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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: 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. 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.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. El loro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama/Compactos, 1997. Pp. 229 + [3]. 18.5 x 12 cm. Translated by Antonio Mauri. ISBN: 9788433920904 (Spanish)
Editorial Anagrama issued El loro de Flaubert in a compact edition (Compactos 86). The book pictured is the 3rd printing (“Tercera edición”) published in 1997.
Also pictured (below) is the 5th printing (“Quinta edición”), published in September 2001 and the 11th printing published in 2016.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Papagalul lui Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Bucureşti: Nemira Grup Editorial, 2006. Pp. 251 [252] + [4]. 17.8 x 10.6 cm. Translated by Virgil Stanciu. ISBN: 9735698455 (Romania).
An earlier Romanian edition was published by Editura Univers in 1997.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Попугай Флобера | Flaubert’s Parrot. Moscow: ACT, 2005. Pp. 253 [254] + [2]. 20.6 x 13.4 cm. Translated by Т. Шинкарь. ISBN: 5170104375. (Russian).
Notes on this edition: Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 190. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540588.
Vintage Book reissued their standard paperback edition of Flaubert’s Parrot as part of their “Vintage” author series. The front cover states in the upper-right corner “Vintage Barnes”.
Notes about this edition: Flaubert’s Parrot. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Pp. 190. 21.2 x 14 cm. Paperbound with setting and cover illustration as in the first U.S. hardback edition.
This paperback edition of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot appears nearly identical to the first edition hardback published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985. The title pages the copyright pages are identical, except that this paperback edition does not state “First American Edition” and does not include information about where the book was printed, as in the hardback edition. The ISBN listed on the copyright page is for the hardback edition. This paperback edition contains no marking indicating it is an American book club edition, but this is a likely explanation.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. התוכי של פלובר | Flaubert’s Parrot. Tel-Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 1987. Pp. 188 + [4]. 21.5 x 14 cm. Translated by כרמית גיא. (Hebrew).
The Hebrew edition was republished in 2005.