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Notes on this edition: Une histoire du monde en 10 chapitres ½ | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Paris: Mercure de France/Folio, 2013. Pp. 517 + [11]. 17.9 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Michel Courtois-Fourcy. ISBN: 9782070452033. (French).
Folio no. 5612.
Notes on this edition: Pod Słońce | Staring at the Sun. Poznań: Zysk i S-ka Wydawn, 1994. Pp. 181 [182] + [2]. 19.5 x 12.8 cm. Translated by Tomasz Bieroń. ISBN: 8386211180. (Polish).
Notes on this edition: Arthur & George. Paris: Mercure de France, 2007. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. (French).
Uncorrected Proof of the French edition of Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George. From the author’s personal collection.
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. Im Land der Schmerzen | In the Land of Pain. Bremen: Manholt, 2004. Pp. 102. 20.4 x 13 cm. ISBN: 3924903034. (German).
Julian Barnes’s introduction, afterword, and notes translated from the English by Bernhard Liesen. Daudet’s text translated from the French by Dirk Hemjeoltmanns.
Notes on this edition: Each author shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize receives a specially bound edition created by a Designer Bookbinders Fellow. The bookbinder designs and completes the edition in 4-5 weeks, and authors are presented with their special editions on the evening of the Man Booker award ceremony.
Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2005, and this special edition was bound by Lester Capon. Photographed from Julian Barnes’s personal collection.
For more information about the Designer Bookbinders, please visit their website.
Notes on this edition: Before She Met Me. London: Pavanne, 1983. Pp. 174 + [4]. 17.7 x 11 cm.
Published by Pan Books.
Notes on this edition: Metroland. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
From Julian Barnes’s personal collection, this set of author proofs is glued on the top edge. This may be the only extant copy of this unusual proof.
Notes on this edition: Before She Met Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Stapled proofs sent to Julian Barnes from his publisher. The proofs are stapled into sections, and these sections are gathered in a paper band, as pictured.
From the author’s personal collection, these proofs may be the only extant copy.
Notes on this edition: Voltaire. Candide, or, Optimism. London: Folio Society, 2016. Pp. 202. 26.6 x 22.6 cm.
Translated by Tobias Smollett. Introduction by Julian Barnes. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Leather edition signed by Quentin Blake in an edition of 25 copies (not for sale to the public).
The limitation page states:
“THIS EDITION OF CANDIDE HAS BEEN TYPESET IN GARAMOND AT THE FOLIO SOCIETY, AND PRINTED ON MODIGLIANI PAPER BY GRAMMLICH, PLIEZHAUSEN, GERMANY. THE BINDING BY BELTZ FINE BOOKS, BAD LANGENSALZA, GERMANY, IS IN FULL NIGERIAN GOATSKIN LEATHER BLOCKED WITH A DESIGN BY THE ARTIST. THE EDITION IS LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES FOR SALE TO MEMBERS OF THE FOLIO SOCIETY, AND 25 LETTERED COPIES WHICH ARE NOT FOR SALE.”
Notes on this edition: Глядя на солнце | Staring at the Sun. Moscow: ACT, 2004. Pp. 253 [254] + [2]. 20.5 x 13.3 cm. Translated by И. Гуровой (I. Gurova). ISBN: 5170212690. (Russian).