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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. 예감 은 틀리지 않는다 | The Sense of an Ending. 경기도 파주시: 다산 북스, 2018 [Kyŏnggi-do P’aju-si: Dasan, 2018]. Pp. 267 + [1]. 19.4 x 13.3 cm. Translated by . ISBN: 9788963708386. (Korean).
This hardback edition is a reprint of the first edition and features a reissued dust jacket.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Poczucie Kresu | The Sense of an Ending. Warsaw: Świat Książki Wydawnictwo, 2018. Pp. 218 [6]. 20.6 x 13.2 cm. Translated by Jan Kabat. ISBN: 9788380316676. (Polish).
Originally published by Świat Książki in 2012.
Notes on this edition: Одна история | The Only Story. Moscow: Издательство “Иностранка” [Inostranka], 2018. Pp. 317 [318] + [319]: Table of Contents, [320]: Colophon. 20.6 x 11.2 cm. Translated by Е. Петровой [E. Petrova]. ISBN: 9785389140141. (Russian).
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. The Reef. London: Everyman’s Library / David Campbell Publishers, 1996. Pp. 290 + [6]. 21 x 13.1 cm. ISBN: 1857152018.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to volume by Edith Wharton (pp. ix-xviii). Part of the Everyman’s Library series, no. 201. Republished in Barnes’s collection of essays Through the Window.
This edition is paginated the same as the U.S. edition distributed by Alfred A. Knopf, though the dust jackets are different.
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. The Reef. New York: Everyman’s Library / Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 290 + [6]. 21 x 13.1 cm. ISBN: 0679447245.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to volume by Edith Wharton (pp. ix-xviii). Part of the Everyman’s Library series, no. 201. Republished in Barnes’s collection of essays Through the Window.
This edition is paginated the same as the U.K. edition distributed by Random House, though the dust jackets are different.
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. A Motor-Flight through France. London: Picador, 1995. Pp. 195 + [3]. 19 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780330343978.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to this collection by Edith Wharton (pp. 1-14). Part of the Picador Travel Classics series.
Notes on this edition: The Only Story. London: London Review Bookshop, 2018. The book itself measures 22.2 x 14.8 cm. The slipcase measures 23.1 x 15.3 cm.
This is the full leather edition of the signed, limited edition in slip case. The London Review Bookshop also issued a quarter-leather and cloth limited edition. The limitation pages reads:
A special signed limited
First Edition
of
The Only Story
printed on
Longan Book Wove 150gsm paper.
Numbers 1 to 75 have been quarter-bound
in Harmatan Green 16 goatskin with
Dubletta cloth sides and contain one
facsimile page from the author’s notebook.
25 copies (i to xxv), plus 3 hors commerce,
have been fully bound in the same leather
and contain a portfolio of six facsimile pages
of early draft passages and notebook entries.
The book presented here is number 3 of the hors commerce edition mentioned above. It is identical to the full leather edition, except for the “hors commerce” designation.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Only Story. London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. Pp. 212 [213] + [3]. 22.3 x 14.4 cm. ISBN: 9781787330931.
The book is nearly identical to the Jonathan Cape first hardback edition. Suzanne Dean, Vintage’s Creative Director, discusses designing the covers both editions on the Foyles website: http://www.foyles.co.uk/blog-Only-Story-Cover-Story
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Justin: A Small Major Character.” The Process of Art: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Music, and Painting in Honour of Alan Raitt. Edited by Michael Freeman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Jill Forbes, Toby Garfitt, and Roger Pearson, with Janis Spurlock. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. 214. 23 cm. ISBN: 9780198159537.
Julian Barnes’s essay “Justin: A Small Major Character” appears on pages 1-10. Additional contributors include:
Introduction: Roger Pearson
Alan Raitt: Mike Freeman
Professor A.W. Raitt: Curriculum Vitae
A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Alan Raitt: Janis Spurlock
Une amitie sans nuages: Jean Derens
Justin: A Small Major Character: Julian Barnes
In the Mind’s Eye: The Meanings of Liberty Guiding the People: David Bellos
Lautreamont’s Literary Life: Peter Dayan
Balzac and the Symbolist Cathedral: Tim Farrant and Juliet Simpson
De grands inachevements: Les Paysans, Les Petits Bourgeois, Le Depute d’Arcis: Andre Lorant
‘Shakespeare ou Maeterlinck’: Mallarme Reading Theatre: Patrick McGuinness
Huysmans emule de Flaubert: Tentation de la reecriture, reecriture de La Tentation (A rebours, La Tentation de saint Antoine, et Herodias): Bertrand Marchal
Au-dela du sacrifice: Les contes de L’Amour supreme de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam: Alain Nery
Quelques reflexions sur ‘Le Tueur de cygnes’: Jacques Noiray
Notes on this edition: Posy Simmonds. Literary Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Pp. 96. 26 cm. ISBN: 0224072692.
Simmonds draws Julian Barnes in several of the launch party scenes. Barnes has praised Simmonds’s works several times in various publications. In 2018, he referenced this work was on his bedside table (interview with Rachel Cooke, The Guardian).