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Notes on this edition: The Bedside Guardian, 2016. Edited by Claire Armitstead. London: Guardian Books, 2016. Pp. 302. 20.3 x 13.3 cm. ISBN: 9781783561247.
Julian Barnes’s essay “So we’re all Foxes now? I’ve been one for 65 years” about the Leicester City Football Club was published on pp. 177-181. Barnes’s essay was originally published in The Guardian on 6 May 2016.
Notes on this edition: Kochen und kochen lassen. Text selection by Daniel Kampa. Hamburg: Atlantik, 2016. Pp. 218 [219] + [1]. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. ISBN: 9783455370379. (German).
Julian Barnes contributes “Vorsicht: Pedant am Werk” (pp. 37-42). Other authors collected include Ian McEwan, Douglas Adams, David Sedaris, George Orwell, Alphonse Daudet, and numerous others.
Illustrations by Nikolaus Heidelbach.
Notes on this edition: Die Briefe an Louise Colet | The Letters of Louise Colet. Translated from the French and with notes by Cornelia Hasting. Zürich: Haffmans, 1995. Pp. 991 [992]. 18.6 x 11.5 cm. Julian Barnes’s foreword translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251201875. (German).
Julian Barnes’s foreword appears on pp. 7-[16].
Notes on this edition: In dieser einen stillen Nacht: Geschichten und Gedichte zur Weihnachtszeit. Edited by Volker Fabricius. Düsseldorf: Patmos, 2003. Pp. 208 + [2]. 20.9 x 12.7 cm. ISBN: 3491450268. (German).
Publishes Dan Kavanagh’s short story “The 50p Santa” as “Der 50-Pfennig-Weihnachtsmann” pp. 168-177.
Notes on this edition: Strandboek. Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Atlas, 1993. Pp. 265. 20 x 12.4 cm. (Dutch).
A collection of short stories, including Julian Barnes’s “Dragons”. Translated as “Dragonders”, the story appears on pages 7-22.
No translator or editor listed to the title page or copyright page.
Notes on this edition: Shakespeare Prize 1937-2006. Compiled by Jürgen Schlaeger. Trier: WVT: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. Pp. 339 + [1]. 24 x 17 cm.
Reprints the lectures given by award recipients at the annual Shakespeare Prize ceremony. Julian Barnes’s lecture and photographs appear on pp. 206-213. The volume also features numerous other authors, including Ian McEwan (pp. 250-259).
Notes on this edition: Lifelines: An Anthology of Poems Chosen by Famous People. Edited by Niall MacMonagle. London: Penguin Books, 1993. Pp. 222. 19.6 x 12.8 cm. With a foreword by Seamus Heaney.
Julian Barnes selects and discusses A. E. Housman’s “Last Poems, XII” (pp. 150-51).
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. La France en automobile | A Motor-Flight Through France. Paris: Mercure de France/Folio, 2017. Pp. 208 [209] + [15]. 17.8 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Jean Pavans. ISBN: 9782072710926. (French).
Preface by Julian Barnes, originally written in 1995, but translated into French for the Mercure de France edition (2015).
Notes on this edition: Voltaire. Candide, or, Optimism. London: Folio Society, 2016. Pp. 202. 26.6 x 22.6 cm.
Translated by Tobias Smollett. Introduction by Julian Barnes. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Leather edition signed by Quentin Blake in an edition of 25 copies (not for sale to the public).
The limitation page states:
“THIS EDITION OF CANDIDE HAS BEEN TYPESET IN GARAMOND AT THE FOLIO SOCIETY, AND PRINTED ON MODIGLIANI PAPER BY GRAMMLICH, PLIEZHAUSEN, GERMANY. THE BINDING BY BELTZ FINE BOOKS, BAD LANGENSALZA, GERMANY, IS IN FULL NIGERIAN GOATSKIN LEATHER BLOCKED WITH A DESIGN BY THE ARTIST. THE EDITION IS LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES FOR SALE TO MEMBERS OF THE FOLIO SOCIETY, AND 25 LETTERED COPIES WHICH ARE NOT FOR SALE.”
Notes on this edition: Zur Erinnerung an Ingrid Heinrich-Jost | In Memory of Ingrid Heinrich-Jost. Privately Printed, circa 1994.
Privately printed memorial pamphlet in honor of Ingrid Heinrich-Jost. The pamphlet includes a letter from Julian Barnes to her husband Gerd Haffmans (Julian’s German publisher). Ingrid Heinrich-Jost co-translated Julian Barnes’s Das Stachelschwein [The Porcupine] (1992).