Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Buka Vremena | The Noise of Time. Zagreb: Opus Gradna, 2017. Pp. 176 + [4]. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Translated by Bartol Fuchs. ISBN: 9789538124037. (Croatian).
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Arthur & George (Compactos Anagrama, 2017; Spanish)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Arthur & George. Barcelona: Compactos Anagrama, 2017. Pp. 523 + [5]. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Jaime Zulaika. ISBN: 9788433973245. (Spanish).
The second printing of Editorial Anagrama’s “Compactos” edition was published in April 2017. The first printing was in June 2008.
Niveles de vida | Levels of Life (Compactos Anagrama, 2017; Spanish)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Niveles de vida | Levels of Life. Barcelona: Compactos Anagrama, 2017. Pp. 143 + [9]. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Jaime Zulaika. ISBN: 9788433960023. (Spanish).
This example is the first Compact edition of Levels of Life, published in June 2017.
El sentido de un final | The Sense of an Ending (Compactos Anagrama, 2017; Spanish)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. El sentido de un final | The Sense of an Ending. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama Compactos, 2017. Pp. 186 + [6]. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Jaime Zulaika. ISBN: 9788433977373. (Spanish).
The example above of the “Compactos” edition is the third printing published in July 2017.
Below are examples of later printings in 2018 and 2021.
Alsof het voorbij is | The Sense of an Ending (Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, 2017; Dutch)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Alsof het voorbij is | The Sense of an Ending. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, 2017. Pp. 158 + [2]. 21 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Ronald Vlek. ISBN: 9789025450571. (Dutch).
Movie tie-in edition of the Dutch translation.
Visit the Atlas website: http://www.atlascontact.nl/auteur/julian-barnes/
УРОВНИ ЖИЗНИ | Levels of Life (Eksmo, 2017; Russian)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. УРОВНИ ЖИЗНИ | Levels of Life. Eksmo, 2017. Pp. 189 + [3]. 14 x 10 cm. Translated by Елена Петровoй (Elena Petrovoy). ISBN: 9785699970810. (Russian).
Der Zitronentisch: Erzählungen | The Lemon Table: Stories (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2017; German)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Der Zitronentisch Erzählungen | The Lemon Table. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2017. Pp. 268 [269] + [3]. 19 x 12.4 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 9783462050318. (German).
Originally translated in 2005, this example is a new edition of the German translation.
Julian Barnes by Laura Cumming (Book Trust, 1990; Pamphlet)
Notes on this edition: Laura Cumming. Julian Barnes. London: Book Trust in Conjunction with the British Council, 1990.
Pamphlet with three folds making four panels per side. Measures 10 x 21 cm when folded. Includes biographical information written by Laura Cumming, a short bibliography of Barnes’s novels, blurbs from critics, and Barnes’s photo and facsimile signature to the front panel.
Love, etc. (Chivers Press | Thorndike Press, 2001; Large Print)
Notes on this edition: Love, etc. Bath, England: Chivers Press and Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, 2001. Pp. 268 [269] + [5]. 21.6 x 13.7 cm. ISBN (UK): 0754045102; ISBN (US): 0786233354.
Large Print Edition published simultaneously by Chivers Press and Thorndike Press for U.K. and U.S. distribution. The hardback and paperback editions appear virtually identical. The hardback pictured above is from Julian Barnes’s personal collection and shows extreme sun bleaching to the spine.
Below, the paperback example shows stamps and markings as a former library book.
“The Stowaway” | Free Sample Chapter (Reader’s Collection, 1989)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “The Stowaway” from A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. The Reader’s Collection, 1989. Pp.28. 23 x 15.5 cm.
Sample chapter from Julian Barnes’s novel bound in paper covers. Stated on the inside pages: “This free sample chapter is one of the four specially printed for the Summer Reader’s Collection […]”.
The sample chapter includes a reproduction of the novel’s title page and copyright page. As this is the only sample examined, it remains unclear why the Barnes chapter was bound in a cover featuring cover art from Gita Mehta’s Raj.