Notes on this edition: ここだけの話 [Kokodake no hanashi] | Talking It Over. 東京 [Tokyo]: 白水社, 1993. Pp. 317 + [2]. 19.4 x 13.8 cm. Translated by 斎藤 [Saitō Yoshifumi]. ISBN: 4560044848. (Japanese).
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Hablando del asunto | Talking It Over (Editorial Anagrama, 1993; Spanish)
Notes on this edition: Hablando del asunto | Talking It Over. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1993. Pp. 237 + [3]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Maribel de Juan. ISBN: 8433911864. (Spanish).
Later printings also published. The copy below states it is the fourth edition “Cuarta edición” published in February 1996. The three previous editions were published in 1993.
Как все было | Talking It Over (Eksmo, 2013; Russian)
Notes on this edition: Как все было | Talking It Over. Moscow: Eksmo, 2013. Pp. 315 + [5]. 20.7 x 13.2 cm. Translated by И. М. Бернштейн (I. M. Bernstein). ISBN: 9785699636655. (Russian).
Talking It Over (Jonathan Cape, 1991)
Notes on this edition: First edition – London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. £13.99. Print run: 24,000.
Descriptive Bibliography:
Title Page: Talking It Over | Julian Barnes | [Jonathan Cape device] | JONATHAN CAPE | LONDON
Copyright Page: First published 1991 | © Julian Barnes 1991 | Jonathan Cape, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA | Julian Barnes has asserted his right | under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 | to be identified as the author of this work | ‘Walking After Midnight’ (Hecht/Block) | © Acuff-Rose Opryland Music Ltd | ‘Two Cigarettes in an Ashtray’ (Miller/Stevenson) | © Acuff-Rose Opryland Music Ltd | International copyright secured. All rights reserved. | Reproduced by permission of Warner Chappell Music Ltd | A CIP catalogue record for this book | is available from the British Library | ISBN 0-224-03157-0 | Phototypeset by Falcon Graphic Art Ltd | Printed in Great Britain by | Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent
Collation: 21.5 x 13.7 cm. Pp. [i-x] 1-273 [274-278]. [i-ii]: blank. [iii]: ‘Talking It Over’. [iv]: ‘by the same author | METROLAND | BEFORE SHE MET ME | FLAUBERT’S PARROT | STARING AT THE SUN | A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10½ CHAPTERS’. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘to Pat’. [viii]: blank. [ix]: ‘He lies like an eye-witness | Russian saying’. [x]: blank. 1-273: text. [274-278]: blank.
General description: Binding 22.2 x 14.4 cm. Tan boards, gold blocked on spine. Sky blue endpapers. Tan dust jacket with color illustration on upper panel in purple, red, blue, green, and yellow. Lettered in black on upper and lower panel. Jacket illustration by Fraser Taylor. Author photograph by Jane Bown on back flap.
Talking It Over | Uncorrected Proof (Jonathan Cape, 1991)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Pp. 273 + [1]. 21.6 x 13.7 cm.
Uncorrected Proof in stiff white card wrappers reproducing dust jacket illustration in black and white. Lettered in black, except for ‘UNCORRECTED PROOF’ in white along bottom of front cover. Issued with proof jacket that states ‘PROOF ONLY’ and provides provisional publication date of ’11 July 1991′ on back flap. This provisional date is also listed to the back cover of the proof along with a provisional price of £13.99.
En trekanthistorie | Talking It Over (Aschehoug, 1993; Norwegian)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. En trekanthistorie | Talking It Over. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1993. Pp. 242 [243] + [1]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Knut Ofstad. ISBN: 8259012014. (Norwegian).
Darüber reden | Talking It Over (Haffmans Verlag, 1997; German)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Darüber reden | Talking It Over. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1992. Pp. 262 [263] + [9]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 325100204x. (German).
Puhumalla Paras | Talking It Over (WSOY, 1992; Finnish)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Puhumalla paras. Porvoo · Helsinki · Juva: WSOY, 1992. Pp. 297 [298] + [10]. 20.2 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Kristiina Drews. ISBN: 9510183393. (Finnish).
Note: This specimen’s dust jacket is sun-faded at the spine.
Amore, ecc. | Talking It Over (Einaudi, 1998; Italian)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Amore, ecc. | Talking It Over. Torino: Einaudi, 1998. Pp. 266 + [18]. 19.4 x 11.9 cm. Translated by Riccardo Mainardi. ISBN: 9788806143053. (Italian).
Stated to the copyright page: “Questo volume è apparso nel 1992 presso l’editore Rizzoli con il titolo Parliamone. [This volume appeared in 1992 by the publisher Rizzoli under the title Parliamone.] This edition is also marked as “Einaudi Tascabili. Letteratura 568”.
Cover features art by George Underwood.
Visit Einaudi’s author page for Julian Barnes here: https://www.einaudi.it/autori/julian-barnes/
Trois | Talking It Over (Editura Nemira, 2006; Romanian)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Trois | Talking It Over. Bucharest: Nemira, 2006. Pp. 284 [285] + [3] . 17.8 x 10.6 cm. Translated by Cornelia Bucur. ISBN: 9789735698355. (Romanian).