Plays of J P Donleavy

DELTA BOOK CO. Paperback. Good. Dell Publishing Company, (a Delta Book) [Published date: 1972]. Paper covers, 442 pp. Stated First Delta printing, August 1972. In good condition. Green paper covers with blue and black lettering. Light bumping and creasing to edges of covers. Moderate overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well with a bit of the color scuffed off in several places on the covers. Spine lightly creased by binding is still tight. Light spotting and soiling to edges of text block. Pages lightly yellowed with age but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. 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 reviews: of The Ginger Man, the London Daily Express said: "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 said: "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 theauthor 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 ofstories, Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule.