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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Sense of an Ending. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Publishing, 2012. Pp. 189 + [3]. 22.1 x 14.5 cm. ISBN: 9781611733259. (Large Print edition).
Large print edition with dust jacket. Smooth board binding with imagery and text of jacket printed to covers, as shown. This example features a unique inscription from the author to his webmaster.
Notes on this edition: 太陽を見つめて | Staring at the Sun. Tokyo: 白水社 | Hakusuisha, 1992. Pp. 287 + [3]. 19.3 x 13.7 cm. Translated by 加藤光也 (Mitsuya Katō). ISBN: 4560044759. (Japanese).
A note on this edition: Julian Barnes. 10½ 章で書かれた世界の歴史 | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Tokyo: 白水社 | Hakusuisha, 1991. Pp. 401 + [3]. 19.4 x 13.6 cm. Translated by 丹治愛. ISBN: 4560044678. (Japanese).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. 文士厨房に入る | The Pedant in the Kitchen. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2010. Pp. 191 + [7]. 19.7 x 13.3 cm. Translated by 堤けいこ | Keiko Tsutsumi. ISBN: 9784622075370. (Japanese).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. 레몬 테이블 | The Lemon Table. 열린책들 | Open Books, 2008. Pp. 307 + [5]. 19.5 x 12.7 cm. Translated by 송은주. ISBN: 9788932908496. (Korean).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes [朱利安·巴恩斯]. 福楼拜的鹦鹉 | Flaubert’s Parrot. Nanjing: 译林出版社 | Yilin Press, 2016. Pp. 255 + [1]. 20.7 x 14.5 cm. Translated by 但汉松. ISBN: 9787544760720. (Chinese).
Features a promotional wrap around band, as shown.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Staring at the Sun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. Pp. 195 + [1]. 20.6 x 13.8 cm. Uncorrected Proof in brown, white and orange pictorial wraps. Image is similar to the final dust jacket. White lettering, except ‘UNCORRECTED PROOF’ in black along bottom.
Provisional U.K. publication date set for 18 September 1986, for a provisional price of £9.95.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Staring at the Sun. Groningen: Marlies Louwes, 1997. Pp. [12]. 11.7 x 18.5 cm.
Limited, letterpress edition of the opening section of Julian Barnes’s novel Staring at the Sun. This pamphlet features artwork by Marlies Louwes. The colophon states: ‘Typeset in Bembo and Printed in 40 copies on Zerkall-Bütten.’ Text reprinted with the author’s permission. Yellow paper cover.
Notes on this edition: First Canadian edition – Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. $24.00. The Canadian edition features a cut fore edge, while the nearly identical first American edition has an uncut fore edge.
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Title Page: Talking It Over | A NOVEL BY | JULIAN BARNES | [Knopf device] | ALFRED A. KNOPF NEW YORK · TORONTO | 1991
Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | Copyright © 1991 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American | Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada in 1991 by | Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, and simultaneously | in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. | Originally published in Great Britain by | Jonathan Cape Ltd., London. | Grateful acknowledgement is made to Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., for | permission to reprint excerpts from “Three Cigarettes in an Ash | Tray” by Eddie Miller and W. S. Stevenson, copyright © 1982 by | Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., and excerpts from “Walkin’ After | Midnight” by Alan Block and Don Hecht, copyright © 1956, | copyright renewed 1984 by Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. All rights | reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission. | Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data | Barnes, Julian | Talking it over | ISBN 0-394-22239-3 | 1. Title. | PR6052.A6657T34 1991 823’.914 C91-093984-5 | Manufactured in the United States of America | FIRST CANADIAN EDITION
Collation: 21.2 x 13.9 cm. Trimmed pages. Pp. [i-x, 1-4] 5-47 [48-52] 53-67 [68-70] 71-81 [82-84] 85-95 [96-98] 99-109 [110-112] 113-127 [128-132] 133-193 [194-198] 199-211 [212-214] 215-225 [226-228] 229-235 [236-238] 239-275 [276-278] [Note: no even page numbers were printed]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘ALSO BY JULIAN BARNES | A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters | Staring at the Sun | Flaubert’s Parrot | Before She Met Me | Metroland’. [iii]: ‘Talking It Over’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘to Pat’. [viii]: blank. [ix]: ‘He lies like an eye-witness. | RUSSIAN SAYING’. [x]: blank. [1]: ‘Talking It Over’. [2]: blank. [3]-275: text. [276-278]: blank.
General description: Binding 22.2 x 14.8 cm. Blue boards, black quarter binding silver blocked on spine. Silver stamped initials ‘JB’ to lower front cover and embossed Knopf devise to lower back cover. White endpapers. Dust jacket has black upper panel with multi-colored images of British currency, Patsy Cline, and map of Toulouse. Lettering in white (title) and black (author), with author lettering inset in silver rectangle. Lower panel and flaps are white with black lettering, except the titles of previous novels are in red italics. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Photograph of the author by Miriam Berkley located on back flap.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. A napba nézve | Staring at the Sun. Budapest: Ulpius-ház, 2002. Pp. 305 + [7]. 20 x 12.4 cm. Translated by Lukács Laura. ISBN: 9789639475052. (Hungarian).