Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Jonathan Cape, 2020. Pp. 375 + [1]. 22.8 x 15.3 cm. ISBN: 9781787332898.
This updated edition includes seven new essays not present in the first edition (2015).
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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Jonathan Cape, 2020. Pp. 375 + [1]. 22.8 x 15.3 cm. ISBN: 9781787332898.
This updated edition includes seven new essays not present in the first edition (2015).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Metroland. Jonathan Cape, 1992. Pp. 176. 20.4 x 12.7 cm. ISBN: 0224017624.
Second hardback edition of Julian Barnes’s first novel. The text block and pagination are unchanged from the first Jonathan Cape edition (1980). This example is a former library copy.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Pp. 273 + [5]. 21.6 x 13.5 cm. ISBN: 0224031570.
Paperback edition published by Jonathan Cape the same year and with the same cover illustration by Fraser Taylor.
Notes on this item: Promotional poster for Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. Approximately 59.3 x 41.9 cm.
This poster is signed by Julian Barnes.
Notes on this item: Promotional poster for Julian Barnes’s The Lemon Table. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004. Approximately 84 x 59.5 cm.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Duffy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Pp. 180 [181] + [3]. 20 x 13.8 cm.
Uncorrected Proof in red wraps with black lettering. Inscribed by Julian Barnes in fountain ink and as his pseudonym Dan Kavanagh in ballpoint. Inserted into the proof is a letter to Barnes from Marilyn Edwards at Jonathan Cape stating, “I have just discovered one solitary proof of DUFFY that I thought you might like to have as they can be useful and anyway they are nice things to have.”
Notes on this item: Promotional postcard for The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Created by Jonathan Cape in 2011.
Julian Barnes has written to the back of the postcard indicating this is the “2nd State” postcard. The first state postcard was dated 29 November 2011.
Notes on this item: Promotional postcard for The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Created by Jonathan Cape in 2011.
Julian Barnes has written to the back of the postcard indicating this is the “1st State” (dated 29 November 2011).
Notes on this item: Promotional Poster for A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Jonathan Cape, 1989.
Large format promotional poster featuring the cover art for the Jonathan Cape edition of Julian Barnes’s novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Arthur & George. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. Pp. 360. 29.7 x 21 cm.
Unbound proof of the Jonathan Cape edition of Arthur & George. Printed to one side of each page of A4 paper, this proof shows crop marks to corners.