Saddest Novel


	"I'm dying. I'm dying." "Shut the water off first." J.P. Donleavy from The Saddest Summer of Samuel S


	Short and bittersweet, Donleavy's novella The Saddest Summer of Samuel S was among the first works published by the Seymour Lawrence Delacorte Press imprint. The story has also been adapted for the stage and appears in the US and UK editions of Donleavy's collected plays.






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		*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Cloth \| Delacorte Press, New York, January 1966 124 pages First trade edition. The first printing does not state it is a first edition or first printing, but all reprints list the first edition. If your copy has just the 1966 copyright notice with no other printing information it is the first edition, first printing. Wonderful cover art is a circa '60s classic by graphic designer/illustrator great Milton Glaser.

		*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Cloth \| Delacorte Press, New York, March 1966 124 pages Second Delacorte Press printing. Identical to first printing, except for publishing history data on front end papers.

		*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Cloth \| Delacorte Press, New York, June 1966 124 pages Third Delacorte Press printing. Identical to prior printings, except for publishing history data on front end papers.

		*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Cloth \| Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd., London, 1967 125 pages First UK edition.

		*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Wraps \| Dell, New York, January 1967 93 pages First US mass paperback edition.

	*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Wraps \| Dell, New York, April 1967 93 pages Second Dell printing.

	*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Wraps \| Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1968 122 pages First UK paperback edition.

		*sorgmodig sommer* Wraps \| gyldendal, Denmark, 1969 95 pages Danish translation. Paperback with dust jacket.

		*De somberste zomer van Samuel S* Wraps \| Literair Paspoor #32 - De Bezige Bij Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, 1969 - 87 pages Dutch translation.

		*Schlimmer Sommer fur Samuel S* Binding? \| Luchterhand, Neuwied, 1970 ? pages German translation.

		*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Wraps \| Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1972 122 pages - ISBN 0140028323 First Penguin reprint. Penguin logo shifted from left side of author's name, as in first printing, to the right.

		*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Wraps \| Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1974 122 pages - ISBN 0140028323 Second Penguin reprint.

	The Saddest Summer of Samuel S & Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule Wraps \| Dell, New York, Sept.1975 258 pages (combined) - ISBN 44005937175 First Dell Laurel printing of what (to date) has been the only edition of two Donleavy fiction works combined in a single volume.

	*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Wraps \| Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1976 122 pages - ISBN 0140028323 Third Penguin reprint.

	*The Saddest Summer of Samuel S* Wraps \| Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1979 122 pages - ISBN 0140028323 Fourth Penguin reprint.

	The Saddest Summer of Samuel S & Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule Wraps \| Dell, New York, June, 1979 258 pages (combined) - ISBN 44005937175 Second Dell Laurel printing.


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