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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Nothing to Be Frightened of. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 250. 19.8 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099523741.
First Vintage paperback edition for the U.K. market. Cover design by Suzanne Dean. This copy features to its front cover a round promotional sticker with a blurb from the Daily Telegraph.
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:
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”.
Notes on this edition: Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 190. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540588.
Vintage Book reissued their standard paperback edition of Flaubert’s Parrot as part of their “Vintage” author series. The front cover states in the upper-right corner “Vintage Barnes”.