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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “EL SENTIDO DE UN FINAL.” Primeras páginas: Los escritores del HAY en sus propias palabras, Arcadia: Periodismo Cultural, 2013.
The opening passage from Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending is reprinted in Spanish on p. 4.
Notes on this item: Postcard promoting Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot (Jonathan Cape, 1984). The postcard features a black and white reproduction of David Hockney’s Felicité Sleeping.
Notes on this item: Postcard promoting the January/February 2012 edition of Intelligent Life featuring Julian Barnes’s essay on Sibelius. Photo of Julian Barnes by Emma Hardy.
Notes on this item: Advertisement Broadside for The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Produced by Alfred A. Knopf in 2011, the advertisement measures 17 x 11 inches.
The advertisement includes numerous blurbs of praise and claims, “Already in its 4TH PRINTING”.
Notes on this item: Advertisement Broadside for Vom Ende einer Geschichte published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2011. Double sided broadside advertisement mesaures 29.5 x 20.1 cm.
Notes on this edition: Gift Bag distributed by Vintage to its employees at Christmas in 2012. The bag features ornamental rules designed in the shape of a Christmas tree to both sides. The bags contained three books published by Vintage or Jonathan Cape: a copy of Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (Vintage Books, 2010), Julian Barnes’s A Life with Books (Jonathan Cape, 2012), and his collection of essays Through the Window (Vintage Books, 2012). This bag was sent by Barnes to his bibliographer with a special inscription from the author.
Notes on this item: Promotional placard advertising Julian Barnes’s novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (43 x 33 cm.).
This advertisement was intended to stand on display in a book store upon the publication of the novel by Alfred A. Knopf in 1989. The advertisement was acquired by a book store employee who kept it in storage for 20+ years before selling it.
Julian Barnes states that he used to have a copy of this placard in his study, but it remains unclear exactly how many placards were produced for promotional purposes.
Notes on this piece: Volker Kriegel. “The Barnes Collection”.
Work of art by Volker Kriegel created for Julian Barnes’s German publisher Haffmans Verlag to celebrate the author’s fiftieth birthday. The image shows Barnes pointing to framed works of art, each a dust cover of his various German editions published by Haffmans.
Inscribed by Volker Kriegel: “THE BARNES COLLECTION. — FOR JULIAN B. WITH HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON THE FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY. FROM HAFFMANS VERLAG.” [Signed and dated “JAN/96”]
Notes on this piece: Volker Kriegel. Artwork featured on the cover of The Truth about Dogs (1988), translated and with an introduction by Julian Barnes. This work of art is framed and inscribed by Kriegel to Julian Barnes:
“HUNDE SIND SENTIMENTAL – FOR JULIAN BARNES WITH MANY THANKS | FOR THE MARVELLOUS INTRODUCTION TO | ‘THE TRUTH ABOUT DOGS'”
Also inscribed by Liz Calder, Barnes’s editor: “– and love from Liz x | January 1989”
Notes on this piece: Volker Kriegel. Artwork featured on the cover of Flauberts Papagei (1987).
This work of art is framed and inscribed by Kriegel to Julian Barnes, dated “8/87”.