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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Noise of Time. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2016. Pp. 200 [201] + [3]. 21 x 14.7 cm.
Leather bound, “Signed Collector’s Edition” published by Easton Press by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf. Text edges in gilt gold with inserted author biography and a certificate of authenticity. The specific limitation stated as 400 copies.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Ljubezen, etc. | Love, etc. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2002. Pp. 217 + [3]. 20.6 x 14.4 cm. Translated by Valerija Cokan. ISBN: 9788611163420. (Slovenian).
Notes on this edition: A small number of copies of the first U.K. edition of Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time were distributed with a printing error on the dust jacket. The red lettering is missing for the author’s name on the front and spine and the blurbs to the back of the jacket. The letters impressed upon the jacket, which created an embossed effect (as shown in the photos), but the ink failed to apply.
In addition to the copy featured here, the author was made aware of two additional copies with this error. The exact number of copies with this printing error is unknown.
Notes on this edition: The first English language edition of Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time was preceded in publication by the Dutch and Georgian translations. A very small quantity of dust jackets for the first edition were published with a printing error in which the red lettering was not applied (see example).
Descriptive Bibliography: First edition – London: Jonathan Cape, 2016. £14.99. ISBN: 9781910702604
Title Page: JULIAN BARNES | THE NOISE | OF TIME | [Jonathan Cape device] | JONATHAN CAPE | LONDON
Copyright Page: 1 3 5 7 9 20 8 6 4 2 | Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, | 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, | London SW1V 2SA | Jonathan Cape is part of the Penguin Random House | group of companies whose addresses can be found at | global.penguinrandomhouse.com. | [Penguin Random House UK device] | Copyright © Julian Barnes 2016 | Julian Barnes has asserted his right to be identified as the | author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, | Designs and Patents Act 1988. | First published by Jonathan Cape in 2016 | www.vintage-books.co.uk | A CIP catalogue record for this book | is available from the British Library | ISBN: 9781910702604 | Typeset by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire | Printed and bound by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc | Penguin Random House is committed to a sustainable | future for our business, our readers and our planet. This book is | made from Forest Stewardship Council® certified paper. | [FSC® logo]
Collation: 19.7 x 12.8 cm. Pp. [i-viii] 1-3 [4-6] 7-58 [59-60] 61-111 [112-114] 115-179 [180-182] 183 [184]. [i]: ‘THE NOISE OF TIME’. [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 | NON-FICTION | 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 | TRANSLATION | In the Land of Pain | by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘for Pat’. [vi]: blank. [vii]: ‘One to hear | One to remember | And one to drink. | traditional’. [viii]: blank. 1-3: text. [4]: blank. [5]: ‘1: On the Landing’. [6]: blank. 7-58: text. [59]: ‘2: On the Plane’. [60]: blank. 61-111: text. [112]: blank. [113]: ‘3: In the Car’. [114]: blank. 115-[180]: text. [181-182]: blank. 183-[184]: [‘Author’s note’].
General description: Binding 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Black cloth boards stamped in red lettering to spine. Black endpapers. Cover design by Suzanne Dean with an illustration by Vladimir Zimokov. Back flap of dust jacket features an author photograph by Alan Edwards.
The example below is the 11th printing:
Notes on this edition: First edition – Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2015. Pp. 278. ISBN: 9780345815170. $34.95.
The first Canadian edition of Julian Barnes’s Keeping an Eye Open appears nearly identical to the first American edition, except changes to the publisher information on the title page, copyright page, and jacket that identify this edition as a Random House Canada publication.
Pages are cream, not white, as evidenced by the contrast between page color and the publisher’s device on the title page.
