A3
Roddy Doyle – The Van
A3 a. UK Edition
1. First Edition
Secker & Warburg. Published 1991. Hardback. Tiffany blue endpapers, half-title, title, [ii], 311 pages numbered 1-311. Pages 214mm x 133mm. Royal blue boards; down spine in black ‘RODDY DOYLE . THE VAN SECKER & | WARBURG’.
Dustjacket. 484mm x 223mm. Front: an illustration of a burger van in the sea; in white text ‘RODDY | DOYLE | THE VAN’ and in yellow ‘Secker & Warburg’. ISBN 0-436-20052-X. Price on front flap £13.99.
Note 1: The MW Collection includes a copy extensively annotated by Roddy Doyle in 2022.
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A3 b. USA Edition
1. First Edition
Viking. Published 1992. Hardback. White endpapers, half-title, title, [ii], 311 pages numbered 1-311. Pages 214mm x 135mm. White boards quarter bound in black cloth; down spine in metallic red ‘RODDY DOYLE — THE VAN VIKING’.
Dustjacket. 511mm x 222mm. Front: white with ‘THE VAN’ in red and an arrow pointing down to a small illustration of a burger van in the sea; at the top in black text ‘RODDY DOYLE’, in red ‘Author of The Commitments and The Snapper’. ISBN 0-670-84587-6. Price on front flap $21.00.
2. Proof
Penguin. Paperback. [i], half-title, title, [ii], 311 pages numbered 1-311, 3 blanks. Pages 213mm x 133mm. Front: blue-grey with text in black. Down the spine in black ‘DOYLE THE VAN (Viking Ship logo) VIKING’.
Note 1: Some copies have a handwritten publication date of “8/92” and price “$21.00” on the front cover.
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