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"Every tulip
Is a julep
And all the mint
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J.P. Donleavy from
Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule |
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It's too bad the short story market is not a lucrative one for contemporary writers.
Donleavy excels in short fiction, although little critical attention is given to him regarding
his short pieces. Many of these works appeared first in periodicals (see JPD in Periodicals
for details) and some have been included in anthologies (see JPD - Anthologies for more).
Two pieces, "A Fairy Tale of New York" and "In my Peach Shoes" became integrated into
the novel version of A Fairy Tale of New York. "One for Yes" is an excerpt from the
novel A Singular Man, also first published in 1964 by Atlantic/Little, Brown. |
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To purchase books by
J.P. Donleavy go to the
JPD Buyers' Directory |
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about other editions of
this title, including non-
English language editions,
please email the JPDC
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule (stories & sketches) |
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Cloth | Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston, 1964 - 178 pages
This edition, the first trade edition, is sometimes incorrectly
listed with a publication date of 1960. Individual copyrights
for some of the stories are listed before the table of contents,
one of them being © 1960 The Curtis Publishing Co. However,
just above this notice are other individual copyright dates, the
last being 1964.
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Cloth | Delacorte Press, New York, 1965 - 178 pages
Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte edition. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Cloth | The Bodley Head, London, 1965 - 178 pages
This is the first UK edition. Donleavy had a long association
with the publishing firm now known as Penguin Ltd. and its
many imprints, among them The Bodley Head, Allen Lane,
Viking, and, of course, Penguin. The bulk of Donleavy's
published catalog was published by Penguin in hard cover,
paperback or both under these various imprints. The few
exceptions are A Singular Country, De Alfonse Tennis
and his newer fiction The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms
and Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton.
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1967 - 170 pages
This is the first paperback edition.
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det gale molekyle |
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Wraps | gyldendal, København, Denmark, 1967
178 pages
Danish translation Paperback with dust jacket. This
copy has pages not cut open from the orignally bound
signatures when printed.
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Dell, New York, 1968 - 191 pages
First US paperback edition. During the period when
Donleavy was published in the US by Seymour Lawrence,
hardcover editions were generally published under the
Delacorte Press imprint, paperbacks by arrangement with
Dell/Laurel/Delta. A few exceptions include the Donleavy
autobiographical nonfiction works A Singular Country,
J.P. Donleavy's Ireland, and The History of The Ginger
Man as well as the "legend" De Alfonse Tennis (all hardcover
editions), and Berkley, NY reprints of The Ginger Man. In
the late '80s, Donleavy's US paperback publisher became
Atlantic Monthly Press (now Grove/Atlantic). |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1970 - 170 pages
ISBN 14002719X
1st. Penguin reprint.
A few differences mark this cover from the 1st paperback
edition: the Penguin logo is now to the right of the author's
name, and the subhead "author of The Ginger Man."
is omitted. |
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Das tollgewordene Molekill |
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Binding? | Kindler, München, 1970 - ? pages
German translation. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1971
170 pages - ISBN 14002719X
2rd Penguin reprint.
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La molecola matta e altri racconti |
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Binding? | Publisher? Milano, 1972 - ? pages
Italian translation. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1973
170 pages - ISBN 14002719X
3rd Penguin reprint. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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No photo yet.
Edition being sought. |
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Wraps | Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1975
170 pages - ISBN 14002719X
4th Penguin reprint. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule /
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S |
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Wraps | Dell (first Laurel ed.), NY, 1975 - 258 pages
ISBN 44005937175
This curious edition combines for the first and
(to my knowledge) only time any two Donleavy
fiction titles have been published together in a single
volume. The Saddest Summer of Samuel S is a
novella published in several single editions, and it
was adapted for the stage by the author under
the same title. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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No photo yet.
Edition being sought. |
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Wraps | Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1976 - 170 pages
ISBN 14002719X
5th Penguin reprint. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1979 - 170 pages
ISBN 14002719X
6th Penguin reprint. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule /
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S |
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Wraps | Dell (Laurel), NY, June, 1979
258 pages - ISBN 44005937175
2nd Dell Laurel printing. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Penguin, London, 1981 - 170 pages
ISBN 14002719X
7th Penguin reprint. |
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Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule |
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Wraps | Penguin, London, 1988 - 170 pages
ISBN 14002719X
8th Penguin reprint. Larger format. |
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