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Title Page: Keeping an Eye Open | ESSAYS ON ART | Julian Barnes | [Random House Canada device] | RANDOM HOUSE CANADA
Copyright Page: PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA | Copyright © 2015 Julian Barnes | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of | this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including | information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, | except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2015 by Random | House Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House | company, and simultaneously in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin | Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an | imprint of The Random House Group Limited. Distributed in Canada by Random House of | Canada Limited, Toronto. | www.penguinrandomhouse.ca | Random House Canada and colophon are registered trademarks. | Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication | Barnes, Julian | [Essays. Selections] | Keeping an eye open : essays on art / Julian Barnes. | Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape. | Issued in print and electronic formats. | ISBN 978-0-345-81517-0 | eBook ISBN 978-0-345-81519-4 | 1. Art, Modern–19th century. 2. Art, Modern–20th century. | I. Title. | N6447.B37 2015 709.04 C2015-902863-9 | Front-of-jacket image: Palette of Edgar Degas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. | Gianni Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY | Back-of-jacket images: (top to bottom, details) Still Life with Curtain and Flowered Pitcher by | Paul Cézanne, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Scala/Art Resource, NY; | Desperate, self-portrait by Gustave Courbet, HIP/Art Resource, NY; Olympia by Edouard Manet, | Musée d’Orsay; Paris, France. Scala/Art Resource/NY | Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson | Printed and bound in Singapore | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | [Random House Canada device to left; three lines of text to the right] Penguin | Random House | RANDOM HOUSE CANADA
Collation: 21.4 x 17.0 cm. Pp. [-ii-vii] viii [1-2] 3-4 [5] 6-11 [12] 13-26 [27] 28-30 [31] 32 [33] 34-46 [47] 48-52 [53] 54-56 [57-58] 59-62 [63] 64 [65] 66- [60] 61-62 [63] 64-71 [72] 73-79 [80] 81-86 [87] 88 [89] 90-91 [92] 93-98 [99] 100-102 [103] 104-106 [107] 108-110 [111] 112 [113] 114-118 [119] 120 [121] 122 [123] 124-128 [129] 130-132 [133] 134-136 [137] 138-142 [143] 144 [145] 146-151 [152] 153-156 [157] 158160 [161] 162-164 [165] 166-176 [177] 178-180 [181] 182-184 [185] 186-190 [191] 192-196 [197] 198-206 [207] 208-212 [213] 214 [215] 216-220 [221] 222 [223] 224-229 [230-231] 232 [233] 234 [235] 236-240 [241] 242-248 [249] 250 [251] 252-257 [258] 259-264 [265] 266 [267] 268-270 [271] 272-278. [-ii]: blank. [-i] ‘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 | 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 | TRANSLATION | In The Land Of Pain by Alphonse Daudet’. [i]: ‘KEEPING AN EYE OPEN’. [ii]: blank. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘FOR PAT’. [vi]: blank. [vii]-viii: [Table of Contents]. [1]: ‘KEEPING AN EYE OPEN’. [2]: blank. 3-4: text. [5]: [image with caption: ‘Quimperlé (Finistère): Le Pont fleuri’]. 6-11: text. [12]: [image with caption: ‘The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault’]. 13-26: text. [27]: [image with caption: ‘Scene of Cannibalism on the Raft of the Medusa by Géricult’]. 28-30: text. [31]: [image with caption: ‘The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault | Detail showing men waving at the ship’]. 32: text. [33]: [image with caption: ‘The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault | Detail of the man with the grey beard’]. 34-46: text. [47]: [image with caption: ‘The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault | Detail showing prone figure modelled by Delacroix’’]. 48-52: text. [53]: [image with caption: ‘Homage to Delacroix by Fantin-Latour | Detail showing, from left, Whistler, the novelist Champfleury, Manet’]. 54-56: text. [57]: [image with caption: ‘An Unmade Bed by Delacroix’]. [58]: [image with caption: ‘The Mediterranean by Courbet’]. 59-62: text. [63]: [image with caption: ‘The Meeting by Courbet’]. 