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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Jonathan Cape, 1989. Reader’s Collection edition.
The Reader’s Collection edition is the first Jonathan Cape edition with the addition of a special book plate designating it as part of the “Reader’s Collection” series. Prior to publication, the “Reader’s Collection” distributed a sample chapter of the novel.
Notes on this edition: The American edition and the Canadian editions were published simultaneously and are identical in pagination, except for variations to the preliminary page, title page, and copyright page, as noted. Some first editions were distributed by the publisher with signed bookplates, as shown.
Descriptive Bibliography: First American edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. $26.00.
Title Page: ELIZABETH FINCH | A NOVEL | JULIAN BARNES | [Random House device] | Alfred A. Knopf | New York | 2022
Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF | Copyright © 2022 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, | a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. | Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, | an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of | Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2022. | www.aaknopf.com | Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks | of Penguin Random House LLC. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Names: Barnes, Julian, author. | Title: Elizabeth Finch : a novel / Julian Barnes. | Description: First United States edition. [bar ‘|’] New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. | Identifiers: LCCN 2022004061 (print) [bar ‘|’] LCCN 2022004062 (ebook) [bar ‘|’] | ISBN 9780593535431 (hardcover) [bar ‘|’] ISBN 9780593535448 (ebook) | Subjects: LCGFT: Novels. | Classification: LCC PR6052.A6657 E45 2022 (print) [bar ‘|’] | LCC PR6052.A6657 | (ebook) [bar ‘|’] DDC 823/.914—dc23/eng/20220127 | LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022004061 | LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022004062 | This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product | of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, | living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. | Jacket photograph by MirageC / Moment / Getty Images | Jacket design by Janet Hansen | Manufactured in the United States of America | First United States Edition
Collation: 20.8 x 14.0 cm. Pp. [i-viii] [1-2] 3-69 [70-72] 73-121 [122-124] 125-179 [180-184]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘Also by Julian Barnes | FICTION | 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 | Cross Channel | England, England | Love, etc. | The Lemon Table | Arthur & George | Pulse | The Sense of an Ending | The Noise of Time | The Only Story | NONFICTION | Letters from London, 1990–1995 | Something to Declare | The Pedant in the Kitchen | Nothing to Be Frightened Of | Through the Window | Levels of Life | Keeping an Eye Open | The Man in the Red Coat | TRANSLATION | In the Land of Pain | by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: ‘ELIZABETH FINCH’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘To Rachel’. [viii]: blank. [1]: ‘ONE’. [2]: blank. 3-69: text. [70]: blank. [71]: ‘TWO’. [72]: blank. 73-121: text. [122]: blank. [123]: ‘THREE’. [124]: blank. 125-179: text. [180]: blank. [181]: [‘Acknowledgements’] [182]: blank. [183]: [‘A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR’]. [184]: [‘A NOTE ON THE TYPE’].
General Description: Binding 21.6 x 14.6 cm. Black boards stamped in silver lettering to the spine. White endpapers. Back flap of the dust jacket features an author photograph by Marzena Pogorzaly.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Historie světa v deseti a půl kapitolách | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Prague: Odeon, 2022. Pp. 358 + [10]. 20.6 x 13.4 cm. Translated by Eva Klimentová. ISBN: 9788020721372. (Czech).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Elizabeth Finch. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2022. Pp. 236 [237] + [3]. 21 cm x 13 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 9783462003277. (German).
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.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. L’unica storia | The Only Story. Milan: Mondolibri, 2019. Pp. 237 + [7]. 20.9 x 13.7 cm. Translated by Susanna Basso. (Italian Book Club).
This Italian book club edition has no price listed on the dust jacket.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Guardando il sole | Staring at the Sun. Einaudi, 2019. Pp. 232 + [4]. 22.3 x 14.3 cm. Translated by Daniela Fargione. ISBN: 9788806221799. (Italian).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Než potkala mě | Before She Met Me. Prague: Odeon, 2018. Pp. 213 + [11]. 20.6 x 13.1 cm. Translated by Jiří Hanuš. ISBN: 9788020718327. (Czech).
Book Club edition.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Il Pedante in Cucina | The Pedant in the Kitchen. Einaudi, 2020. Pp. 116 + [8]. 18.5 x 12.2 cm. Translated by Daniela Fargione. ISBN: 9788806244057. (Italian).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Con un occhio aperto | Keeping an Eye Open. Einaudi, 2019. Pp. 286 + [4]. 22.3 x 17.8 cm. Translated by Daniela Fargione. ISBN: 9788806230982. (Italian).