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Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. Im Land der Schmerzen | In the Land of Pain. Alexander Verlag Berlin, 2022. Pp. 124. 21.7 x 11.6 cm. ISBN: 9783895815713. French passages translated by Dirk Hemjeoltmanns and English text translated by Bernhard Liesen. (German).
Includes Julian Barnes’s introduction, afterword, and notes.
The copyright page contains an error to the ISBN by transposing “978” to “987”. The correct ISBN is printed to the back cover.
Notes on this edition: First English edition – London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. £10.00.
(Translation of La Doulou by Alphonse Daudet).
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Title Page: ALPHONSE DAUDET | In the Land of Pain | EDITED AND TRANSLATED | BY | JULIAN BARNES | [Jonathan Cape device] | JONATHAN CAPE | LONDON
Copyright Page: Published by Jonathan Cape 2002 | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 | Translation, introduction and notes copyright © Julian Barnes 2002 | Julian Barnes has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs | and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the translator and editor | of this work | This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, | by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, | or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior | consent in any form of binding or cover other than that | in which it is published and without a similar condition | including this condition being imposed on the | subsequent purchaser | First published in Great Britain in 2002 by Jonathan Cape | Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA | The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 | www.randomhouse. co.uk | A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library | ISBN 0-224-06267-0 | Typeset by Palimpsest Book Production Limited, Polmont, Stirlingshire | Printed and bound in Great Britain by | Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn
Collation: 18.4 x 12.9 cm. Pp. [i-iv] v-xv [xvi] [1-2] 3-49 [50-52] 53-87 [88-96]. [i]: ‘In the Land of Pain’. [ii]: ‘[photo] | Daudet and his wife Julia at Champrosay, c. 1892.’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v-xv]: introduction. [xvi]: blank. [1]: ‘I’. [2]: blank. 3-49: text. [50]: blank. [51]: ‘II’. [52]: blank. 53-87: text. [88-96]: blank.
General description: Binding 19.1 x 13.5 cm. Black boards, gold blocked on spine. Burgundy endpapers. Colored dust jacket lettered in cream, purple, dark red, black and white. Features an image of a wasp on a medicinal bottle to both upper and lower panels. Afterword titled ‘A Note on Syphilis’ by Julian Barnes, pp. 82-87.
Note on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. En la tierra del dolor | In the Land of Pain Chile: El Faro, 2017. Pp. 113 + [2]. 21 x 14.2 cm. ISBN: 9789563930474. Translated by Cristóbal Pérez Barra. (Spanish).
This Chilean edition was limited to 100 copies: 90 copies numbered 1-90 and 10 copies signed by Julian Barnes and numbered I-X.
The book was reviewed in El Mercurio.
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. In the Land of Pain. Edited and translated by Julian Barnes. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Pp. [xvi] + 87 + [1].
Unbound Proof printed on one side only. Sheets measure 29.7 x 21 cm (A4). Dust jacket proof also featured.
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. Im Land der Schmerzen | In the Land of Pain. Bremen: Manholt, 2004. Pp. 102. 20.4 x 13 cm. ISBN: 3924903034. (German).
Julian Barnes’s introduction, afterword, and notes translated from the English by Bernhard Liesen. Daudet’s text translated from the French by Dirk Hemjeoltmanns.
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. בארץ המכאוב | In the Land of Pain. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Julian Barnes. Binyamina: Nahar Books, 2006. Pp. 89 + [7]. 20 x 11.6 cm. Translated by מיכה פרנקל (Micha Frenkel). ISBN: 9657303095. (Hebrew).
Inscribed to Julian Barnes by Reuven Miran.
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. In the Land of Pain. London: Vintage, 2018. Pp. 87 + [7]. 19.8 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9781784873455.
Edited and translated by Julian Barnes. Includes an introduction by Barnes (p. v-xv) and “A Note on Syphilis” (p. 82-87).
Notes on this edition: Volker Kriegel. The Truth about Dogs. London: Bloomsbury, 1990. Pp. 121 + [7]. 15.1 x 9.2 cm. Translated and introduced by Julian Barnes. Introduction on pages 7-10.
Notes on this edition: First American edition – New York: Harper & Row, 1988. $7.95. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto.
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Title Page: THE TRUTH ABOUT DOGS | Volker Kriegel | Translated and introduced by | Julian Barnes | [cartoon by Kriegel] | [Harper & Row device] | 1817 | HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS, New York | Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London | Mexico City, São Paulo, Sydney
Copyright Page: Copyright © 1986 | by Haffmans Verlag | Introduction and translation | © 1988 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved. | Printed in Great Britain by | Butler and Tanner Ltd, Frome | No part of this book may be used or | reproduced in any manner whatsoever | without written permission except in | the case of brief quotations embodied in | critical articles and reviews. | For information address | Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., | 10 East 53rd Street | New York, New York 10022 | Published simultaneously in Canada by | Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, | Toronto | First U.S. Edition | ISBN 0-06-016038-1 | 88 89 90 91 92 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Collation: 15.3 x 9.2 cm. Collation appears identical to the first British edition.
General description: Appears identical to the first British edition, but with no publisher name to upper panel of jacket.
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. En la tierra del dolor | In the Land of Pain. Barcelona: Alba Editorial, 2003. Pp. 102 + [2]. 21.6 x 14.5 cm. Translated by María Teresa Gallego Urrutia and Jesús Zulaika Goikoetxea. ISBN: 8484281965. (Spanish).
Julian Barnes’s introduction appears on pp. 9-19.