Outre-Manche | Cross Channel (Denoël, 1998; French)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Outre-Manche | Cross Channel. Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1998. Pp. 247 + [9]. 20.5 x 13.9 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. (French).

This copy features a wrap-around promotional band, as pictured.

Al otro lado del canal | Cross Channel (Anagrama, 1997; Spanish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Al otro lado del Canal | Cross Channel. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1997. Pp. 208 + [8]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Carmen Francí and Juan Gabriel López Guix. ISBN: 8433908391. (Spanish).

The copy presented below is the second printing (May 1997): “Segunda edición: mayo 1997”.

Inglaterra, Inglaterra | England, England (ASA Editores, 2000; Portuguese – Portugal)


Notes on this edition: Inglaterra, Inglaterra | England, England. Porto: ASA Editores, 2000. Pp. 259 [1]. Translated by José Luís Luna. ISBN: 9724123197. (Portuguese – Portugal).

Po drugiej stronie La Manche | Cross Channel (Prószyński i S-ka, 2003; Polish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Po drugiej stronie La Manche | Cross Channel. Warszawa: Prószyński i S-ka, 2003. Pp. 150 [151] + [1]. 20.2 x 14.2 cm. Translated by Magdalena Pietrzak-Merta. ISBN: 8373373047. (Polish).

Something to Declare (Random House Canada, 2002)


Notes on this edition: First Canadian edition – Toronto: Random House Canada, 2002. $27.95.

Descriptive Bibliography: 

Title Page: Julian Barnes | Something to Declare | [publisher device] | Random House Canada

Copyright Page: Copyright © Julian Barnes 2002 | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American | Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be | reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical | means, including information storage and retrieval systems, | without permission in writing from the publisher, except | by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2002 by Random House Canada, | a division of Random House of Canada Limited. | Published simultaneously in the UK by Picador, | an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd. | Random House Canada and colophon are trademarks. | The acknowledgements on pages 303-4 constitute | an extension of this copyright page. | National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data | Barnes, Julian | Something to Declare | Includes index. | ISBN 0-679-31209-9 | 1. France—Civilization.  2. Popular culture—France. | DC33.7.B323 2002 944 C2001-903758-9 | www.randomhouse.ca | Printed and bound in the United Kingdom | 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.

