A26
Roddy Doyle – The Women Behind The Door
A26 a. UK Edition
1. First Edition
Jonathan Cape. Published 12th September 2024. Hardback. Tea green endpapers, half-title, title, [ii], 260 pages numbered 3-262, [ii]. Pages 233mm x 150mm. Platinum boards; down spine in white ‘RODDY DOYLE The Women | Behind The Door (Cape logo)’.
Dustjacket. 554mm x 241mm. Front: red with a black & white photo of a woman’s face; in black ‘The Booker Prize winner of’, in white ‘PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA’, in pink ‘RODDY | DOYLE’, a quote from The Times, and at the bottom in white ‘The Women | Behind the Door’. ISBN 978-1-787-33490-8. Price on front flap £20.00.
2. Kennys Edition
Jonathan Cape. Published 12th September 2024. Hardback. Pale grey endpapers, half-title, title, [ii], 260 pages numbered 3-262, [i], [iii] ‘Paula Spencer and Me’, [i], 5 blanks. Pages 234mm x 149mm. Black boards; down spine in white ‘RODDY DOYLE The Women | Behind The Door (Cape logo)’.
Dustjacket. 557mm x 240mm. Front: green with a black & white photo of a woman’s face; in black ‘The Booker Prize winner of’, in white ‘PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA’, in pink ‘RODDY | DOYLE’, a quote from The Times, and at the bottom in white ‘The Women | Behind the Door’. ISBN 978-1-787-33490-8. Price on front flap £20.00.
Note 1: This was a limited edition of 750 hand numbered copies signed by Roddy Doyle. It includes the essay ‘Paula Spencer and Me’ on the origin of the novel.
3. Proof
Jonathan Cape. Paperback. Half-title, title, [ii], 260 pages numbered 3-262, [ii]. Pages 198mm x 124mm. Front: white with in orange ‘The Women | Behind the | Door’, in black ‘RODDY DOYLE’, and in grey ‘UNCORRECTED PROOF’, and the Cape logo in black in the top right corner.
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A26 b. USA Edition
1. First Edition
Viking. Published 10th September 2024. Hardback. White endpapers, half-title, [i], title, [ii], 260 pages numbered 3-262. Pages 207mm x 134mm. Cream boards quarter bound in pink; down spine in metallic blue ‘Roddy Doyle (underscore graphic) THE WOMEN BEHIND THE DOOR VIKING’.
Dustjacket. 513mm x 216mm. Front: a portrait painting of a woman on a red background; at the top in yellow ‘BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA’, in white RODDY DOYLE, in yellow ‘THE | WOMEN | BEHIND | THE DOOR’, and up the bottom right corner in white script ‘a novel’. ISBN 978-0-593-83168-7. Price on front flap $29.00.
2. Proof
Viking. Paperback. Half-title, title, [ii], 260 pages numbered 3-262, [ii]. Pages 210mm x 132mm. Front: a portrait painting of a woman on a red background; at the top in yellow ‘BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA’, in white RODDY DOYLE, in yellow ‘THE | WOMEN | BEHIND | THE DOOR’, and up the bottom right corner in white script ‘a novel’, and at the upper right in a black circle with white text ‘(Viking logo) | ADVANCE | UNCORRECTED | PROOFS – NOT | FOR SALE’.
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