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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Love, etc. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 249 + [1]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540168.
The copyright page states the book is a 7th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.
The cover design lines up with the cover art for Talking It Over.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 273 + [7]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540137.
The copyright page states the book is a 9th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.
The cover design lines up with the cover art for Love, etc.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Cross Channel. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 211 + [5]. 19.7 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780099540151.
The copyright page states the book is a 5th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Metroland. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 176. 19.6 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780099540069.
The copyright page states the book is a 6th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Staring at the Sun. New York: Perennial Library, 1988. Pp. 197 + [5]. 20.2 x 13.5 cm. ISBN: 0060971487.
First U.S. paperback edition. Cover illustration by Karen Katz.
Notes on this edition:
Julian Barnes. “Verbindungswewe,” “Dirty Story: Die Entstehung der Madame Bovary” & “Allseits akzeptierte Ansichten.” Der Rabe: Magazin fur jede , No. 47, Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1996. Pp. 253 + [3]. 17.9 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 3251100475.
Julian Barnes contributes three works to this issue of Der Rabe, also known as “Der Flaubert-Rabe.”
“Verbindungswewe” (pp. [107]-125; translated by Gertraude Krueger)
“Dirty Story: Die Entstehung der Madame Bovary” (pp. [144]-149; translated from the English by Volker Kriegel)
“Allseits akzeptierte Ansichten.” (pp. [200]-204; translated by Michael Walter and Volker Kriegel)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Zehn Vorschläge.” Von Büchern & Menschen. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1988. Pp. 176. 18 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 3627500024. (German).
Julian Barnes’s contribution, an excerpt from Flaubert’s Parrot, appears on pp. 96-99 and is translated by Michael Walter.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Through the Window: Seventeen Essays and a Short Story. London: Vintage Books, 2012. Pp. 243 + [3]. 19.8 x 12.8 cm.
Uncorrected Proof of the first U.K. Vintage edition. Inscribed by Julian Barnes to his bibliographer.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “EL SENTIDO DE UN FINAL.” Primeras páginas: Los escritores del HAY en sus propias palabras, Arcadia: Periodismo Cultural, 2013.
The opening passage from Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending is reprinted in Spanish on p. 4.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Words for Emile.” Atlas 11. Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Uitgeverij Atlas, 2011. Pp. 173 [174] + [2]. 21 x 13.5 cm. Part of a series, this is “Atlas 11.”
Julian Barnes contributed an essay to this festschrift for his Dutch publisher. The essay appears on pp. 10-11.