My Name Is Aram

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940. Fourth edition. Yellow octavo, x, 220 pages, b&w illustrations, color front illus; 22 cm. No jacket. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, gently bumped corners, light soiling to boards, faint sunning to spine and rear spine, ownership bookplate and ink signature, date to front free endpaper, light soiling to front pastedown, bright pages, tight binding, else about good+ due to external sopiling. Hardcover.

Saroyan, William, 1908-1981 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction. Shares stories of childhood as seen through the eyes of a young Armenian boy in Fresno, California. Contents: The summer of the beautiful white horse -- The journey to Hanford -- The pomegranate trees -- One of our future poets, you might say -- The fifty-yard dash -- A nice old-fashioned romance, with love lyrics and everything -- My cousin Dikran, the orator -- The Presbyterian choir singers -- The circus -- The three swimmers and the grocer from Yale -- Locomotive 38, the Ojibway -- Old country advice to the American traveler -- The poor and burning Arab -- A word to scoffers. Series: Harbrace modern classics. Article by author included to front free endpaper, detatched.