ארתור וג׳ורג׳ | Arthur & George (Zmora-Bitan, 2010; Hebrew)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. ארתור וג׳ורג׳ | Arthur & George. Tel-Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 2010. Pp. 469 + [3]. 20.9 x 13.5 cm. ISBN: 9789655176377. (Hebrew).

Arthur & George (London Review Bookshop, 2005; Limited Edition Leather)


Notes on this edition: In 2005, the London Review Bookshop began publishing limited editions in high quality bindings, and they chose Julian Barnes’s novel Arthur & George to inaugurate the series. Overseen by Andrew Stilwell, the London Review Bookshop’s limited editions typically feature two kinds of special bindings (cloth and leather) housed in finely constructed slip cases.

From the limitation page:

A special signed limited First Edition of Arthur & George, of which one hundred and twenty-five have been quarter-bound in cloth and numbered 1 to 125, and twenty-five quarter-bound in leather and numbered i to xxv.

The patterned boards are from a design by Enid Marx for The Curwen Press. The book has been bound and slipcased by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, Northants.

The edition pictured above is number xiv of xxv, bound in quarter leather. The book itself measures 24 x 15.7 cm. The slipcase measures 24.9 x 16.9 cm.

The Guardian briefly discussed the new limited edition series on 2 July 2005.

Arthur & George (London Review Bookshop, 2005; Limited Edition Cloth)


Notes on this edition: In 2005, the London Review Bookshop began publishing limited editions in high quality bindings, and they chose Julian Barnes’s novel Arthur & George to inaugurate the series. Overseen by Andrew Stilwell, the London Review Bookshop’s limited editions typically feature two kinds of special bindings (cloth and leather) housed in finely constructed slip cases.

From the limitation page:

A special signed limited First Edition of Arthur & George, of which one hundred and twenty-five have been quarter-bound in cloth and numbered 1 to 125, and twenty-five quarter-bound in leather and numbered i to xxv.

The patterned boards are from a design by Enid Marx for The Curwen Press. The book has been bound and slipcased by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, Northants.

The edition pictured above is number 43 of 125, bound in quarter cloth. The book itself measures 24 x 15.7 cm. The slipcase measures 24.9 x 16.9 cm.

The Guardian briefly discussed the new limited edition series on 2 July 2005.

Arthur & George (Vintage Canada, 2012)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes .Arthur & George. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2012. Pp. 430 + [6]. 20.3 x 13.1 cm. ISBN: 9780307363220.

In 2012, Random House Canada’s three paperback divisions (Anchor Canada, Vintage Canada, and Emblem Editions) joined efforts to publish a series of colorful paperback books. Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George was selected for the series and published in blue with text edges tinted blue to match, as pictured.

You may read more about the series and view images of books on display at “Random House of Canada Taps into Trend of Books Doubling as Decor” (Quill & Quire, 18 October 2012).