Pulse (Jonathan Cape, 2011)


Notes on this edition: First edition – London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. £16.99. 

Descriptive Bibliography: 

Title Page: PULSE | [line] | Julian Barnes | [Jonathan Cape device] | JONATHAN CAPE | LONDON

Copyright Page: Published by Jonathan Cape 2011 | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 | Copyright © Julian Barnes 2011 | Julian Barnes has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and | Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work | This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of | trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without | the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in | which it is published and without a similar condition, including this | condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser | This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product | of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual | persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. | While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and | Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author | assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. | Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any | responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. | First published in Great Britain in 2011 by | Jonathan Cape | Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, | London SW1V 2SA | www.rbooks.co.uk | Addresses for companies within The Random House Group Limited can be found at: | www.randomhouse.co.uk/offices.htm | The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 | A CIP catalogue record for this book | is available from the British Library | ISBN 9780224091084 | ISBN 9780224093408 (Waterstone’s Limited Edition) | [FSC® logo] | The Random House Group Limited supports The Forest Stewardship | Council (FSC), the leading international forest certification organisation. All our | titles that are printed on Greenpeace approved FSC certified paper carry the FSC logo. | Our paper procurement policy can be found at: www.rbooks.co.uk/environment | Typeset in Bembo by Palimpsest Book Production Limited, | Falkirk, Stirlingshire | | Printed and bound in Great Britain by | Clays Ltd, St Ives plc

Collation: 21.5 x 13.6 cm. Pp. [i-viii, 1-3] 4-18 [19] 20-32 [33] 34-47 [48] 49-60 [61] 62-78 [79] 80-92 [93] 94-105 [106] 107-120 [121] 122-127 [128-131] 132-144 [145] 146-157 [158] 159-184 [185] 186-195 [196] 197-228 [229-232]. [i]: ‘PULSE | [line]’. [ii]: ‘By the same author | FICTION | 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 | Cross Channel | England, England | Love, Etc | The Lemon Table | Arthur & George | NON-FICTION | Letters From London 1990–1995 | Something To Declare | The Pedant In The Kitchen | Nothing To Be Frightened Of | TRANSLATION | In The Land Of Pain | by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘for Pat’. [vi]: [previous publication information]. [vii]: [Contents]. [viii]: blank. [1]: ‘ONE | [line]’. [2]: blank. 3-[128]: text. [129]: ‘TWO | [line]’. [130]: blank. [131]-228: text. [229]: blank. [229-232]: blank.

General description: Binding 22.2 x 14.3 cm. Black cloth boards stamped in silver lettering to spine. Dark grey endpapers. Trimmed fore edge. Back flap of dust jacket features an author photograph by Alan Edwards. Jacket design by Suzanne Dean.

Stories included: East Wind | At Phil & Joanna’s 1: 60/40 | Sleeping with John Updike | At Phil & Joanna’s 2: Marmalade | Gardeners’ World | At Phil & Joanna’s 3: Look, No Hands | Trespass | At Phil & Joanna’s 4: One in Five | Marriage Lines | The Limner | Complicity | Harmony | Carcassonne | Pulse

The Lemon Table (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)


Notes on this edition: First American edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. $22.95.

Descriptive Bibliography: 

Title Page: The Lemon Table | STORIES | Julian Barnes | [Knopf device] Alfred A. Knopf  NEW YORK  2004

Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF | COPYRIGHT © 2004 BY JULIAN BARNES | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND PAN-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT | CONVENTIONS. PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC., NEW YORK. DISTRIBUTED BY | RANDOM HOUSE, INC., NEW YORK | WWW.AAKNOPF.COM | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY JONATHAN CAPE, AN IMPRINT OF | THE RANDOM HOUSE GROUP LIMITED, LONDON. | KNOPF, BORZOI BOOKS, AND THE COLOPHON ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS | OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. | SOME STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION WERE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE | FOLLOWING: “APPETITE” IN ARETÉ, “THE SILENCE” AND “KNOWING FRENCH” | IN GRANTA, “A SHORT HISTORY OF HAIRDRESSING,” “THE STORY OF MATS | ISRAELSON,” “HYGIENE,” “THE REVIVAL,” “BARK,” AND “THE FRUIT CAGE” IN THE | NEW YORKER, “VIGILANCE” IN THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, AND “THE THINGS YOU KNOW” IN SIGHTLINES, EDITED BY P. D. JAMES (VINTAGE UK, 2001). | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA | BARNES, JULIAN. | THE LEMON TABLE / JULIAN BARNES. | P.  CM. | ISBN 1-4000-4214-3 | 1. AGING—FICTION. 2. AGED—FICTION. I. TITLE. | PR6052.A6657L46 2004 | 823’.914—DC22 2003060481 | MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

