NMLP P-041980 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Happy Days

Samuel Beckett · Grove Press, New York · 1961

No book-club issue is documented in the sources consulted for either the Grove or the Faber edition — unsurprising for a slim avant-garde play text, and the Grove issue's wrappers format makes a club printing inapplicable. The live reprint trap is not a club edition but format confusion: later Grove/Evergreen printings and the Faber reissues (later ISBNs 9780571229161, 9780571244577, 9780571297030) are routinely offered as "first editions" on the strength of the 1961 or 1962 copyright date. Read the Grove copyright page for the absence of any additional printing statement; on Faber, confirm the 1962 date and the red cloth.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041980 for "Happy Days" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041980, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).