THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE - Inscribed to Saroyan's Editor

New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Tall Octavo. Author's first book. SIGNED BY WILLIAM SAROYAN AND WARMLY INSCRIBED TO HIS EDITOR AS FOLLOWS: "To Kenneth Houston/a fine editor, with/sincere good wishes/for the continued/success of Literary/America, the magazine,/and the state of/the country itself-/William Saroyan./Manhattan/May 22/1935. This first edition was limited to 2000 copies. 270pp., bound in pale gray cloth with wrap around gold label printed in black, spine black; dust jacket spine lightly toned, small loss at top of rear spine fold. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.