Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Pulsations | Pulse. [Paris]: Mercure de France, 2011. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. Pp. 329 + [7]. 17.8 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 9782070450305. (French).
Gallimard Folio series no. 5510
Month: October 2016
Rien à craindre | Nothing to Be Frightened of (Mercure de France / Folio, 2009; French)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Rien à craindre | Nothing to Be Frightened of. [Paris]: Mercure de France, 2009. Pp. 395 [396] + [4]. 17.7 x 10.7 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 9782070418824. (French).
Gallimard Folio series no. 5070.
The Truth about Dogs by Volker Kriegel (Bloomsbury, 1988)
Notes on this edition: First edition – Volker Kriegel. The Truth about Dogs. London: Bloomsbury, 1988. £4.95. Originally published as Kriegels Kleine Hunde-Kunde by Volker Kriegel. Translated and with an introduction by Julian Barnes.
Descriptive Bibliography:
Title Page: THE TRUTH ABOUT | DOGS | Volker Kriegel | Translated and introduced by | Julian Barnes | [cartoon by Kriegel] | BLOOMSBURY
Copyright Page: First published in Great Britain 1988 | Originally published under the title Kriegels Kleine | Hunde-Kunde by Haffmans Verlag | Copyright © 1986 by Haffmans Verlag | Introduction and translation © 1988 | by Julian Barnes | Guist dog on page 1 drawn by Tatjana Hauptmann | Bloomsbury Publishing Limited, | 2 Soho Square, London W1V 5DE | British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data | Kriegel, Volker | The truth about dogs. | 1. German humorous cartoons—Collection | from individual artists | 1. Title | 741.5’943 | ISBN 0 7475 0232 3 | Printed in Great Britain by | Butler & Tanner Limited, Frome
Collation: 15.4 x 9.2 cm. Pp. [1-6] 7-121 [122-128]. [1]: ‘The Truth About Dogs | [drawing of dog]’. [2]: blank. [3]: title page. [4]: copyright page. [5]: ‘For Ev | but also for Juli, Nico, Joles | and all the others’. [6]: [drawing of dog]. 7-10: [introduction by Julian Barnes]. 11-121: text. [122-128]: blank.
General description: Binding 16 x 9.7 cm. Yellow boards, gold blocked on spine. White endpapers. Cream dust jacket lettered in black and yellow. Upper panel of jacket features a black and blue illustration of a dog crying at a full moon with ‘BLOOMSBURY’ across bottom
Conversaciones con Aristóteles by Jonathan Barnes (Ediciones Oniro, 2008; Spanish)
Notes on this edition: Barnes, Jonathan. Conversaciones con Aristóteles. Barcelona: Ediciones Oniro, 2008. Translated by Gemma Gallart. 171 p. 15 cm. ISBN: 9788497543439. Foreword by Julian Barnes (pp. 9-13).
The Spanish edition of Jonathan Barnes’s fictional conversation with Aristotle includes a translation of Julian Barnes’s foreword included in the English edition.
Auf einen Kaffee mit Aristoteles by Jonathan Barnes (Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2010; German)
Notes on this edition: Barnes, Jonathan. Auf einen Kaffee mit Aristoteles. (Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2010). Translated by Mara-Daria Cojocaru. 124 p. 14 cm. ISBN: 9783423345927. Foreword by Julian Barnes (pp. 7-10).
The German edition of Jonathan Barnes’s fictional conversation with Aristotle includes a translation of Julian Barnes’s foreword included in the English edition.
Coffee with Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes (Duncan Baird, 2008; Foreword)
Notes on this edition: Barnes, Jonathan. Coffee with Aristotle. London: Duncan Baird, 2008. 144 p. 15 cm. ISBN: 9781844836109; Foreword by Julian Barnes (pp. 6-9).
The Coffee with … series features fictional conversations between noted scholars and the subjects of their studies — authors, philosophers, artists, etc. Aristotle scholar Jonathan Barnes authored this edition, and his brother Julian Barnes wrote the introduction. At the end of the introduction, the publisher has included a facsimile signature of the author, as pictured.
Through the Window (Windsor Paragon, 2013; Large Print)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story). [Bath]: Windsor Paragon / AudioGO, 2013. Pp. 271 + [7]. 24 x 16 cm. ISBN: 9781471344701.
This large print edition features cover art found on the original first edition published by Vintage. Copyright page indicates AudioGO’s Windsor imprint published the large print edition in both hardback and paperback versions. Photos for this entry feature the hardback edition.
Une histoire de monde en 10 chapitres 1/2 | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Mercure de France/Folio, 2011; French)
Notes on this edition: Une histoire de monde en 10 chapitres 1/2. Paris: Mercure de France, 2011. Translated into French by Michel Courtois-Fourcy.
Spine and back cover indicate this is a Folio imprint, no. 5612.
Нечего бояться | Nothing to Be Frightened of (Eksmo, 2012; Russian)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Нечего бояться | Nothing to Be Frightened of. Moskva [Moscow]: ĖKSMO, 2012. Pp. 382 + [2]. 17.1 x 11.5 cm. Translated by Сергей Полотовский (Sergey Polotovsky) and Дмитрий Симановский (Dmitry Simanovsky). ISBN: 9785699578658. (Russian).
El loro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot (Anagrama, 2009; Spanish)
Notes on this edition: El loro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Barcelona: Biblioteca Anagrama, 2009. Pp. 229 + [9]. 21.9 x 14.5 cm. Translated by Antonio Mauri. ISBN: 9788447364480. (Spanish).
Hardcover pictorial covers in gold.