Notes on this edition: Ford Madox Ford. Parade’s End. London: Penguin Books, 2012. Pp. 836 + [10]. 19.7 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780141392196.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to this Penguin Classics reissue.
Month: August 2018
La seule histoire | The Only Story (Mercure de France, 2018; French)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. La seule histoire | The Only Story. Paris: Mercure de France, 2018. Pp. 259 [260] + [12]. 20.5 x 14 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 9782715247079. (French).
Printing information at the end of the novel state the book was printed in May 2018. The book was issued in September 2018.
The Best of Frank O’Connor | Uncorrected Proof (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009; Everyman’s Library #321)
Notes on this edition: Frank O’Connor. The Best of Frank O’Connor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Pp. xxxviii, 673 + [1]. 20.6 x 12.3 cm.
Uncorrected Proof in orange paper covers. Edited and with an introduction by Julian Barnes pp. ix-xi. Part of the Everyman’s Library series, no. 321.
The Reef | Edith Wharton (Everyman’s Library, 1996; UK Edition)
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. The Reef. London: Everyman’s Library / David Campbell Publishers, 1996. Pp. 290 + [6]. 21 x 13.1 cm. ISBN: 1857152018.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to volume by Edith Wharton (pp. ix-xviii). Part of the Everyman’s Library series, no. 201. Republished in Barnes’s collection of essays Through the Window.
This edition is paginated the same as the U.S. edition distributed by Alfred A. Knopf, though the dust jackets are different.
The Reef | Edith Wharton (Everyman’s Library, 1996; US Edition)
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. The Reef. New York: Everyman’s Library / Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 290 + [6]. 21 x 13.1 cm. ISBN: 0679447245.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to volume by Edith Wharton (pp. ix-xviii). Part of the Everyman’s Library series, no. 201. Republished in Barnes’s collection of essays Through the Window.
This edition is paginated the same as the U.K. edition distributed by Random House, though the dust jackets are different.
A Motor-Flight through France | Edith Wharton (Picador, 1995)
Notes on this edition: Edith Wharton. A Motor-Flight through France. London: Picador, 1995. Pp. 195 + [3]. 19 x 12.8 cm. ISBN: 9780330343978.
Julian Barnes wrote the introduction to this collection by Edith Wharton (pp. 1-14). Part of the Picador Travel Classics series.
The Only Story (London Review Bookshop, 2018; Limited Edition Leather)
Notes on this edition: The Only Story. London: London Review Bookshop, 2018. The book itself measures 22.2 x 14.8 cm. The slipcase measures 23.1 x 15.3 cm.
This is the full leather edition of the signed, limited edition in slip case. The London Review Bookshop also issued a quarter-leather and cloth limited edition. The limitation pages reads:
A special signed limited
First Edition
of
The Only Story
printed on
Longan Book Wove 150gsm paper.
Numbers 1 to 75 have been quarter-bound
in Harmatan Green 16 goatskin with
Dubletta cloth sides and contain one
facsimile page from the author’s notebook.
25 copies (i to xxv), plus 3 hors commerce,
have been fully bound in the same leather
and contain a portfolio of six facsimile pages
of early draft passages and notebook entries.
The book presented here is number 3 of the hors commerce edition mentioned above. It is identical to the full leather edition, except for the “hors commerce” designation.
The Only Story | Foyles Edition (Jonathan Cape, 2018)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Only Story. London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. Pp. 212 [213] + [3]. 22.3 x 14.4 cm. ISBN: 9781787330931.
In cooperation with Jonathan Cape, Foyles released a limited edition of Julian Barnes’s novel The Only Story with “an exclusive cream dust jacket and ribboned marker, and signed by Julian Barnes”. The edition was limited to 1,500 copies sold through Foyles book shops and website.
The book is nearly identical to the Jonathan Cape first hardback edition. Suzanne Dean, Vintage’s Creative Director, discusses designing the covers both editions on the Foyles website: http://www.foyles.co.uk/blog-Only-Story-Cover-Story
In the Land of Pain (Vintage, 2018)
Notes on this edition: Alphonse Daudet. In the Land of Pain. London: Vintage, 2018. Pp. 87 + [7]. 19.8 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9781784873455.
Edited and translated by Julian Barnes. Includes an introduction by Barnes (p. v-xv) and “A Note on Syphilis” (p. 82-87).
Man Booker at Birkbeck: Julian Barnes | Promotional Card & Poster (2017)
Notes on this item: Promotional card for an event titled, “Man Booker at Birkbeck: Julian Barnes”. Also featured is a promotional poster (42 x 29.5 cm) promoting the same event.
The event took place on Monday, 27 November 2017 at Birkbeck University of London, and featured Julian Barnes in conversation with Professor Russell Celyn Jones. Sponsored by the Man Booker Prize Foundation.