Talking It Over | Uncorrected Proof (Jonathan Cape, 1991)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Pp. 273 + [1]. 21.6 x 13.7 cm.

Uncorrected Proof in stiff white card wrappers reproducing dust jacket illustration in black and white. Lettered in black, except for ‘UNCORRECTED PROOF’ in white along bottom of front cover. Issued with proof jacket that states ‘PROOF ONLY’ and provides provisional publication date of ’11 July 1991′ on back flap. This provisional date is also listed to the back cover of the proof along with a provisional price of £13.99.

İngiltere İngiltere’ye karşı | England, England (Ayrıntı, 2003; Turkish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. İngiltere İngiltere’ye karşı | England, EnglandIstanbul: Ayrinti Yayinlari, 2003. Pp. 286 + [2]. 19.4 x 12.9 cm. Translated by Serdar Rıfat Kırkoğlu. ISBN: 9789755393018. (Turkish).

Letters from London (Vintage Canada, 1995)


Notes on this edition: First Canadian edition – Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1995. $16.95.

Descriptive Bibliography:

Title Page: JULIAN BARNES | Letters | from | London | [Vintage Canada ‘sun’ device] | Vintage Canada | A Division of Random House of Canada

Copyright Page: Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. | Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, | a division of Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto, | and simultaneously in the United States by Vintage Books, | a division of Random House, Inc., New York. | All of the material in this work was originally published | in The New Yorker, in slightly different form. | Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission | to reprint previously published material: | EMI Music Publishing: Excerpt from “Taxman,” words and music by George Harrison, | copyright © 1966 by Northern Songs. All rights controlled and administered by EMI | Blackwood Music Inc., under license from ATV Music (BMI). All rights reserved. | International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission of EMI Music Publishing. | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.: Excerpt from “Bridge for the Living” from Collected Poems | by Philip Larkin, copyright © 1988, 1989 by the Estate of Philip Larkin; excerpts from | Mrs. Thatcher’s Minister by Alan Clark, copyright © 1993 by Alan Clark. Reprinted by | permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. HarperCollins Publishers: Selected excerpts | from The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher. Copyright © 1993 by Margaret | Thatcher. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. | Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | Letters from London | ISBN 0-394-22453-1 | 1. Great Britain—Politics and government—1979—   —Humor. | 2. Great Britain—Humor. I. Title. | PR6052.A6657L47  1995   824’.914  C95-930226-3 | BOOK DESIGN BY CATHRYN S. AISON | Manufactured in the United States of America | 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2 1

Collation: 19.9 x 12.9 cm. Pp. [i-vi] vii-xv [xvi, 1-2] 3-320. [i]: ‘JULIAN BARNES | Letters from London | Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England, in | 1946, was educated at Oxford University, and now | lives in London. He is the author of seven novels— | Metroland, Before She Met Me, Flaubert’s Parrot, Star- | ing at the Sun, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, I Talking It Over, and The Porcupine.’. [ii]: ‘Books by JULIAN BARNES | 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’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘to Jay and Helen’. [vi]: blank. vii-viii: contents. ix-xv: preface. [xvi]: blank. [1]: ‘Letters from London’. [2]: blank. 3-311: text. [312]: blank. 313-320: index.

General description: Binding 19.9 x 12.9 cm. As in A13(b), but with blurbs on lower panel from Jay McInerney, The Toronto Star, and The New York Review of Books.

En trekanthistorie | Talking It Over (Aschehoug, 1993; Norwegian)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. En trekanthistorie | Talking It Over. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1993. Pp. 242 [243] + [1]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Knut Ofstad. ISBN: 8259012014. (Norwegian).

Das Stachelschwein | The Porcupine (Haffmans Verlag, 1992; German)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Das Stachelschwein | The Porcupine.  Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1992. Pp. 153 [154] + [6]. 22 x 13.7 cm. Translated by Stefan Howald and Ingrid Heinrich-Jost. ISBN: 3251002155. (German).

England, England (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)


Notes on this edition: First American edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. $23.00.

