Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. Breakfast of Champions has themes of free will, suicide, and race relations among others.


First Edition — First Printing

May – 1973
(Standard Hardcover)
Delacorte Publishing


First Edition — Second Printing

May – 1973
(Standard Hardcover*)
Delacorte Publishing


First Edition — Third Printing

May – 1973
(Standard Hardcover)
Delacorte Publishing


First Edition — Fourth Printing

May – 1973
(Standard Hardcover)
Delacorte Publishing


First Edition — Fifth Printing

May – 1973
(Standard Hardcover*)
Delacorte Publishing


UK First Edition — First Printing

1973
(Standard Hardcover)
Jonathan Cape Publishing


Book Club Edition

1973
(Standard Hardcover)
Delacorte Publishing


Book Club Edition

1973
(Standard Hardcover**)
Delacorte Publishing


Collector’s Edition

1973
(Standard Hardcover)
International Collector’s Library


Mass Market Edition — First Printing

March – 1974
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Trade Edition — First Printing

April – 1974
(Trade Paperback)
Delta Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780385283649
ISBN-10: 0385283644


Trade Edition — Second Printing

April – 1974
(Trade Paperback)
Delta Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780385283649
ISBN-10: 0385283644


Trade Edition — Third Printing

April – 1974
(Trade Paperback)
Delta Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780385283649
ISBN-10: 0385283644


Trade Edition — Fourth Printing

April – 1974
(Trade Paperback)
Delta Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780385283649
ISBN-10: 0385283644


Romanian Mass Market Edition

1974
(Mass Market Paperback)
E Yayinlari Publishing


Mass Market Edition — First Printing^

January – 1975
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


UK Mass Market Edition — First Printing

1975
(Mass Market Paperback)
Panther Books


UK Mass Market Edition — Second Printing

1975
(Mass Market Paperback)
Panther Books


Mass Market Edition — Twelfth Printing

May – 1979
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition — Twenty-Seventh Printing

November – 1988
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition — Thirtieth Printing

November – 1991
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780440131489
ISBN-10: 0440131480


Mass Market Edition — Thirty-Second Printing

November – 1991
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780440131489
ISBN-10: 0440131480


Mass Market Library Edition — Thirty-Fifth Printing

November – 1991
(Mass Market Hardcover)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition — Thirty-Eighth Printing

November – 1991
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780440131489
ISBN-10: 0440131480


UK Trade Edition — Seventh Printing

1992
(Trade Paperback)
Vintage Books – London
ISBN-13: 9780099842606
ISBN-10: 0099842602


Trade Edition — Tenth Printing

May – 1999
(Trade Paperback)
Delta Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 9780385334204
ISBN-10: 0385334206


Russian Mass Market Edition

2001
(Mass Market Hardcover)
Санк-Петербурr Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780099842606
ISBN-10: 0099842602


Trade Edition — Nineteenth Printing

January – 2006
(Trade Paperback)
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 9780385334204
ISBN-10: 0385334206


Trade Edition — Twentieth Printing

January – 2006
(Trade Paperback)
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 9780385334204
ISBN-10: 0385334206


UK Trade Edition — Seventeenth Printing

2007
(Trade Paperback)
Vintage Books – London
ISBN-13: 9780099842606
ISBN-10: 0099842602


UK Trade Edition — Thirty-Third Printing

2009
(Trade Paperback)
Vintage Books – London
ISBN-13: 9780099842606
ISBN-10: 0099842602


Trade Edition — Thirty-Third Printing

2011
(Trade Paperback)
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 9780385334204
ISBN-10: 0385334206


Trade Edition — Thirty-Eighth Printing

2011
(Trade Paperback)
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 9780385334204
ISBN-10: 0385334206


Audiobook CD

2015
(MP3 Compact Disc)
Audible Studios


Script Booklet

2017
(Booklet)
Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN-13: 9780573605734
ISBN-10: 0573605734


Russian Mass Market Edition — Second Printing

2019
(Mass Market Paperback)
AST Publishers
ISBN-13: 9785170892976
ISBN-10: 5170892977


*Facsimile Dust Jacket
**Custom Dust Jacket
^Second “First Printing” Release