Collation: 19 x 13.1 cm. Pp. [i-x, 1-2] 3-25 [26-28] 29-56 [57-58] 59-75 [76-78] 79-95 [96-98] 99-115 [116-118] 119-136 [137-138] 139-154 [155-156] 157-180 [181-182] 183-197 [198-200] 201-226 [227-228] 229-241 [242-246]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘BY THE SAME AUTHOR | FICTION | 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 | CROSS CHANNEL | ENGLAND, ENGLAND | LOVE, ETC. | NONFICTION | LETTERS FROM LONDON, 1990–1995 | SOMETHING TO DECLARE | THE PEDANT IN THE KITCHEN | TRANSLATION | IN THE LAND OF PAIN by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: ‘The Lemon Table’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘to Pat’. [viii]: blank. [ix]: contents. [x]: blank. [1]: ‘A Short History of Hairdressing’. [2]: blank. 3-25: text. [26]: blank. [27]: ‘The Story of Mats Israelson’. [28]: blank. 29-56: text. [57]: ‘The Things You Know’. [58]: blank. 59-75: text. [76]: blank. [77]: ‘Hygiene’. [78]: blank. 79-95: text. [96]: blank. [97]: ‘The Revival’. [98]: blank. 99-115: text. [116]: blank. [117]: ‘Vigilance’. [118]: blank. 119-136: text. [137]: ‘Bark’. [138]: blank. 139-154: text. [155]: ‘Knowing French’. [156]: blank. 157-180: text. [181]: ‘Appetite’. [182]: blank. 183-197: text. [198]: blank. [199]: ‘The Fruit Cage’. [200]: blank. 201-226: text. [227]: ‘The Silence’. [228]: blank. 229-241: text. [242]: blank. [243]: ‘A NOTE ON THE TYPE | The text of this book was set in Weiss, a type- | face designed in Germany by Emil Rudolf Weiss | (1875-1942). The design of the roman was completed | in 1928 and that of the italic in 1931. Both are well- | balanced and even in color, and both reflect | the subtle skill of a fine calligrapher. | COMPOSED BY | Creative Graphics, Allentown, Pennsylvania | PRINTED AND BOUND BY | R. R. Donnelley and Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia | DESIGNED BY | Iris Weinstein’. [244-246]: blank.

General description: Binding 19.8 x 14.1 cm. Maroon boards, red quarter board gold blocked on spine. White endpapers. Colored dust jacket lettered in grey, green and yellow on the upper panel; blue and  yellow on the spine; and black on lower panel. Flaps are white with black lettering. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson and Abby Weintraub. Author photograph by Jillian Edelstein on back flap.


Related edition: Julian Barnes. The Lemon Table. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. The book went through a “Second Printing Before Publication”, as noted in the copyright page below:

Areté Magazine | “Appetite” (Issue 2: Spring/Summer 2000)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Appetite.” Areté Magazine, Issue 2 (Spring/Summer 2000): [53]-61. Areté Magazine is edited by Craig Raine.

Black Water 2 | “A Self-Possessed Woman” (Clarkson Potter, 1990)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “A Self-Possessed Woman.” Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic. Edited by Alberto Manguel. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1990. Pp. 941 + [7]. 19.7 x 13 cm. ISBN: 0517575590.

Julian Barnes’s story appears on pp. [444]-459.

Travelling Light: Punch Goes Abroad | “On the Terrace” (Punch, 1988)


Notes on this edition: Travelling Light: Punch Goes Abroad. Edited by Susan Jeffreys. Foreword by Barry Humphries. London: Punch, 1988. Pp. 187 + [5]. 25.3 x 18.4 cm. ISBN: 0246133244.

Julian Barnes’s short story “On the Terrace” appears on pp. 70-74.

The Faber Book of Utopias (Faber and Faber, 1999)


Notes on this edition: The Faber Book of Utopias. Edited by John Carey. London: Faber and Faber, 1999. Pp. 531 + [3]. 24 x 16 cm. ISBN: 9780571197859.

Julian Barnes contributes an excerpt from the chapter “The Dream” from his novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, pp. 483-487. The excerpt is titled “Having What You Want”.

Das Winterlesebuch | “Der 50-Pence-Nikolaus” (Wilhelm Heyne, 1999; German)


Notes on this edition: Das Winterlesebuch: Geschichten für lange Winterabende. Wilhelm Heyne, 1999. Pp. 377 + [7]. 18 x 11.5 cm. ISBN: 3453161416. (German).

Reprints Dan Kavanagh’s short story “Der 50-Pence-Nikolaus” (translated by Gertraude Krueger): pp. 57-[64]. Originally published in Time Out magazine.

Cross Channel | Unbound Proof (Jonathan Cape, 1996; Author’s Copy)


Notes on this edition: Cross Channel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1996.

This loose, unbound sheet uncorrected galley proof is from Julian Barnes’s personal collection. Printed by “intype: input typsetting”, these loose proofs are printed on one side of each sheet and show crop marks for future sizing.

Evermore | Standard Edition 1/150 (Palawan Press, 1996)


Notes on this edition: Evermore. London: Palawan Press, 1996.

Julian Barnes’s story “Everymore” was privately printed by Palawan Press in two limited editions. The most limited “Blue Edition” was limited to 50 copies. The “Standard Edition” was limited to 150 copies. Both editions feature text by Julian Barnes with prints by Howard Hodgkin.

The example presented here is the author’s personal copy “AP 4” [Artist Proof no. 4] from an artist’s proof set of 15.

The “Standard Edition” is described on the Palawan Press website as:

“Limited to 150 copies numbered and signed by the writer and the artist. The book, in hand painted blue wrappers, comprises six original etchings. The bound book is encased in a silver clothbound sleeve and enclosed in a cardboard box and sleeve.”

In dieser einen stillen Nacht | “The 50p Santa” by Dan Kavanagh (Patmos, 2003; German)


Notes on this edition: In dieser einen stillen Nacht: Geschichten und Gedichte zur Weihnachtszeit. Edited by Volker Fabricius. Düsseldorf: Patmos, 2003. Pp. 208 + [2]. 20.9 x 12.7 cm. ISBN: 3491450268. (German).

Publishes Dan Kavanagh’s short story “The 50p Santa” as “Der 50-Pfennig-Weihnachtsmann” pp. 168-177.