.D. Kirkham, includes original dust jacket, B50

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, inscribed by Saroyan, includes original dust jacket, B51

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, inscribed by Saroyan, B52

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, inscribed by Saroyan, includes original dust jacket, B53

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, An unprinted publisher's dummy, includes original dust jacket, B54

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, pre=release review copy, includes original dust jacket, B55

 Little Children, 1936, Harcourt, Brace and Company, inscribed to Louis Henry Cohn, includes original dust jacket, B56