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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Only Story. London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. Pp. 213 + [3]. 21.5 x 13.4 cm.
Uncorrected Proof distributed in 2017 in advance anticipation of the publication of The Only Story by Jonathan Cape. Publication date stated as ’01 February 2018′ at a price of £14.99.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Pp. 273 + [1]. 21.6 x 13.7 cm.
Uncorrected Proof in stiff white card wrappers reproducing dust jacket illustration in black and white. Lettered in black, except for ‘UNCORRECTED PROOF’ in white along bottom of front cover. Issued with proof jacket that states ‘PROOF ONLY’ and provides provisional publication date of ’11 July 1991′ on back flap. This provisional date is also listed to the back cover of the proof along with a provisional price of £13.99.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. İngiltere İngiltere’ye karşı | England, England. Istanbul: Ayrinti Yayinlari, 2003. Pp. 286 + [2]. 19.4 x 12.9 cm. Translated by Serdar Rıfat Kırkoğlu. ISBN: 9789755393018. (Turkish).
Notes on this edition: First Canadian edition – Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1995. $16.95.
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Title Page: JULIAN BARNES | Letters | from | London | [Vintage Canada ‘sun’ device] | Vintage Canada | A Division of Random House of Canada
Copyright Page: Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. | Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, | a division of Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto, | and simultaneously in the United States by Vintage Books, | a division of Random House, Inc., New York. | All of the material in this work was originally published | in The New Yorker, in slightly different form. | Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission | to reprint previously published material: | EMI Music Publishing: Excerpt from “Taxman,” words and music by George Harrison, | copyright © 1966 by Northern Songs. All rights controlled and administered by EMI | Blackwood Music Inc., under license from ATV Music (BMI). All rights reserved. | International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission of EMI Music Publishing. | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.: Excerpt from “Bridge for the Living” from Collected Poems | by Philip Larkin, copyright © 1988, 1989 by the Estate of Philip Larkin; excerpts from | Mrs. Thatcher’s Minister by Alan Clark, copyright © 1993 by Alan Clark. Reprinted by | permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. HarperCollins Publishers: Selected excerpts | from The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher. Copyright © 1993 by Margaret | Thatcher. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. | Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | Letters from London | ISBN 0-394-22453-1 | 1. Great Britain—Politics and government—1979— —Humor. | 2. Great Britain—Humor. I. Title. | PR6052.A6657L47 1995 824’.914 C95-930226-3 | BOOK DESIGN BY CATHRYN S. AISON | Manufactured in the United States of America | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Collation: 19.9 x 12.9 cm. Pp. [i-vi] vii-xv [xvi, 1-2] 3-320. [i]: ‘JULIAN BARNES | Letters from London | Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England, in | 1946, was educated at Oxford University, and now | lives in London. He is the author of seven novels— | Metroland, Before She Met Me, Flaubert’s Parrot, Star- | ing at the Sun, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, I Talking It Over, and The Porcupine.’. [ii]: ‘Books by JULIAN BARNES | 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’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘to Jay and Helen’. [vi]: blank. vii-viii: contents. ix-xv: preface. [xvi]: blank. [1]: ‘Letters from London’. [2]: blank. 3-311: text. [312]: blank. 313-320: index.
General description: Binding 19.9 x 12.9 cm. As in A13(b), but with blurbs on lower panel from Jay McInerney, The Toronto Star, and The New York Review of Books.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Ο ΣΚΑΝΤΖΌΧΟΙΡΟΣ | The Porcupine. Athens: Ekdoseis Psychogios, 1993. Pp. 143 + [1]. 20.8 x 13.1 cm. Translated by Demosthenes Kourtovik [ΔΗΜΟΣΘΕΝΗΣ ΚΟΥΡΤΟΒΙΚ]. ISBN: 9602740477. (Greek).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. El puercoespín | The Porcupine. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1994. Pp. 174 + [2]. 20 x 14 cm. Translated by Francisco Javier Calzada. ISBN: 8433906429. (Spanish).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Porcupine. London: Picador, 1993. Pp. 138. 19.7 x 13 cm. ISBN: 033032828x. £4.99.
First U.K. paperback edition with illustration to cover by Tim Jonke.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Porcupine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Pp. 139 + [1]. 19 x 12 cm. Uncorrected Proof in sage wraps with black lettering. The statement, ‘THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED PROOF’ on top of upper panel. Provisional publication date set for 20 November 1992 at a provisional price of $17.00.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Porcupine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. Pp. 139 + [1]. 20.2 x 13.6 cm.
Uncorrected Proof in stiff white card wrappers reproducing dust jacket illustration in black and white. Lettered in black, except for ‘UNCORRECTED PROOF’ in white along bottom of front cover.
Provisional UK Publication date of 5 November 1992 at a provisional price of £9.99.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Няма нищо страшно | Nothing to Be Frightened of. Sofia: Obsidian Press, 2008. Pp. 302 [303] + [1]. 20 x 12.9 cm. Translated by Ljubomir Nikolov. ISBN: 9789547691926. (Bulgarian).