The Saddest Summer of Samuel S by J.P. Donleavy, Penguin Books

Published May 17, 2025
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The Saddest Summer of Samuel S is a novella by American-Irish author J.P. Donleavy (1926–2017), first published by Delacorte Press, New York, in 1966. Harry Willock provided the typographic cover design for the British paperback edition from 1968 ( Penguin Books 2832) shown here, featuring contoured caps from Cooper Black, filled with a rainbow gradient.



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