A poem, beginning “Tales are people who sit on the doorstep,” appears on p., the page preceding the half-title.
Dedication (p.[vii]): To Robert and John Anderson.
Contents: The dumb man; I want to know why; Seeds; The other woman; The egg; Unlighted lamps; Senility; The man in the brown coat; Brothers; The door of the trap; The New Englander; War; Motherhood; Out of nowhere into nothing; The man with the trumpet.
18. First English edition:
London, Jonathan Cape, 1922. xi, 269p.
19. Reprint:
Tokyo, Kairyudo [1958?] 2 volumes: 147, 167p. Edited and annotated by Kichinosuke Ohashi. (Kairyudo’s Mentor Library, no. 10)
20. Translations:
Un païen de l’Ohio. Nouvelles tirées de The triumph of the egg et de Horses and men. Paris, Rieder, 1927. 218p. Tr., Marguerite Gay. Preface, Eugène Jolas.
Das Ei triumphiert; Novellen. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1926. 263p. Tr., Karl Lerbs.