The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories

Covers010Title:

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories

Date:

October 15, 1934

Art Credits:

Cover designed by Ernest Reichl

 

Contents:

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

Seventy Thousand Assyrians

DaringYoungMan 360Among 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

Covers010The 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

TheDaringYoungMan Zephyr 002The Shepherd's Daughter

 

Notes:

The book is dedicated to Whit Burnett and Martha Foley. Burnett and Foley, married at the time, were the founders of Story Magazine, which first published the story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories was Saroyan's first book. it was named after his story "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" that ran in Story Magazine in February, 1934. 

The book became a best-seller, establishing Saroyan as a rising star. 

Review by the St. Louis Star and Times: "He expresses, in compressed, simple but eloquent language, the psychology of being without a sob; the business of growIng up; the sensitiveness of a young man who is thoroughly alive."

Modern Age Books edition typography by Robert Josephy

 

Additional Materials

 

Holdings:

Cover519The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1934, Random House, includes original dust jacket, B4

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1934, Random House, Signed by Saroyan, Former Alameda State College Library copy, B5

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1934, Random House, second printing, B6

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1937, Modern Age Books, B11

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1937, Modern Age Books, B12

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1937, Modern Age Books, B13

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1937, Modern Age Books, B15

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories 1937, Modern Age Books, B16

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1935, Faber & Faber, UK, B18

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1937, Faber & Faber, UK, second printing, B19

TheDaringYoungMan Zephyr 004The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1939, Penguin Books, B20

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1935, Faber & Faber, UK, include original dust jacket, B708

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1941, Modern Library, includes original dust jacket, B709

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories, 1946, Faber & Faber, UK, Proof copy of second printing, includes original dust jacket, B710

Jeune Homme au Trapeze Volant (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories), 1946, Sagittaire, France, Translated into French, B597

Den dristage unge Mand I den flyvende Trapez (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories), 1946, Levende Litteratur (Achehoug Dansk Forlag), Denmark, translated into Danish, B598

Elat Revido Muchacho Del Trapecio (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories), 1956, El Libro del Mes, Spain, Translated into Spanish, B601

Cover520Der Waghalsige junge Mann auf dem fliegenden Trapez (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories), 1948, Dr. Walter Barbier Verlag, Germany, Translated into German, B599

Chlopiec Na Lotynm Trapezie (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories), 1968, Ksiqkzka I Wiedza, Poland, translated into Polish, B605

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