Collation: 19.6 x 12.9 cm. Pp. [i-vi] vii-xviii [1-2] 3-16 [17-18] 19-33 [34-36] 37-47 [48-50] 51-62 [63-64] 65-76 [77-78] 79-97 [98-100] 101-108 [109-110] 111-144 [145-146] 147-170 [171-172] 173-192 [193-194] 195-208 [209-210] 211-214 [215-216] 217-234 [235-236] 237-249 [250-252] 253-267 [268-270] 271-287 [288-290] 291-318. [i]: ‘Something to Declare | JULIAN BARNES has published nine novels, 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, England, | England and Love, etc.  He is the author of a book of short stories, | Cross Channel, and also a collection of journalism, Letters from | London 1990–1995. His work has been translated into more | than thirty languages. He is the only British writer to have won | both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert’s Parrot) and the Prix Fémina | (for Talking It Over). In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare | Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg. He lives in London.’. [ii]: ‘Also by Julian Barnes in Picador | 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 | Letters from London 1990–1995 | Cross Channel | England, England | Love, etc’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘A.L.B. | 1909–1992 | K.M.B. | 1915–1997’. [vi]: blank. vii-viii: contents. ix-xviii: preface. [1]: ‘One | An Englishman Abroad’. [2]: ‘[photo] | A typical Ultimate Peasant’. 3-16: text. [17]: ‘Two | Spending Their Deaths | on Holiday’. [18]: ‘[photo] | Three beers, one ashtray, three singers: (l to r) | Jacques Brel, Leó Ferré, George Brassens’. 19-33: text. [34]: blank. [35]: ‘Three | The Promises of Their Ordination’. [36]: ‘[photo] | Jean Seberg kisses Jean-Paul Belmondo | to advertise A bout de souffle’. 37-47: text. [48]: blank. [49]: ‘Four | The Land Without Brussels Sprouts’. [50]: ‘[recipe for tomato soup] | A simple recipe’. 51-62: text. [63]: ‘Five | Tour de France 1907’. [64]: ‘[photo] | The Pont du Gard: ‘a little stupid’, | according to Henry James’. 65-76: text. [77]: ‘Six | Tour de France 2000’. [78]: ‘[photo] | ‘To the memory of Tom Simpson, Olympic medallist, | World champion, British sporting ambassador, | died 13th July (Tour de France 1967)’’. 79-97: text. [98]: blank. [99]: ‘Seven | The Pouncer’. [100]: ‘[photo] | George Simenon with all his needs | (the maid is off camera), 1930s’. 101-108: text. [109]: ‘Eight | French Letters’. [110]: ‘[photo] | Not an Ultimate Peasant but a | sophisticated poet: Stéphane Mallarmé’. 111-144: text. [145]: ‘Nine | Flaubert’s | Death-Masks’. [146]: ‘[photo] | Flaubert’s death mask’. 147-170: text. [171]: ‘Ten | Not Drowning But | Waving: The Case of | Louise Colet’. [172]: ‘[photo] | Louise Colet in riding costume, | by Courbet’. 173-192: text. [193]: ‘Eleven | Drinking Ink’. [194]: ‘[photo] | Alphonse Karr in his garden at Saint-Raphaël’. 195-208: text. [209]: ‘Twelve | Two Moles’. [210]: ‘[photo] | Turgenev at forty: the age of renunciation’. 211-214: text. [215]: ‘Thirteen | Consolation v. | Desolation’. [216]: ‘[photo] | George Sand, by Nadar’. 217-234: text. [235]: ‘Fourteen | Tail-Flaying’. [236]: ‘[photo] | A bad sight for Flaubert: Prussians in the | studio of a Rouen photographer, 1871’. 237-249: text. [250]: blank. [251]: ‘Fifteen | The Cost of | Conscientious | Literature’. [252]: ‘[photo] | Caroline Commanville, | Flaubert’s niece’. 253-267: text. [268]: blank. [269]: ‘Sixteen | Faithful Betrayal’. [270]: ‘[photo] | Isabelle Huppert as Emma Bovary, ‘a victim who | does not behave as a victim’’. 271-287: text. [288]: blank. [289]: ‘Seventeen | Justin: A Small | Major Character’. [290]: ‘[photo] | J. B. at the tomb of G. F., Rouen, 1983’. 291-302: text. 303-304: acknowledgements. 307-318: index.

General description: As in the first UK edition published by Picador, excepting different review quotes to lower panel and rewritten promotional text to front flap.

Manş ötesi | Cross Channel (Ayrinti Yayinlari, 1999; Turkish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Manş Ötesi | Cross Channel. Istanbul: Ayrinti Yayinlari, 1999. Pp. 175 + [1]. 19.5 x 13 cm. Translated by Serdar Rifat Kıroğlu. (Turkish). 

Англия, Англия | England, England (ACT, 2000; Russian)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Англия, Англия | England, England. Moscow: ACT, 2000. Pp. 350 + [2]. 20.7 x 13.6 cm. Translated by С. Силаковой (S. Silakova). ISBN: 5170041608. (Russian).

England, England | Uncorrected Proof (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)


Notes on this edition: England, England. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Uncorrected Proof in blue wraps with black lettering. Publication information and the statement, ‘THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED PROOF’ on bottom of upper panel. (21.5 x 14 cm).

Publication date on the front cover states, ‘    May 1999’.


Another copy of this proof was issued with promotional material stapled inside both the front and back covers. The publication date on the cover includes the day written in ink as ’10 May 1999′, as pictured.

Something to Declare | Uncorrected Proof (Picador, 2002)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Something to Declare. London: Picador, 2002. 304 + [8]. 20.6 x 14.4 cm.

Uncorrected Proof of Julian Barnes’s essay collection Something to Declare. Published with color card wraps reproducing a painting by Howard Hodgkin with black and white lettering. ‘PICADOR UNCORRECTED BOUND PROOF’ in black at the top of the upper panel. Quote from Joanna Trollope on upper panel. Lower panel and spine are blue with white lettering.

Publication date listed as ’11/01/02′ with a provisional price of £7.99.

This is the first of two Picador proofs issued for this book. This color cover was followed by an uncorrected proof bound in white wrappers at a later date.

England, England (Mercure de France, 2000; French)


Notes on this edition: England, England. [Paris]: Mercure de France, 2000. Pp. 368.  20.5 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 9782715221307. (French).