“Playing Chess with Arthur Koestler” | Encounters (Yale University Press, 1989)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Playing Chess with Arthur Koestler” in Encounters. Edited by Kai Erikson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. 163 + [3]. 24.1 x 16 cm. ISBN: 0300046626.

Barnes’s essay appears on pp. 23-34.

The Modern Library (Picador, 1999)


Notes on this edition: Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín. The Modern Library: The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950. London: Picador, 1999. Pp. xxviii. 259 + [1]. 22.1 x 14 cm. ISBN: 0330341820. £12.99.

Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot is featured on p. 14.

Das schöne schräge Weihnachtsbuch (Haffmans Verlag, 2000; German)


Notes on this edition: Dan Kavanagh. “Der 50-Pfennig-Weihnachtsmann.” Selected by Gerd Haffmans. Das schöne schräge Weihnachtsbuch. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 2000. Pp. 250 [251] + [5]. 19 x 14.1 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251004913. (German).

Dan Kavanagh’s short story printed on pp. 173-[183].

The Man Booker Prize Poster, 2005


Notes on this item: Poster promoting The Man Booker Prize Poster for 2005. Approximately 50 x 35.5 cm. The poster features the shortlisted novels, including Julian Barnes’s novel Arthur & George.

Areté Magazine | “I Remember” (Issue 23: Summer/Autumn 2007)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “I Remember.” Areté Magazine, Issue 23 (Summer/Autumn 2007): [55]-58. Areté Magazine is edited by Craig Raine.

Julian Barnes offers remembrances on death, funerals, and grief.

Areté Magazine | “Our Bold” (Issue 13: Winter 2003)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes [unsigned]. “Our Bold.” Areté Magazine, Issue 13 (Winter 2003): [154]-[155]. Areté Magazine is edited by Craig Raine.

Julian Barnes contributes an anonymous entry under the magazine’s recurring heading “Our Bold”.

Areté Magazine | “In the Land of Pain” (Issue 8: Spring/Summer 2002)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes and Alphonse Daudet. “In the Land of Pain.” Areté Magazine, Issue 8 (Spring/Summer 2002): [5]-15. Barnes’s contributes his “A Note on Syphilis” from his translation of Alphonse Daudet’s In the Land of Pain. Areté Magazine is edited by Craig Raine.

England, England | Promotional Material (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)


Notes on this item: Folder from Alfred A. Knopf containing loose sheets of paper (promotional material) announcing Julian Barnes’s novel England, England. Letter accompanying the promotional material is not dated.

The Borzoi Reader (Alfred A. Knopf, Fall 1991)


Notes on this edition: The Borzoi Reader. Alfred A. Knopf, Fall 1991.

Complimentary promotional item containing information and an excerpt from Julian Barnes’s novel Talking It Over published by Alfred A. Knopf. The reader is pp. 48 with Barnes’s excerpt appearing on pages 4-5.

The Only Story (W. F. Howes, 2018; Audiobook)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Only Story. Leicester: W. F. Howes, 2018. Audiobook on 7 audio discs. Read by Guy Mott. Approximately 7 hours, 15 minutes. ISBN: 9781510098497.

Unabridged audiobook; “Whole Story Audiobooks.”