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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Der Mann Im Roten Rock | The Man in the Red Coat. Büchergilde Gutenberg, 2021. Pp. 229 + [1]. 21.8 x 14.6 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 9783763272716. (German).
German Book Club edition in red cloth binding, no dust jacket issued. Cover design by Cosima Schneider.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flauberts papegaai | Flaubert’s Parrot. Amsterdam: L.J. Veen Klassiek, 2021. Pp. 234 + [6]. 21 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Else Hoog. ISBN: 9789020416633. (Dutch).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes [朱利安·巴恩斯]. 10½章世界史 | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Nanjing: 译林出版社 | Yilin Press, 2021. Pp. 337 + [3]. 20.8 x 14.5 cm. Translated by 林本椿 (Lin Benchun) and 宋东升 (Song Dongsheng). ISBN: 9787544785174. (Simplified Chinese).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Elizabeth Finch. London: Jonathan Cape, 2022. Pp. 178 + [8]. 19.8 x 12.9 cm.
This copy is a bound advanced, uncorrected proof of the novel Elizabeth Finch. It includes a letter from the publisher director, as pictured, that provides an overview of the novel.
Notes on this edition: This edition of Jules Renard’s Journal is selected and introduced by Julian Barnes. The Picador edition is the first American edition.
Renard, Jules. Journal 1887-1910. New York: Picador, 2022. Pp. 381 + [1]. 19 x 12.7 cm. Translated from the French by Theo Cuffe.
Notes on this edition: Dan Kavanagh. Heisse Fracht | Fiddle City. Kampa, 2021. Pp. 252 + [4]. 19 x 12 cm. Translated by Michel Bodmer. ISBN: 9783311125396. (German).
Promotional pamphlet titled “Kampa Krimi” that includes information on Dan Kavanagh’s Heisse Fracht. The pamphlet is comprised of seven sheets folded in half to make 28 total pages. 16.6 x 9.1 cm. The advertisement for Heisee Fracht appears on pp. [17].
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes [朱利安·巴恩斯]. 福楼拜的 | Flaubert’s Parrot. Nanjing: 译林出版社 | Yilin Press, 2021. Pp. 269 + [3]. 20.8 x 14.5 cm. Translated by 但汉松 (Dan Hansong). ISBN: 9787544786379. (Simplified Chinese).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Jedina priča | The Only Story. Beograd: Geopoetika, 2018. Pp. 222 + [2]. 20 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Jelena Lazić. ISBN: 9788661453007. (Serbian).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Jedina priča | The Only Story. Zagreb: Opus Gradna, 2018. Pp. 208 + [4]. 20.4 x 14.6 cm. Translated by Igor Buljan. ISBN: 9789538124143. (Croatian).
Notes on this edition: The American edition and the Canadian editions were published simultaneously and are identical in pagination, except for variations to the preliminary page, title page, and copyright page, as noted. The American dust jacket was designed by John Gall.
Descriptive Bibliography: First American edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. $26.95.
Title Page: THE MAN IN THE RED COAT | Julian Barnes | [Random House device] |ALFRED A. KNOPF · NEW YORK · 2020
Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF | Copyright © 2019 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, | a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in | hardcover in Great Britain in slightly different form by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of | Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019. | www.aaknopf.com | Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered | trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Names: Barnes, Julian, author. | Title: The man in the red coat / Julian Barnes. | Description: First edition. [bar ‘|’] New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. [bar ‘|’] | Identifiers: LCCN 2019028764 9print0 [bar ‘|’] LCCN 2019028765 (ebook) [bar ‘|’] | ISBN 9780525658771 (hardcover) [bar ‘|’] ISBN 9780525658788 (ebook) | Subjects: LCSH: Pozzi, Samuel, 1846-1918. [bar ‘|’] Gynecologists—France—Biography. | Classification: LCC RG76.P69 B37 2020 (print) [bar ‘|’] | LCC RG76.P69 (ebook) [bar ‘|’] DDC 618.10092 [B]—dc23 | LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028764 | LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028765 | Jacket image: Dr. Pozzi at Home (1881), by John Singer Sargent | (detail). Armand Hammer Foundation, USA/Bridgeman Images | Jacket design by John Gall | Manufactured in Germany | First United States Edition
Collation: 21.0 x 15.2 cm. Pp. [Note: except in the case of full-page illustrations, all even pages are unnumbered with a running title ‘THE MAN IN THE RED COAT’ and all odd pages are numbered. Full page illustrations appear on pages 7, 15, 26, 34, 35, 57, 60, 64, 72, 104, 111, 119, 122, 125, 128, 138, 153, 158, 172, 177, 209, 216]. [i-viii] [1-4] 5-265 [266-280]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘ALSO BY JULIAN BARNES | FICTION | Metroland | Before She Met Me | Flaubert’s Parrot | Staring at the Sun | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters | Talking It Over | The Porcupine | Cross Channel | England, England | Love, Etc. | The Lemon Table | Arthur & George | Pulse | The Sense of an Ending | The Noise of Time | The Only Story | NONFICTION | Letters from London, 1990–1995 | Something to Declare | The Pedant in the Kitchen | Nothing to Be Frightened Of | Through the Window | Levels of Life | Keeping an Eye Open | TRANSLATION | In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: ‘THE MAN IN THE RED COAT’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘TO RACHEL’. [viii]: blank. [1]: ‘THE MAN IN THE RED COAT’. [2]: blank. [3]-265: text [except as noted above regarding illustrations]. [266-267]: text [‘Author’s Note’]. [268]: text [‘Acknowledgements’]. [269]: blank. [270-271]: text [‘Illustration Credits’]. [272]: text [‘A Note About The Author’]. [273]: blank. [274]: text [‘A Note on the Type’]. [275-280]: blank.
General Description: Binding 21.5 x 15.9 cm. Black cloth boards stamped in gold lettering to the spine. Light cream endpapers with photographs of luminaries discussed in the book. Back flap of the dust jacket features an author photograph by Urszula Soltys.