THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE - INSCRIBED TO VALENTI ANGELO
by William Saroyan, Ernst Reichl, stories, design
$1,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Signed
New York: Random House, 1934. First American Edition. Saroyan's first book, a collection of 26 short stories produced in small numbers. An important copy, showing a young Saroyan's early admiration for Valenti Angelo, the renown Italian-American illustrator and printmaker. Their friendship would evolve, and the two would ultimately collaborate on at least two different projects - 'The Fiscal Hoboes' 1949 and 'The Simple
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