64: text. [65]: [image with caption: ‘L’Atelier (detail) by Courbet’]. 66-71: text. [72]: [image with caption: ‘A Studio in the Batignolles Quarter by Fantin-Latour | Detail showing Manet (at easel), Renoir (in the picture frame), | and Monet (far right)’]. 73-79: text. [80]: [image with caption: ‘The Bouquet of Lilacs by Manet’]. 81-88: text. [89]: [image with caption: ‘The Execution of Maximilian by Manet | Detail of the NCO cocking his rifle from the painting in London (left) | and the version in Mannheim (right)’]. 90-91: text. [92]: [image with caption: ‘A Corner of the Table by Fantin-Latour | Detail showing (from left) Verlaine, Rimbaud and Léon Valade’]. 93-98: text. [99]: [image with caption: ‘Homage to Delacroix by Fantin-Latour | Detail showing Fantin-Latour’]. 100-102: text. [103]: [image with caption: ‘The Dubourg Family by Fantin-Latour’]. 104-106: text. [107]: [image with caption: ‘Homage to Cézanne by Denis | Detail showing (from left) the painters Redon and Vuillard, | the art critic André Mellario, the dealer Ambroise Vollard, | and the painters Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier’]. 108-110: text. [111]: [image with caption: ‘The Card Players by Cézanne’]. 112: text. [113]: [image with caption: ‘Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair by Cézanne’]. 114-118: text. [117]: [image with caption: ‘Apotheosis of Degas by Edgar Degas and Walter Barnes’]. 122: text. [123]: ‘The Dance Lesson (detail) by Degas’]. 124-128: text. [129]: [image with caption: ‘Madame Camille Redon Reading by Redon’]. 130-132: text. [133]: [image with caption: ‘Chimera (Fantastic Monster) by Redon’]. 134-136: text. [137]: [image with caption: ‘The Cyclops by Redon’]. 138-142: text. [143]: [image with caption: ‘The Anabaptists: Pierre Bonnard by Vuillard’]. 144: text. [145]: [image with caption: ‘Nude in the Bath by Bonnard’]. 146-151: text. [152]: [image with caption: ‘A Corner of the Table by Bonnard’]. 153-156: text. [157]: [image with caption: ‘Woman Sweeping by Vuillard’]. 158-160: text. [161]: [image with caption: ‘The Nape of Misia’s Neck by Vuillard’]. 162-164: text. [165]: [image with caption: ‘The Chat by Vuillard’]. 166-176: text. [177]: [image with caption: ‘The Lie by Vallotton’]. 178-180: text. [181]: [image with caption: ‘The Five Painters by Vallotton | Detail showing Vallotton (standing), Bonnard (left) and Vuillard’]. 182-184: text. [185]: [image with caption: ‘Money by Vallotton’]. 186-190: text. [191]: [image with caption: ‘The Pond (Honfleur) by Vallotton’]. 192-196: text. [197]: [image with caption: ‘Les usines de Rio Tinto à l’Estaque by Braque’]. 198-206: text. [207]: [image with caption: ‘George Braque, artist, and his wife Marcelle, Paris, 27th January, 1959 | by Richard Avedon’]. 208-212: text. [213]: [image with caption: ‘Les Affinités Electives by Magritte’]. 214: text. [215]: [image with caption: ‘La Clairvoyance by Magritte’]. 216-220: text. [221]: [image with caption: ‘Proposed Colossal Monument for Central Park North, N.Y.C.—Teddy Bear | by Oldenburg’]. 222: text. [223]: [image with caption: ‘Giant Soft Fan by Oldenburg’]. 224-229: text. [230]: [image with caption: ‘Dead Dad by Mueck’]. [231]: [image with caption: ‘La Vénus ataxique by Richer’]. 232: text. [233]: [image with caption: ‘The Head of an Englishman’]. 234: text. [235]: [image with caption: ‘The Hand of a Giant from Barnum’s Circus’]. 236-240: text. [241]: [image with caption: ‘The Painter in His Studio by Rembrandt’]. 242-248: text. [249]: [image with caption: ‘Hotel Bedroom by Freud | detail showing Caroline Blackwood’]. 250: text. [251]: [image with caption: ‘The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer (detail) by Freud’]. 252-257: text. [258]: [image with caption: ‘Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink by Freud’]. 259-264: text. [265]: [image with caption: ‘Alpine Snow by Hodgkin’]. 266: text. [267]: [image with caption: ‘After Degas by Hodgkin’]. 268-270: text. [271]: [image with caption: ‘Lovers by Hodgkin’]. 272-278: text.
General description: Binding 22.2 x 17.8 cm. Red-orange cloth boards stamped in gold lettering to spine. White endpapers. Cover design by Carol Devine Carson. Back flap of dust jacket features an author photograph by Alan Edwards.
Notes on this edition: First edition – London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. £16.99.