Descriptive Bibliography:

Title Page: ENGLAND, ENGLAND | Julian Barnes | [Knopf device] | Alfred A. Knopf  New York  1999

Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. | Copyright © 1998 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American | Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States | by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. | Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. | www.randomhouse.com | Originally published in Great Britain by | Jonathan Cape, London, in 1998. | Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered | trademarks of Random House, Inc. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | England, England / Julian Barnes.—1st American ed. | p.  cm. | ISBN 0-375-40582-8 (alk. paper) | I. Title. | PR6052.A6657E54  1999 | 823’.914—dc21  98-46170 | CIP | Manufactured in the United States of America | First American Edition

Collation: 21.1 x 14.2 cm. Untrimmed pages. Pp. [i-viii, 1-2] 3-25 [26-28] 29-245 [246-248] 249-275 [276-280] [Note: no even page numbers were printed]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘ALSO BY JULIAN BARNES | 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 | Cross Channel’. [iii]: ‘ENGLAND, | ENGLAND’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘To Pat’. [viii]: blank. [1]: ‘1 : ENGLAND’. [2]: blank. 3-[26]: text. [27]: ‘2 : ENGLAND, | ENGLAND’. [28]-245: text. [246]: blank. [247]: ‘3 : ANGLIA’. [248]: blank. 249-275: text. [276]: blank. [277]: ‘A NOTE ON THE TYPE | THIS BOOK was set in Granjon, a type named in compliment | to Robert Granjon, a type cutter and printer active in Antwerp, | Lyons, Rome, and Paris from 1523 to 1590. Granjon, the boldest | and most original designer of his time, was one of the first to prac- | tice the trade of typefounder apart from that of printer. Linotype | Granjon was designed by George W. Jones, who based his draw- | ings on a face used by Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in his | beautiful French books. Granjon more closely resembles Gara- | mond’s own type than do any of the various modern faces that | bear his name. | Composed by Stratford Publishing Services, | Brattleboro, Vermont | Printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, | Harrisonburg, Virginia’. [278-280]: blank.

General description: Binding 22 x 14.7 cm. Cream boards, gold blocked on brown board spine. White endpapers. Dust jacket in cream and brown with white flaps. Lettering is white on upper and lower panels and black on flaps.  Jacket illustration by Bill Gregory with design by Carol Devine Carson. Photograph of the author by Jillian Edelstein located on back flap.


Letter to Booksellers Promoting England, EnglandAlfred A. Knopf sent letters to booksellers accompanied by a signed copy of Julian Barnes’s novel in an attempt to promote the sale of pre-signed copies.

Darüber reden | Talking It Over (Haffmans Verlag, 1997; German)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Darüber redenTalking It Over. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1992. Pp. 262 [263] + [9]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 325100204x. (German).

Ο ΣΚΑΝΤΖΌΧΟΙΡΟΣ | The Porcupine (Ekdoseis Psychogios, 1993; Greek)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Ο ΣΚΑΝΤΖΌΧΟΙΡΟΣ | The Porcupine. Athens: Ekdoseis Psychogios, 1993. Pp. 143 + [1]. 20.8 x 13.1 cm. Translated by Demosthenes Kourtovik  [ΔΗΜΟΣΘΕΝΗΣ ΚΟΥΡΤΟΒΙΚ]. ISBN: 9602740477. (Greek).

El puercoespín | The Porcupine (Editorial Anagrama, 1994; Spanish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. El puercoespín | The Porcupine. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1994. Pp. 174 + [2]. 20 x 14 cm. Translated by Francisco Javier Calzada. ISBN: 8433906429. (Spanish).

Pulse | Limited Edition (Jonathan Cape, 2011)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Pulse. London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. Pp. 228 + [4]. 22.2 x 14.3 cm. Case measures: 23 x 15 cm.

Bound in illustrated boards with a decorative slip case, this limited edition was signed by the author in an edition of 500 copies. Shown here are both an unopened copy and a copy inscribed by the author “out of series” [Note: The name of the dedicatee has been removed from the image.]