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SAROYAN, WILLIAM The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. New York Random House, 1934. First edition, inscribed by the author to Grace Stone Coates. Publisher's cloth, in dust jacket. 9 x 5 1/2 inches (22.5 x 13.75 cm); decorative title page, half-title. Jacket toned with some edgewear and small losses to spine and upper edge, price present, some soiling to cloth, interior clean and bright. With a long, personal inscription to Saroyan's longtime correspondent, author and poet Grace Stone Coates on the front free endpaper. They wrote many personal letters between Montana and San Francisco, and Saroyan always credited Coates with influencing his work. He writes, "Dear Grace: I do not know what to say, or how. This: not giving: perhaps returning. Anyway, in our time we have spoken together: from a room in California to a room in Montana: and sometimes without words. I do not feel proud of this book. Of William Saroyan, a little, since he became nearly what he wished to become, though God alone knows why. Since he refused death, one way or another. As always, smiling, good wishes: Will." C Property of a Maine Collector