Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Only Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Pp. 253 + [9]. 19 x 13 cm.
“Advanced Reader’s Edition” / Advanced proof published in paperback covers.
Tag: Advance Review Copy
Der Lärm der Zeit | The Noise of Time (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2017; German)
Notes on this edition: Der Lärm der Zeit | The Noise of Time. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2017. Pp. 244 [245] + [11]. 19.3 x 12.1 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 9783462048889. (German).
The copy presented below is an advance copy with the following printed to the title page: “Unverkäufliches, unkorrigiertes Abeitsexemplar Sperrfrist: Bitted nicht vor dem 16.02.2017 besprechen.” The collation differs from the first German edition, excluding the advertisements at the end of the novel: Pp. 244 [245] + [1].
Staring at the Sun (Random House Canada, 1987; Advance Review Copy)
Notes on this edition: Staring at the Sun. Toronto: Random House Canada, 1987. Pp. 200.
This Advance Review Copy is identical to the First Canadian Edition, except for the stamps to the inside cover and front endsheets. This particular edition is inscribed by Julian Barnes to Greg Gatenby, former Artistic Director of the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront in Toronto. Barnes’s inscription reads: “To Greg | (who didn’t even pay | money for this) | Julian Barnes | [line] | Toronto, April 1987”. Gatenby’s signature and date are also on the endsheet.
The book is stamped as a review copy, and a review notice is loosely inserted in to the book.
England, England (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
Notes on this edition: First American edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. $23.00.
Descriptive Bibliography:
Title Page: ENGLAND, ENGLAND | Julian Barnes | [Knopf device] | Alfred A. Knopf New York 1999
Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. | Copyright © 1998 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American | Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States | by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. | Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. | www.randomhouse.com | Originally published in Great Britain by | Jonathan Cape, London, in 1998. | Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered | trademarks of Random House, Inc. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | England, England / Julian Barnes.—1st American ed. | p. cm. | ISBN 0-375-40582-8 (alk. paper) | I. Title. | PR6052.A6657E54 1999 | 823’.914—dc21 98-46170 | CIP | Manufactured in the United States of America | First American Edition
Collation: 21.1 x 14.2 cm. Untrimmed pages. Pp. [i-viii, 1-2] 3-25 [26-28] 29-245 [246-248] 249-275 [276-280] [Note: no even page numbers were printed]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘ALSO BY JULIAN BARNES | Metroland | Before She Met Me | Flaubert’s Parrot | Staring at the Sun | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters | Talking It Over | The Porcupine | Letters from London | Cross Channel’. [iii]: ‘ENGLAND, | ENGLAND’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘To Pat’. [viii]: blank. [1]: ‘1 : ENGLAND’. [2]: blank. 3-[26]: text. [27]: ‘2 : ENGLAND, | ENGLAND’. [28]-245: text. [246]: blank. [247]: ‘3 : ANGLIA’. [248]: blank. 249-275: text. [276]: blank. [277]: ‘A NOTE ON THE TYPE | THIS BOOK was set in Granjon, a type named in compliment | to Robert Granjon, a type cutter and printer active in Antwerp, | Lyons, Rome, and Paris from 1523 to 1590. Granjon, the boldest | and most original designer of his time, was one of the first to prac- | tice the trade of typefounder apart from that of printer. Linotype | Granjon was designed by George W. Jones, who based his draw- | ings on a face used by Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in his | beautiful French books. Granjon more closely resembles Gara- | mond’s own type than do any of the various modern faces that | bear his name. | Composed by Stratford Publishing Services, | Brattleboro, Vermont | Printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, | Harrisonburg, Virginia’. [278-280]: blank.
General description: Binding 22 x 14.7 cm. Cream boards, gold blocked on brown board spine. White endpapers. Dust jacket in cream and brown with white flaps. Lettering is white on upper and lower panels and black on flaps. Jacket illustration by Bill Gregory with design by Carol Devine Carson. Photograph of the author by Jillian Edelstein located on back flap.
LEFT: Letter to Booksellers Promoting England, England: Alfred A. Knopf sent letters to booksellers accompanied by a signed copy of Julian Barnes’s novel in an attempt to promote the sale of pre-signed copies.
RIGHT: Advance Review Copy Slip included in select copies of the first edition and distributed to reviewers prior to publication.
The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “A Self-Possessed Woman.” The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. Pp. 195 + [1]. 20.5 x 13.2 cm. ISBN: 0224011952.
Julian Barnes’s short story appears on pp. 132-149.
From a competition judged by Kingsley Amis, Patricia Highsmith and Christopher Lee. The Times sponsored the competition in conjunction with Jonathan Cape.
This constitutes Julian Barnes’s first book publication, as it was published five years before his first novel Metroland (Jonathan Cape, 1980). The book was published in hardback with dark green dust jacket. The top of the text block is stained yellow.
This edition was followed by a paperback edition (Corgi Books, 1977) and a German translation (Bastei Lübbe, 1979), also in paperback.
Below is pictured Julian Barnes’s advance copy sent to the author from his publisher Jonathan Cape. The copy bears Barnes’s personal ownership signature dated “MCMLXXV” [1975].