paper covers – Page 68 – Julian Barnes Bibliography

Metroland (Haffmans Verlag, 1989; German; Paperback)

Notes on this edition: Metroland. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1989. Pp. 231 [232] + [8]. 18 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251011286

Cover art by Volker Kriegel. Marked as “Haffmans-Taschenbuch 128”.

The copy pictured above has a bookseller’s inventory/price sticker on the lower back cover that was not present at the time of publication.

The copy below is the second printing, as indicated by the publisher’s slip inserted into the inside cover. The publisher’s slip is unique to this copy, as it is Julian Barnes’s personal copy.

Flaubert’s Parrot (Picador, 1985)

Notes on this edition: Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Picador, 1985. Pp. 190 + [2]. 19.6 x 13 cm. £3.95. ISBN: 0330289764.

The book pictured is an 11th printing with a number line on the copyright page reading: “19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11”

The book below is the 10th printing with a number line on the copyright page reading: “19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10”

Flaubert’s Parrot (Vintage Books, 2012)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Vintage Books, 2012. Pp. 190 + [2]. 19.6 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540083.

Vintage issued the paperback edition of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot with an updated cover following the success of Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending in 2011. The cover lettering echoes the lettering on the jacket of the Jonathan Cape edition of the Man Booker Prize winning novel. Both covers were designed by Suzanne Dean. The edition pictured is a fifth printing with the number sequence on the copyright page: “6 8 10 9 7 5”.

Below is an example of the 14th printing of the same Vintage Books edition:

England, England | Rejacketed (Vintage Books, 2012)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. England, England. London: Vintage Books, 2012. Pp. 266. 19.6 x 12.7 cm. ISBN: 9780099526544.

Vintage issued the paperback edition of Julian Barnes’s England, England with an updated cover following the success of Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending in 2011. The cover lettering echoes the lettering on the jacket of the Jonathan Cape edition of the Man Booker Prize winning novel. Both covers were designed by Suzanne Dean. The edition pictured is a sixth printing with the number sequence on the copyright page: “6 8 10 9 7”.