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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Foreword.” South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David. Compiled by Jill Norman. Boston: David R. Godine, 2006. Pp. [xxxii], 383 [384]. 22.8 x 15.2 cm. ISBN: 1567923097.
Julian Barnes’s foreword appears on pp. vii-xvii.
Notes on this edition: Die Briefe an Louise Colet | The Letters of Louise Colet. Translated from the French and with notes by Cornelia Hasting. Zürich: Haffmans, 1995. Pp. 991 [992]. 18.6 x 11.5 cm. Julian Barnes’s foreword translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251201875. (German).
Julian Barnes’s foreword appears on pp. 7-[16].
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. La France en automobile | A Motor-Flight Through France. Paris: Mercure de France/Folio, 2017. Pp. 208 [209] + [15]. 17.8 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Jean Pavans. ISBN: 9782072710926. (French).
Preface by Julian Barnes, originally written in 1995, but translated into French for the Mercure de France edition (2015).
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. Im Land der Schmerzen | In the Land of Pain. Bremen: Manholt, 2004. Pp. 102. 20.4 x 13 cm. ISBN: 3924903034. (German).
Julian Barnes’s introduction, afterword, and notes translated from the English by Bernhard Liesen. Daudet’s text translated from the French by Dirk Hemjeoltmanns.
Notes on this edition: Voltaire. Candide, or, Optimism. London: Folio Society, 2016. Pp. 202. 26.6 x 22.6 cm.
Translated by Tobias Smollett. Introduction by Julian Barnes. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Leather edition signed by Quentin Blake in an edition of 25 copies (not for sale to the public).
The limitation page states:
“THIS EDITION OF CANDIDE HAS BEEN TYPESET IN GARAMOND AT THE FOLIO SOCIETY, AND PRINTED ON MODIGLIANI PAPER BY GRAMMLICH, PLIEZHAUSEN, GERMANY. THE BINDING BY BELTZ FINE BOOKS, BAD LANGENSALZA, GERMANY, IS IN FULL NIGERIAN GOATSKIN LEATHER BLOCKED WITH A DESIGN BY THE ARTIST. THE EDITION IS LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES FOR SALE TO MEMBERS OF THE FOLIO SOCIETY, AND 25 LETTERED COPIES WHICH ARE NOT FOR SALE.”
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. בארץ המכאוב | In the Land of Pain. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Julian Barnes. Binyamina: Nahar Books, 2006. Pp. 89 + [7]. 20 x 11.6 cm. Translated by מיכה פרנקל (Micha Frenkel). ISBN: 9657303095. (Hebrew).
Inscribed to Julian Barnes by Reuven Miran.
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. La France en automobile | A Motor-Flight through France. Paris: Mercure de France, 2015. Pp.166 [167] + [9]. 20.5 x 14 cm. Translated by Jean Pavans. ISBN: 9782715241459. (French).
Preface by Julian Barnes, originally written in 1995, but translated into French in 2015. The preface appears on pp. 9-[23].
Notes on this edition: Ford Madox Ford. Parade’s End. London: Penguin Books, 2012. Pp. 836 + [10]. 19.7 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780141392196.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to this Penguin Classics reissue.
Notes on this edition: Frank O’Connor. The Best of Frank O’Connor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Pp. xxxviii, 673 + [1]. 20.6 x 12.3 cm.
Uncorrected Proof in orange paper covers. Edited and with an introduction by Julian Barnes pp. ix-xi. Part of the Everyman’s Library series, no. 321.
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.