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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Cross Channel. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 211 + [5]. 19.7 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780099540151.
The copyright page states the book is a 5th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Metroland. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 176. 19.6 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780099540069.
The copyright page states the book is a 6th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Staring at the Sun. New York: Perennial Library, 1988. Pp. 197 + [5]. 20.2 x 13.5 cm. ISBN: 0060971487.
First U.S. paperback edition. Cover illustration by Karen Katz.
Notes on this edition:
Julian Barnes. “Verbindungswewe,” “Dirty Story: Die Entstehung der Madame Bovary” & “Allseits akzeptierte Ansichten.” Der Rabe: Magazin fur jede , No. 47, Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1996. Pp. 253 + [3]. 17.9 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 3251100475.
Julian Barnes contributes three works to this issue of Der Rabe, also known as “Der Flaubert-Rabe.”
“Verbindungswewe” (pp. [107]-125; translated by Gertraude Krueger)
“Dirty Story: Die Entstehung der Madame Bovary” (pp. [144]-149; translated from the English by Volker Kriegel)
“Allseits akzeptierte Ansichten.” (pp. [200]-204; translated by Michael Walter and Volker Kriegel)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Zehn Vorschläge.” Von Büchern & Menschen. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1988. Pp. 176. 18 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 3627500024. (German).
Julian Barnes’s contribution, an excerpt from Flaubert’s Parrot, appears on pp. 96-99 and is translated by Michael Walter.
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. In the Land of Pain. Edited and translated by Julian Barnes. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Pp. [xvi] + 87 + [1].
Unbound Proof printed on one side only. Sheets measure 29.7 x 21 cm (A4). Dust jacket proof also featured.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Levels of Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. Pp. 117 [118] + [2 sheets].
Unbound Proof printed on one side only in an enlarged font. Sheets measure 29.7 x 21 cm (A4).
Notes on this issue: “Endings and Beginnings: The Success of Author Julian Barnes.” Gazette: The Magazine of the City of London School Alumni Association, Issue 303, Summer 2012.
Julian Barnes is featured on pp. 8-9.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Through the Window: Seventeen Essays and a Short Story. London: Vintage Books, 2012. Pp. 243 + [3]. 19.8 x 12.8 cm.
Uncorrected Proof of the first U.K. Vintage edition. Inscribed by Julian Barnes to his bibliographer.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “EL SENTIDO DE UN FINAL.” Primeras páginas: Los escritores del HAY en sus propias palabras, Arcadia: Periodismo Cultural, 2013.
The opening passage from Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending is reprinted in Spanish on p. 4.