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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Nothing to Be Frightened Of. New York: Vintage International, 2008. Pp. 243 [244] + [2]. 20.3 x 13 cm. ISBN: 9780307389985. $15.00.
First edition U.S. paperback of Julian Barnes’s Nothing to Be Frightened Of. Cover design by Megan Wilson.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. История на света в 10 ½ глави | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Sofia: Obsidian, 2001. Pp. 341 [343] +[1]. 20 x 12.7 cm. Translated by Dimitrina Kondeva and Zornitsa Dimova. ISBN: 9548240904. (Bulgarian).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Metroland. Bucureşti: Humanitas, 2004. Pp. 213 + [3]. 20 x 13 cm. Translated by Mihai Moroiu. ISBN: 9735007835. (Romanian)
Paper cover with red promotional band, as pictured.
Notes on this edition: フロベールの鸚鵡 | Flaubert’s Parrot. Tokyo: 白水社 [Hakusuisha], 1993. Pp. 294 + [2]. 17.6 x 11.2 cm. Translated by 斎藤 [Saitō Yoshifumi]. ISBN: 9784560071021. (Japanese).
Paper cream cover covered in white dust wrapper. Part of series: 白水Uブックス ; 102. 海外小說の誘惑.
Notes on this edition: Metroland. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1989. Pp. 231 [232] + [8]. 18 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251011286
Cover art by Volker Kriegel. Marked as “Haffmans-Taschenbuch 128”.
The copy pictured above has a bookseller’s inventory/price sticker on the lower back cover that was not present at the time of publication.
The copy below is the second printing, as indicated by the publisher’s slip inserted into the inside cover. The publisher’s slip is unique to this copy, as it is Julian Barnes’s personal copy.
Notes on this edition: Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Picador, 1985. Pp. 190 + [2]. 19.6 x 13 cm. £3.95. ISBN: 0330289764.
The book pictured is an 11th printing with a number line on the copyright page reading: “19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11”
The book below is the 10th printing with a number line on the copyright page reading: “19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10”
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Vintage Books, 2012. Pp. 190 + [2]. 19.6 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540083.
Vintage issued the paperback edition of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot with an updated cover following the success of Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending in 2011. The cover lettering echoes the lettering on the jacket of the Jonathan Cape edition of the Man Booker Prize winning novel. Both covers were designed by Suzanne Dean. The edition pictured is a fifth printing with the number sequence on the copyright page: “6 8 10 9 7 5”.
Below is an example of the 14th printing of the same Vintage Books edition:
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. England, England. London: Vintage Books, 2012. Pp. 266. 19.6 x 12.7 cm. ISBN: 9780099526544.
Vintage issued the paperback edition of Julian Barnes’s England, England with an updated cover following the success of Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending in 2011. The cover lettering echoes the lettering on the jacket of the Jonathan Cape edition of the Man Booker Prize winning novel. Both covers were designed by Suzanne Dean. The edition pictured is a sixth printing with the number sequence on the copyright page: “6 8 10 9 7”.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Arthur & George. Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Uitgeverij Atlas, 2006. Pp. 479 [480]. 22.9 x 15 cm. Translated by Frans van der Wiel. ISBN: 9789045012049.
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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. O Papagaio de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Lisboa: Quetzal Editores (Círculo de Leitores), 1988. Pp. 225 + [7]. 23 x 12.8 cm. Translated by Ana Maria Amador. (Portuguese – Portugal).
A later edition of this translations was published as O Papagaio de Flaubert (Quetzal Editores, 2010). Translated by Ana Maria Amador with revisions by Carlos Pinheiro.