Full Title:

Title page recto: THE | BEST SHORT STORIES | OF 1919 | AND THE | YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN | SHORT STORY | EDITED BY | EDWARD J. O'BRIEN | EDITOR OF "THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1915" | "THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1916" | THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1917" | THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1918" ETC. | BOSTON | SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY | PUBLISHERS (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1918, by Margaret C. Anderson, Charles Scribner's Sons, Smart Set Com- | pany, Inc., and The Century Company. | Copyright, 1919, by The Boston Transcript Company. | Copyright, 1919, by The Century Company, Harper & Brothers, The Bellman Com- | pany, The Pictorial Review Company, The Ridgway Company, The Curtis Publishing | Company, The American Hebrew, and The McCall Company. | Copyright 1920, by Gulielma Fell Alsop, Sherwood Anderson, Edwina Stanton | Babcock, Djuna Barnes, Frederick Orin Bartlett, Agnes Mary Brownell, Maxwell | Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Horace Fish, Susan Glaspell Cook, Henry Good- | man, Richard Matthews Hallet, Joseph Hergesheimer, Will E. Ingersoll, Calvin John- | ston, Howard Mumford Jones, Ellen N. La Motte, Elias Lieberman, Mary Heaton | O'Brien, and Anzia Yezierska, | Copyright, 1920, by Small. Maynard & Company, Inc. | [in italic] Third printing, December, 1920 | Fourth Printing, December 1924 (see image above).

Publication:

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, Publishers; December 1924

Collation:

Crown octavo [19.2 cm. (7 9/16-in.) x 13.7 cm. (5⅝-in.)]; xx + 412 [page numbers 351-352 not used, pp. 351-412 numnerated as 353-414] ; (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (verso blank); (ix)-x CONTENTS; (xi) fly-title (verso blank); (xiii)-xix INTRODUCTION (verso blank); (1) fly-title; (2) Note; 3-349 text; (350) fly-title: THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY NOVEMBER, 1918, TO SEPTEMBER, 1919; [page numbers 351-352 skipped]; 353-354 ADDRESSES OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES PUBLISHING SHORT STORIES; 355-363 THE BIOGRAPHICAL ROLL OF HONOR OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES; 364-365 THE ROLL OF HONOR OF FOREIGN SHORT STORIES IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES; 366-371 VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1918, TO SEPTEMBER, 1919: AN INDEX; 372-380 ARTICLES ON THE SHORT STORY OCTOBER, 1918, TO SEPTEMBER, 1919; 381-383 MAGAZINE AVERAGES FOR 1919; 384-414 INDEX OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES OCTOBER, 1918, TO SEPTEMBER, 1919

Binding:

Black cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: THE | BEST | SHORT | STORIES | OF | 1919 | [rule] | O'Brien | SMALL | MAYNARD | & COMPANY. Front cover: [all enclosed in a blind-stamped single ruled box] THE | BEST SHORT STORIES | OF 1919 | And the | Yearbook of the American | Short Story | Edited by | Edward J. O'Brien (see image above).

Notes:

Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970) was an American writer born in Poland. Her stories and novels highlighted the struggles of immigrants and particularly of Jewish immigrant women. The appearance of her short story "The Fat of the Land" in this volume was influential in furthering her career. The Samuel Goldwyn Company produced her 1922 novel Salome of the Tenaments as a silent film in 1925. The film still survives and was restored and re-releasd in 2006.