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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Lemon Table. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 213 + [3]. 19.7 x 13.1 cm. ISBN: 0330426923.
This is the first U.K. paperback of Julian Barnes’s The Lemon Table. When Picador published this collection of stories, they reissued their backlog of Barnes’s titles with new cover art.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. England, England. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 266. 19.6 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 0330373447.
Picador reissued their edition of England, England with new cover art at the same time they reissued Barnes’s other books. While the copyright page does not state the date, the rejacketed editions were issued in 2005. This printing is the 10th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Cross Channel. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 211 + [3]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 0330349112.
Picador reissued their edition of Cross Channel with new cover art at the same time they reissued Barnes’s other books. While the copyright page does not state the date, the rejacketed editions were issued in 2005. This printing is the 10th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Letters from London. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 352. 19.7 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 0330341162.
Picador reissued their edition of Letters from London with new cover art at the same time they reissued Barnes’s other books. While the copyright page does not state the date, the rejacketed editions were issued in 2005. This printing is the 6th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Porcupine. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 138. 19.7 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 033032828x.
Picador reissued their edition of The Porcupine with new cover art at the same time they reissued Barnes’s other books. While the copyright page does not state the date, the rejacketed editions were issued in 2005. This printing is the 5th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 372 [373] + [3]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 0330313991.
Picador reissued their edition of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters with new cover art at the same time they reissued Barnes’s other books. While the copyright page does not state the date, the rejacketed editions were issued in 2005. This printing is the 37th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Staring at the Sun. London: Picador, 2005. 195 + [7]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 0330299301.
Picador reissued their edition of Staring at the Sun with new cover art at the same time they reset Barnes’s other books. While the copyright page does not state the date, the rejacketed editions were issued in 2005. The pagination remains the same as in earlier Picador editions of this novel. This printing is the 24th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Before She Met Me. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 212 + [2]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 0330300059.
Picador reset the type for this edition in 1995. They also created new cover art for this 2005 reissue. The pagination varies from the earlier Picador/Pavanne edition (1983). This is the 22nd printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Metroland. London: Picador, 2005. Pp. 214 + [2]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 0330313819.
Picador reset the type for this edition in 1995. They also created new cover art for this 2005 reissue. The pagination varies from the earlier Picador edition (1990). The books each carry the same ISBN. This is the 20th printing.
Author photograph by Ellen Warner.
Notes on this edition: First edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. $25.00.
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Title Page: Pulse | Julian Barnes | [in light gray under author’s name] lse | [Alfred A. Knopf device] | Alfred A. Knopf | NEW YORK · 2011
Copyright Page: [Borzoi device] | THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF | Copyright © 2011 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, | a division of Random House, Inc., New York. | www.aaknopf.com | Knopf, Borzoi, and the colophon are registered trademarks | of Random House, Inc. | Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, | The Random House Group Limited, London. | Some of the stories in this work were previously published in | slightly different form in the following: “Harmony” and “Marriage | Lines” in Granta; “At Phil & Joanna’s I: 60/40” and “Sleeping with | John Updike” in the Guardian; “Complicity,” “East Wind,” “The | Limner,” and “Trespass” in The New Yorker; and “At Phil & Joanna’s 2: | Marmalade” in The Sunday Times. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | Pulse / Julian Barnes.—1st American ed. | p. cm. | ISBN 978-0-307-59526-3 | I. Title. | PR6052.A6657P85 2011 | 823’.914—dc22 2011002736 | 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 image: Le Malade Imaginaire by Honoré Daumier. Private | Collection. Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library International | Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson | Manufactured in the United States of America | First United States Edition
Collation: 21.3 x 14.3 cm. Pp. [i-x, 1-3] 4-18 [19] 20-32 [33] 34-47 [48] 49-60 [61] 62-78 [79] 80-92 [93] 94-105 [106] 107-120 [121] 122-128 [129-131] 132-144 [145] 146-157 [158] 159-184 [185] 186-195 [196] 197-227 [228-230]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘BY THE SAME AUTHOR | 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 | NON-FICTION | Letters From London 1990–1995 | Something to Declare | The Pedant in the Kitchen | Nothing to Be Frightened Of | TRANSLATION | In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: ‘Pulse’. [iv]: ‘Pu’. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘for Pat’. [viii]: blank. [ix]: [Contents]. [x]: blank. [1]: ‘One’. [2]: blank. 3-128: text. [129]: ‘Two’. [130]: blank. [131]-227: text. [228]: blank. [229]: [‘A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR’]. [230]: [‘A NOTE ON THE TYPE’].
General description: Binding 21.9 x 14.8 cm. Red cloth boards stamped in gold lettering to spine. White endpapers. Deckled or ‘uncut’ fore edge. Back flap of dust jacket features an author photograph by Ellen Warner. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Stories included: East Wind | At Phil & Joanna’s 1: 60/40 | Sleeping with John Updike | At Phil & Joanna’s 2: Marmalade | Gardeners’ World | At Phil & Joanna’s 3: Look, No Hands | Trespass | At Phil & Joanna’s 4: One in Five | Marriage Lines | The Limner | Complicity | Harmony | Carcassonne | Pulse