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, 2020, 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.

Polsslag | Pulse (Uitgeverij Atlas, 2011; Dutch)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Polsslag | Pulse. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Atlas, 2011. Pp. 252 [253] + [3]. 21 x 13.4 cm. Translated by Ronald Vlek. ISBN: 9789045018607. (Dutch).

Visit the Atlas website: http://www.atlascontact.nl/auteur/julian-barnes/

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories | “One of a Kind” (Penguin, 1988)


Notes on this edition: “One of a Kind” by Julian Barnes. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories. Edited with an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. London: Penguin, 1988.

Julian Barnes’s short story “One of a Kind” is published on pages 400-406. In this example, Barnes has signed his entry. Formerly from the library of book collector Rolland Comstock.

Nada que temer | Nothing to Be Frightened of (Editorial Anagrama, 2010; Spanish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Nada que temer | Nothing to Be Frightened of. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 2010. Pp. 300 + [4]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Jaime Zulaika. ISBN: 9788433975263. (Spanish).

The first printing was published in February 2010, with a second printing in May, as pictured below.