Dust Jacket – Page 5 – Julian Barnes Bibliography

Con los ojos bien abiertos | Keeping an Eye Open (Editorial Anagrama, 2018; Spanish)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Con los ojos bien abiertos | Keeping an Eye Open. Editorial Anagrama, 2018. Pp. 322 + [6]. 22.6 x 14.4 cm. Translated by Cecilia Ceriani. ISBN: 9788433964281. (Spanish).

Table of Contents appears on p. [323].

A Vision of the World by John Cheever (Vintage, 2021; Edited with an Introduction)

Notes on this edition: John Cheever. A Vision of the World: Selected Stories. Selected and with an introduction by Julian Barnes. Vintage, 2021. Pp. 274 + [10]. 22.3 x 14.2 cm. ISBN: 9781784875824.

Barnes’s introduction is published on pages ix-xx.

L’uomo con la vestaglia rossa | The Man in the Red Coat (Einaudi, 2020; Italian)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. L’uomo con la vestaglia rossa | The Man in the Red Coat. Einaudi, 2020. Pp. 286 [287] + [5]. 22.3 x 14.2 cm. Translated by Daniela Fargione. ISBN: 9788806245368. (Italian).

Metroland (Jonathan Cape, 1992)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Metroland. Jonathan Cape, 1992. Pp. 176. 20.4 x 12.7 cm. ISBN: 0224017624.

Second hardback edition of Julian Barnes’s first novel. The text block and pagination are unchanged from the first Jonathan Cape edition (1980). This example is a former library copy.

De man in de rode mantel | The Man in the Red Coat (Atlas Contact, 2019; Dutch)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. De man in de rode mantel | The Man in the Red Coat. Atlas Contact, 2019. Pp. 319 + [1]. 21.6 x 14 cm. Translated by Ronald Vlek. ISBN: 9789025458294. (Dutch).

“Nachworts” | Chez Krull (Kampa Verlag, 2018; German)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Nachworts: Die Welt von ‘Chez Krull’ ist nicht verschwunden” in Chez Krull by Georges Simenon. Zürich: Kampa Verlag, 2018. Pp. 253 [254] + [2]. 21 x 13.2 cm. ISBN: 9783311133353. (German).

Julian Barnes’s afterword is translated by Thomas Bodmer and appears on pp. 249-[254].

To launch the new Simenon publishing program in German, Kampa Verlag commissioned afterwords to accompany the new editions. Simenon’s Chez Krull features an afterword by Julian Barnes, as pictured.

Inserted into the example presented here is a small promotional pamphlet of 20 pages (10 pages folded and glued) promoting the new editions. For more information about Kampa Verlag, please visit: https://kampaverlag.ch/georges-simenon-chez-krull/

The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980)

Notes on this edition:

Julian Barnes (Contributor). The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects. Edited by Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. 860 + [2]. 25.1 x 19.2 cm. ISBN: 0710088590.

The first edition of this volume was published in 1978.

While specific entries are not identified as being researched by Julian Barnes, he is listed as one of the contributors to this volume. The work for this volume was done in the years before the publication of Barnes’s first novel (Metroland, 1980). Other contributors include John Baxter and Jonathan Keates amongst others.

According to Julian Barnes, researchers were paid 50p for each quotation that made it into the final publication. Barnes can’t remember at this distance the exact entries he contributed, but based on the payments he received the number was substantial (in the hundreds).