The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men

Gene Feldman & Max Garenberg, eds. | Cloth | The Ciadel Press, New York, 1958 - 384 pages

Contains the scene "The Interview" from the Donleavy play Fairy Tales of New York. Contributors include Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Colin Wilson, John Osborne and many others.

Protest: The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men

Gene Feldman & Max Garenberg, eds. | Cloth | Souvenir Press, London, 1959 - 384 pages

The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men

Gene Feldman & Max Garenberg, eds. | Wraps | Dell, New York, 1959 - 416 pages

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The Permanent Playboy

Edited by Ray Russell | Cloth | Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1959 - 503 pages

Contains "A Dish of Desire" by Donleavy. This story later appeared in the Donleavy book of short stories Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule under the title "It Was My Chimes." Other short pieces by Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, P.G. Wodehouse and many more.

Alienation - A Symposium

Edited by Timothy O'Keeffe | Cloth | MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1960 - 188 pages

This collection of essays by an international selection of authors regarding being an expatriate contains Donleavy's "Wither Wigwams" - views on America and leaving the country of his birth. This piece too was later republished in Donleavy's book of collected short stories and sketches, Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule.

Exkursionen: Erzählungen unserer Zeit

Edited by Carl Hanser | Cloth | Hanser, München, Germany, 1964 - 326 pages

A rare collection of international writers all translated into German. Includes Donleavy's "The Romantic Life of Alphonse A," collected in the various US and UK editions of the book of short stories and sketches Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule. Found here under the title "Das romantische Leben des Alphose A."

Theatre Today

Edited by David Thompson | Cloth (issued w/o dust jacket) | Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., London, 1965 (2nd printing)

JPD in a playwrights' collection including Bernard Shaw, William Saroyan, Harold Pinter and others. Contains "The Interview" scene from the play Fairy Tales of New York.

Black Humor

Edited and with an Introduction by Bruce Jay Friedman | Wraps | Bantam, New York 1965 - 174 pages

First US mass market edition. Contains an excerpt from The Ginger Man by Donleavy. Additional short pieces by Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, Céline, Terry Southern, Vladamir Nabokov, Edward Albee and others.

Black Humor

Edited and with an Introduction by Bruce Jay Friedman | Wraps | Corgi (an imprint of Transworld Publishers), London 1965 - 174 pages

First UK mass market edition. Contains an excerpt from The Ginger Man by Donleavy. Additional short pieces by Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, Céline, Terry Southern, Vladamir Nabakov, Edward Albee and others.

The Olympia Reader: Selections from the Traveler's Companion Series

Edited by Maurice Girodias | Cloth | Grove Press, New York, 1965 - 725 pages

Contains an excerpt from The Ginger Man by Donleavy and an interesting, albeit brief, critique of Donleavy's work by author Colin Wilson. Contributors include, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and others.

The Best of Olympia

Edited by Maurice Girodias | wraps | New English Library, London, 1966

First UK edition of anthology comprised of work from the 4 issues of the short-lived magazine: Olympia. Contains an excerpt from the unexpurgated Olympia edition of The Ginger Man.

Ny amerikansk prosa

Edited  by Erik Wiedmann | Binding? | Stig Vendelkær, Sweden, 1966

A collection of short fiction by America writers published in Swedish.

JPD's contribution is: Ferskenfarvede sko. Other contributors include Ralph Ellison, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, John Barth, John Updike and others.

The World of Black Humor: An Introductory Anthology of Selections and Criticism

Edited  by Douglas M. Davis | Wraps | E.P. Dutton, New York, 1967

A collection of short works and by 15 American novelists, including JPD, Pynchon, Joseph Heller, Henry Miller and others. Researching the Donleavy contribution. Scarce book.

Get Off My Back

Edited  by Sondra Touster | Wraps | Dell, New York,  March, 1968 - 253 pages

A collection of short works and excerpts all having interchanges between psychotherapists and patients as the common denominator. Contains an excerpt from The Saddest Summer of Samuel S by Donleavy. Other authors include Terry Southern, Joseph Heller and Ken Kessey.

The Olympia Reader: Selections from the Traveler's Companion Series

Edited by Maurice Girodias | Wraps | Quality Paperback Book Club, New York,
(no date given)

Contents the same as the above hardcover first edition.

Black Humor

Edited and with an Introduction by Bruce Jay Friedman | Wraps | Bantam Modern Classics, New York 1969 - 174 pages

Reprint contains the same excerpt from The Ginger Man by Donleavy that appears in the first US and UK editions. Additional contents also unchanged from firsts.

Playboy's Stories for Swinging Readers

Selected by the editors of Playboy | Wraps | Playboy Press, Chicago, 1969  - 217 pages

Contains Donleavy's "Dish of Desire," again, later published in the Donleavy collection Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule as "It Was My Chimes."

Contributors include Bernard Wolfe, William F. Noland, Ray Bradbury, John Wallace and many others.

Works in Progress #7

Edited by Martha Saxton | Wraps | Literary Guild (distributed by Doubleday, New York), 1972 - 438 pages

Contains Donleavy's preface to his then forthcoming book of collected plays published by Delacorte Press (hardcover) and Dell/Delta (paperback) in 1972, The Plays of JP Donleavy ("The Ginger Man," "A Singular Man," "The Saddest Summer of Samuel S" and "Fairy Tales of New York").

Multimmediate: Multi Media and the Art of Writing

Warren L Clare & Kenneth J. Ericksen, editors | Wraps | Random House, New York 1972  - 257 pages

Contains Donleavy's short story "Meet My Maker" from his book of short fiction, Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule.Wild range of contributors, including Eldridge Cleaver, T.S. Eliot, Faulkner, Ken Kesey, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss.

Moderne Erzähler aus West und Ost 2

Cloth | Goldmann-Tasschenbuch, München, (no date given) 147 pages

"Researching JPD contribution"

Great Erotic Scenes from Literature, Playboy Press, Chicago 1972 | Cloth | 351 pages | edited by Robert Reisner

JPD along with D.H. Lawrence, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Norman Mailer and others.

The Writer's Image

by Jill Krementz| Cloth | David R. Godine, Boston 1980

Photographic portraits of writers with quotes, including JPD.

Subject and structure: an anthology for writers

by John M Wasson| Cloth | Little, Brown, Boston 1981 | ISBN 0316924237

JPD included.

The Olympia Reader

Edited by Maurice Girodias | Wraps | Black Cat (an imprint of Grove Press), New York 1982

4th printing. Contents the same as the above Grove Press hardcover first edition, including the chapter from the unexpurgated The Ginger Man