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Notes on this edition: Strandboek. Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Atlas, 1993. Pp. 265. 20 x 12.4 cm. (Dutch).
A collection of short stories, including Julian Barnes’s “Dragons”. Translated as “Dragonders”, the story appears on pages 7-22.
No translator or editor listed to the title page or copyright page.
Notes on this edition: Outre-Manche | Cross Channel. Paris: Le Grand Livre du Mois, 1998. Pp. 247 + [9]. 21 x 14.5 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 2702816746. (French).
French Book of the Month Club edition published by Denoël.
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 3” [Artist Proof no. 3] from an artist’s proof set of 10.
The “blue edition” is described on the Palawan Press website as:
“Limited to 50 copies and signed by the writer and the artist. This edition comprises the etchings of the standard edition but in addition each page of the book is hand painted, and two individual prints, signed by the artist, are included. The bound book and the loose prints are enclosed in a sleeve and portfolio box in silver bookcloth.”
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “The Things You Know” in Sightlines. London: Vintage, 2001. Pp. 391 [392]. 19.8 x 12.8 cm. Edited by P. D. James and Harriet Harvey Wood with an introduction by Sue Townsend. ISBN: 0099422824.
The publication of Sightlines promotes and supports the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind’s Talking Books. All of the contributors offered their work without fee.
Julian Barnes’s short story “The Things You Know” appears on pp. 138-150 and was later published in his short story collection The Lemon Table (2004).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Do Outro Lado do Canal | Cross Channel. Porto: ASA Editores, 1999. Pp. 156 [157] + [3]. 21.4 x 14 cm. Translated by Luísa Feijó and Maria João Delgado. ISBN: 9724120155. (Portuguese – Portugal).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Outre-Manche | Cross Channel. Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1998. Pp. 247 + [9]. 20.5 x 13.9 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. (French).
This copy features a wrap-around promotional band, as pictured.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Al otro lado del Canal | Cross Channel. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1997. Pp. 208 + [8]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Carmen Francí and Juan Gabriel López Guix. ISBN: 8433908391. (Spanish).
The copy presented below is the second printing (May 1997): “Segunda edición: mayo 1997”.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Po drugiej stronie La Manche | Cross Channel. Warszawa: Prószyński i S-ka, 2003. Pp. 150 [151] + [1]. 20.2 x 14.2 cm. Translated by Magdalena Pietrzak-Merta. ISBN: 8373373047. (Polish).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Manş Ötesi | Cross Channel. Istanbul: Ayrinti Yayinlari, 1999. Pp. 175 + [1]. 19.5 x 13 cm. Translated by Serdar Rifat Kıroğlu. (Turkish).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Dover-Calais | Cross Channel. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1997. Pp. 271 [272]. 18.4 x 11.4 cm Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251003283. (German).