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.