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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Evermore. Penguin, 1996. 26 sheets stapled to two (2) blue covers. 21 x 29.8 cm. Pictures by Howard Hodgkin not included in the page proofs.
Two sets of page proofs, one featuring corrections by Julian Barnes, for the Penguin edition published the same year (1996).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Verzamelde verhalen | Collected Stories. Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Atlas Contact, 2021. Pp. 668 + [4]. 21.6 x 14.5 cm. Translated by Else Hoog, Jelle Noorman, and Ronald Vlek. ISBN: 9789025471415. (Dutch).
This collection of short stories is dedicated to Barnes’s former Dutch publisher. The collection gathers all of Barnes’s short stories from Cross Channel [except “Brambilla”], The Lemon Table, and Pulse, as well as his story “Homage to Hemingway”.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Evermore.” The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories. Edited by Daniel Halpern. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. Pp. 667 + [5]. 23.3 x 15.3 cm. ISBN: 9780140296389.
Julian Barnes’s short story “Evermore” appears on pp. 73-84.
Notes on this edition: Promotional pamphlet promoting the limited edition of Julian Barnes’s Evermore published by Palawan Press in 1996. The limited edition featured art work by Howard Hodgkin. Palawan Press published two limited editions, one limited to 150 copies and one limited to 50 copies.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Evermore.” The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories. Edited by Daniel Halpern. New York: Viking, 1999. Pp. 667 + [5]. 24.2 x 16.4 cm. ISBN: 0670887617.
Julian Barnes’s short story “Evermore” appears on pp. 73-84.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Cross Channel. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 211 + [5]. 19.7 x 121.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540151.
In 2009, Julian Barnes changed paperback publishers from Picador to Vintage Books.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Cross Channel. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 211 + [3]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 0330349112.
Picador reissued their edition of Cross Channel with new cover art at the same time they reissued Barnes’s other books. While the copyright page does not state the date, the rejacketed editions were issued in 2005. This printing is the 10th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Cross Channel. New York: Vintage International, 1997. Pp. 211 + [1]. 20.3 x 13.1 cm. ISBN: 067976755X.
First U.S. paperback edition of Julian Barnes’s first collection of short stories.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Cross Channel. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 211 + [5]. 19.7 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780099540151.
The copyright page states the book is a 5th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.
Notes on this edition: Cross Channel. Oxford: ISIS, 1996. Pp. 207 + [9]. 24 x 16 cm. ISBN: 075315188x.
Large Print edition of Julian Barnes’s first collection of short stories.