Descriptive Bibliography:
Title Page: Nothing to | be Frightened of | [decorative rule] | JULIAN BARNES | [Jonathan Cape device] | JONATHAN CAPE | LONDON
Copyright Page: Published by Jonathan Cape 2008 | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 | Copyright © Julian Barnes 2008 | Julian Barnes has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs | and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. | This book is a work of non-fiction based on the life, experiences and | recollections of the author. The author has stated to the publishers that the | contents of this book are true. | 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 2008 by | Jonathan Cape | Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, | London SW1V 2SA | www.rbooks.co.uk | Addresses for companies within The Random House Group Limited can be found at: | www.randomhouse.co.uk/offices.htm | The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 | A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library | ISBN 9780224085236 | Permissions | ‘Aubade’, ‘Church Going’ and ‘Wants’ from Collected Poems by Philip Larkin | edited by Anthony Thwaite (The Marvell Press & Faber and Faber 2003). | Extracts from Changing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly (© Eugene O’Kelly 2006) | reproduced by kind permission of McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. | The Random House Group Limited supports The Forest Stewardship | Council (FSC), the leading international forest certification organization. All our titles | that are printed on Greenpeace-approved FSC-certified paper carry the FSC logo. | Our paper procurement policy can be found at www.rbooks.co.uk/environment | [FSC logo] | Typeset in Adobe Garamond by Palmpsest Book Production Limited, | Grangemouth, Stirlingshire | Printed and bound in Great Britain by | Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
Collation: 21.3 x 13.7 cm. Pp. [i-vi] 1-250. [i]: ‘Nothing to | be Frightened of | [decorative rule]’. [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 | Translation | IN THE LAND OF PAIN | by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘to P.’. [vi]: blank. 1-250: text.
General description: Binding 22.2 x 14.3 cm. Decorative paper boards suggestive of a photo album with title in red lettering and the author’s name in black on the front cover. Deep maroon endpapers. No dust jacket issued.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flauberts Papagei | Flaubert’s Parrot. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1987. Pp. 277 [278] + [2]. 18.5 x 11.2 cm. Translated by Michael Walter. ISBN: 3251001043. (German).
Cover illustration by Volker Kriegel.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Sense of an Ending. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2015. Pp. 163 + [7]. 22.4 x 14.7 cm.
Leather bound, “Signed Collector’s Edition” published by Easton Press by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf. Text edges in gilt gold with inserted author biography and a certificate of authenticity. The specific limitation is not stated in the book, but Barnes believes he signed 2,000 copies.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Arthur & George. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Pp. 385 [386] + [6]. 21.5 x 14.7 cm. ISBN: 030726310X. Book club edition.
The hardback book club edition of Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George looks very similar to the First American Edition, but the book club edition is considerably smaller, has no price indicated on the inside front flap, has a smooth/cut fore edge, and features a book club number on the back cover near the altered, white ISBN box (comparison images included). Other small differences are not noted here.
Notes on this edition: First American edition – Julian Barnes. Arthur & George. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Pp. 385. 25 cm. ISBN: 030726310x. $24.95.
Descriptive Bibliography:
Title Page: Arthur & George | Julian Barnes | [illustration] | [Knopf device] | ALFRED A. KNOPF | NEW YORK 2006
Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF | Copyright © 2005 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 | Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of | The Random House Group Limited, London. | Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of | Random House, Inc. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | Arthur & George / Julian Barnes.—1st American ed. | p. cm. | title: Arthur and George. | ISBN 0-307-26310-X | 1. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930—Fiction. 2. Horses—Crimes | against—Fiction. 3. Racially mixed people—Fiction. 4. Children of | clergy—Fiction. 5. Midlands (England)—Fiction. 6. Judicial error— | Fiction. I. Title: Arthur and George. II. Title. | PR6052.A6657A84 2006 | 823’.914—dc22 2005048771 | This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either | are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. | Manufactured in the United States of America | First American Edition
Collation: Pp. [only odd pages numbered] [i-viii, 1-4] 5-49 [50-54] 55-71 [72-74] 75-221 [222-226] 227-347 [348-352] 353-385 [386-392]. [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 | Non-Fiction | Letters From London 1990–1995 | Something to Declare | The Pedant in the Kitchen | Translation | In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: ‘Arthur & George’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘To P.K.’. [viii]: blank. [1]: ‘ONE | Beginnings | [ornament]’. [2]: blank. [3]-[50]: text. [51]: ‘TWO | Beginning with | an Ending | [ornament]’. [52]: blank. [53]-221: text. [222]: blank. [223]: ‘THREE | Ending with | a Beginning | [ornament]’. [224]: blank. [225]-347: text. [348]: blank. [349]: ‘FOUR | Endings | [ornament]’. [350]: blank. [351]-[386]: text. [387-388]: ‘Author’s Note’. [389-390]: blank. [391]: ‘A Note on the Type’. [392]: blank.
General description: Binding 24.1 x 16.5 cm. Brown-orange paper boards stamped in gold to spine. White endpapers. The text block has a deckled or “uncut” fore edge. Author photograph on back flap by Ellen Warner. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund and Carol Devine Carson.
This copy signed on Feburary 11, 2006, during his U.S. promotional tour.