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This curious edition combines two Donleavy books together in a single 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.

Dell Publishing Company, (a Delta Book) [Published 1972]. Paper covers, 442 pp. Includes several nice b&w photos of the productions by Lewis Morley. [From back cover] Here are gathered in a single volume four plays by of the finest and most touching comic writers of our time (London Times), based on the author's own works. The plays are The Ginger Man, Fairy Tales of New York, A Singular Man and The Saddest Summer of Samuel S. The productions have garnered excellent of The Ginger Man, the London Daily Express "A bawdy, blasphemous, rich, ragged, monstrous masterpiece"; Kenneth Tynan wrote about Fairy Tales of New York . . . a chain of theatrical pearls nourished by a master of comic dialogue"; and of A Singular Man the London Times "One of the funniest and one of the saddest plays. . . ." The Saddest Summer of Samuel S has not yet been produced, and this marks its first publication in play form. J. P. Donleavy was born in New York City m 1926 and educated there and at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of four novels, The Ginger Man, A Singular Man,Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, and The Onion Eaters, a short novel, The Saddest Summer of Samuel S; and a collection of stories, Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule.