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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. 용감한 친구 들 | Arthur & George. 경기도 파주시: 다산 북스, 2015 [Kyŏnggi-do P’aju-si: Dasan, 2015]. Pp. 311+ [1]. 19.5 x 13.3 cm. Translated by 한 유주. ISBN: 9791130605067. (Korean).
Julian Barnes’s novel Arthur & George was published in Korean by Dasan Books in two separate volumes. This example features Book #2. They published Book #1 simultaneously and with corresponding dust jackets.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. 용감한 친구 들 | Arthur & George. 경기도 파주시: 다산 북스, 2015 [Kyŏnggi-do P’aju-si: Dasan, 2015]. Pp. 409 + [1]. 19.5 x 13.3 cm. Translated by 한 유주. ISBN: 9791130605050. (Korean).
Julian Barnes’s novel Arthur & George was published in Korean by Dasan Books in two separate volumes. This example features Book #1. They published Book #2 simultaneously and with corresponding dust jackets.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. L’unica storia | The Only Story. Torino: Einaudi, 2018. Pp. 237 + [5]. 22.2 x 14.3 cm. Translated by Susanna Basso. ISBN: 9788806237509. (Italian).
Visit Einaudi’s author page for Julian Barnes here: https://www.einaudi.it/autori/julian-barnes/
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. 연애의 기억 | The Only Story. 경기도 파주시: 다산 북스, 2018. [Kyŏnggi-do P’aju-si: Dasan, 2018]. Pp. 383 [384]. 19.4 x 13.4 cm. ISBN: 9781130618937. (Korean).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “The Bitter Lemon Days.” Another Round at the Pillars: Essays, Poems & Reflections on Ian Hamilton. Edited by David Harsent. Cornwall: Cargo Press, 1999. Pp. 151 + [5]. 24 x 15.3 cm. ISBN: 1899980067.
From the jacket: “For his sixtieth birthday friends of the distinguished poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton, have gathered to offer an international festschrift to honour his writings and the remarkable influence he has exerted on his generation.”
Julian Barnes’s essay appears on pp. 15-21. It was also published in The Guardian (17 April 1999). Other authors contributing to the collection include:
Blake Morrison
A Alvarez
Andrew Motion
Harold Pinter
Peter Dale
Hugo Williams
Douglas Dunn
Karl Miller
Alan Jenkins
David Harsent
Christopher Reid
Ian McEwan
Craig Raine
Dan Jacobson
Simon Gray
Peter Porter
Michael Hofmann
John Fuller
Charles Osborne
Michael Fried
Clive James
Colin Falck
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Mrs Thather Remembers.” Selected and with a foreword by Ian Hamilton. The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays. London & New York: Allen Lane & The Penguin Press, 1999. Pp. 554 [555] + [5]. 24 x 16 cm.
Julian Barnes’s essay appears on pp. 543-[555]. The dust jacket of this example lists sale prices for both the U.K. and Canadian, but not the U.S. The essay was published in Barnes’s collection Letters from London.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Edgar Degas.” Writers on Artists. London / New York: DK Publishing, 2001. Pp. 352. 28.2 x 22.3 cm. ISBN: 0789480352.
The book is published in association with Modern Painters. Other authors contributing to this collection include David Hockney, Howard Jacobson, Will Self, Craig Raine, David Bowie, Andrew Motion, Nick Hornby, A. S. Byatt, Seamus Heaney, and others.
Julian Barnes’s essay on Edgar Degas appears on pp. 158-165. The dust jacket matches the illustrated binding, as pictured.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. ‘[Untitled].” Foot: les 100 photos. Paris: EPA, 2002. Pp. 223 + [1]. 34.7 x 24.6 cm. ISBN: 2851205811. (French).
Edited by Benoît Heimermann avec la collaboration de Céline Ruissel.
Julian Barnes contributes a short piece on a photograph of footballer George Best.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Howard Hodgkin: Words for H. H.” in Howard Hodgkin. [Paris]: Gagosian Paris, 2014. Pp. 111 + [1]. 27.1 x 31.2 cm. ISBN: 9781938748028.
The book includes contributions by Barnes, James Fenton, Susan Sontag, and Jeff Wall.
Julian Barnes’s essay appears in both French (pp. 83-89) and English (pp. [91]-96. The French translation was by Jean-Pierre Aoustin.
Barnes’s essay originally appeared in Howard Hodgkin (Gagosian Gallery, 2003).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “U” in Hockney’s Alphabet. Edited by Stephen Spender. New York: Random House, 1991. Pp. 92 + [4]. 39.4 x 23.3 cm. ISBN: 067941066x.
Drawings by David Hockney with written contributions by Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Craig Raine, and others. Each author addresses a letter from the alphabet.
Julian Barnes’s contribution appears on page 71-72.
“The proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust and be used to support AIDS research and services to people with AIDS.”
The book was also published in deluxe and special editions.