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Note on this edition: Julian Barnes. Arthur & George. [Paris]: Mercure de France / Folio, 2007. Pp. 598 [599] + [9]. 17.8 x 10.7 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 9782070348527. (French).
The Folio edition follows the first French edition published in 2007.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Interference.” Knopf Short Story Sampler, Spring 1996. Pp. 85 + [7]. 21.2 x 13.9 cm.
This sampler includes a mock-up of the title page for Barnes’s short story collection Cross Channel. The story itself appears on pp. 5-26.
Other books included in this sampler:
Notes on this edition: “Harmony” by Julian Barnes. London: Granta, 2009. Issue 109 (“Work”). Pp. 97-122. Edited by John Freeman. ISBN: 9781905881130.
Illustration accompanying Barnes’s story by George Butler.
Others authors included in this volume: Daniel Alarcón, Donald Ray Pollock, Steven Hall, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann, Kent Haruf, Mikhael Subotzky, Patrick Waterhouse, Brad Watson, Yiyun Li, Aminatta Forna, Jim Crace, Martin Kimani, Peter Stothard, Ruchir Joshi, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Joshua Ferris, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Staring at the Sun. London: Picador, 1987. Pp. 195 + [7]. 19.6 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 0330299301.
Published by Picador (Pan Books) in association with Jonathan Cape. Cover design by Trickett & Webb Limited. Cover price listed at £3.50, but this copy has a bookstore sticker from “Waterstone’s” listing the price as £4.03.
Below is a second printing of the Picador edition:
Notes on this edition: Granta: Best of Young British Novelists, issue 7 (Granta, 1983). ISSN: 0017-3231; ISBN: 0140068333. Edited by Bill Buford and distributed by Penguin Books.
First appearance of Julian Barnes’s story “Emma Bovary’s Eyes” which later appeared as a chapter in his novel Flaubert’s Parrot. The Granta version contains some textual differences from the finished novel and appears on pages 59-67.
Other authors featured in this collection include: Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Ursula Bentley, William Boyd, Buchi Emecheta, Maggie Gee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Judd, Adam Mars-Jones, Ian McEwan, Shiva Naipaul, Philip Norman, Christopher Priest, Salman Rushdie, Lisa de Terán, Clive Sinclair, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, A. N. Wilson.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “1981” & “Ansprache des Shakespeare-Preisträgers 1993.” Der Rabe: Magazin fur jede , No. 42, Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1995. Pp. 242 + [14]. 18 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 3251100424.
Julian Barnes contributes two works to this issue of Der Rabe. “1981” (pp. [11]-25) and “Ansprache des Shakespeare-Preisträgers 1993” (pp. [223]-231). Both pieces were translated by Gertraude Krueger.
Notes on this edition: Volker Kriegel. The Truth about Dogs. London: Bloomsbury, 1990. Pp. 121 + [7]. 15.1 x 9.2 cm. Translated and introduced by Julian Barnes. Introduction on pages 7-10.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Evermore. London: Penguin Books, 1996. Pp. 42 [43] + [5]. 13.7 x 10.5 cm. ISBN: 9780140260410.
This small format paperback features the short story “Evermore” from Julian Barnes’s collection Cross Channel. Published at 75p in the UK and $1.99 in Canada.
Pictures by Howard Hodgkin included. Two deluxe, signed, limited editions of this story were published by the Palawan Press. One edition was limited to 50 copies and the other to 150 copies.
A small number of the Penguin paperback were signed by Howard Hodgkin, as shown in the last picture above. This particular copy was also signed by Julian Barnes to his bibliographer in July 2018.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Una historia del mundo en diez capítulos y medio | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1990. Pp. 359 + [9]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Maribel de Juan. ISBN: 8433911279.
Promotional band pictured from the specimen copy in Julian Barnes’s personal collection.
Notes on this edition: Dan Kavanagh. Going to the Dogs. London: Penguin Books, 1988. Pp. 207 [208]. 18 x 11 cm. ISBN: 0140103376.
Julian Barnes’s fourth novel published under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. First U.K. paperback edition following the publication of the first hardback edition by Viking in 1987.