Notes on this edition: The Borzoi Reader. Alfred A. Knopf, Spring 2001. Complimentary promotional item containing information and an excerpt from Julian Barnes’s novel Love, etc. published by Alfred A. Knopf. Barnes’s excerpt appears on pages 22-23. Also includes quote from Barnes’s editor at Knopf Gary Fisketjon.
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England, England (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
Notes on this edition: First American edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. $23.00.
Descriptive Bibliography:
Title Page: ENGLAND, ENGLAND | Julian Barnes | [Knopf device] | Alfred A. Knopf New York 1999
Copyright Page: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. | Copyright © 1998 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved under International and Pan-American | Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States | by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. | Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. | www.randomhouse.com | Originally published in Great Britain by | Jonathan Cape, London, in 1998. | Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered | trademarks of Random House, Inc. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | England, England / Julian Barnes.—1st American ed. | p. cm. | ISBN 0-375-40582-8 (alk. paper) | I. Title. | PR6052.A6657E54 1999 | 823’.914—dc21 98-46170 | CIP | Manufactured in the United States of America | First American Edition
Collation: 21.1 x 14.2 cm. Untrimmed pages. Pp. [i-viii, 1-2] 3-25 [26-28] 29-245 [246-248] 249-275 [276-280] [Note: no even page numbers were printed]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘ALSO BY JULIAN BARNES | 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 | Letters from London | Cross Channel’. [iii]: ‘ENGLAND, | ENGLAND’. [iv]: blank. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘To Pat’. [viii]: blank. [1]: ‘1 : ENGLAND’. [2]: blank. 3-[26]: text. [27]: ‘2 : ENGLAND, | ENGLAND’. [28]-245: text. [246]: blank. [247]: ‘3 : ANGLIA’. [248]: blank. 249-275: text. [276]: blank. [277]: ‘A NOTE ON THE TYPE | THIS BOOK was set in Granjon, a type named in compliment | to Robert Granjon, a type cutter and printer active in Antwerp, | Lyons, Rome, and Paris from 1523 to 1590. Granjon, the boldest | and most original designer of his time, was one of the first to prac- | tice the trade of typefounder apart from that of printer. Linotype | Granjon was designed by George W. Jones, who based his draw- | ings on a face used by Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in his | beautiful French books. Granjon more closely resembles Gara- | mond’s own type than do any of the various modern faces that | bear his name. | Composed by Stratford Publishing Services, | Brattleboro, Vermont | Printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, | Harrisonburg, Virginia’. [278-280]: blank.
General description: Binding 22 x 14.7 cm. Cream boards, gold blocked on brown board spine. White endpapers. Dust jacket in cream and brown with white flaps. Lettering is white on upper and lower panels and black on flaps. Jacket illustration by Bill Gregory with design by Carol Devine Carson. Photograph of the author by Jillian Edelstein located on back flap.
LEFT: Letter to Booksellers Promoting England, England: Alfred A. Knopf sent letters to booksellers accompanied by a signed copy of Julian Barnes’s novel in an attempt to promote the sale of pre-signed copies.
RIGHT: Advance Review Copy Slip included in select copies of the first edition and distributed to reviewers prior to publication.
“The Stowaway” | Free Sample Chapter (Reader’s Collection, 1989)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “The Stowaway” from A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. The Reader’s Collection, 1989. Pp.28. 23 x 15.5 cm.
Sample chapter from Julian Barnes’s novel bound in paper covers. Stated on the inside pages: “This free sample chapter is one of the four specially printed for the Summer Reader’s Collection […]”.
The sample chapter includes a reproduction of the novel’s title page and copyright page. As this is the only sample examined, it remains unclear why the Barnes chapter was bound in a cover featuring cover art from Gita Mehta’s Raj.
Nothing to Be Frightened Of | Uncorrected Proof (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Nothing to Be Frightened Of. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Pp. 241 + [3]. 21.3 x 14.3 cm.
Uncorrected Proof of the American edition bound in pale grey paper cover with black lettering. Provisional publication date set for “5 September 2008” with a list price of $24. Loosely inserted are two promotional items: one blue sheet of paper with blurbs from British press and a stapled copy of a profile/interview with Julian Barnes by Kate Summerscale.
Flaubert & Louise: Letters & Impressions (Charles Hobson, 1988; Prospectus)
Notes on this edition: In 1988, artist Charles Hobson created an limited edition artists’ book titled Flaubert & Louise: Letters & Impressions. The contents of the book include letters written by Gustave Flaubert to his lover Louise Colet. Also included are excerpts from Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot in which he fictionalized Colet’s voice in a chapter titled, “Louise Colet’s Version”. Hobson merges Flaubert’s real letters with Barnes’s fictional text to create a sense of an exchange between the couple.
The item presented in the photos is a prospectus for the artists’ book prepared at the time of the publication of the work in 1988. 21.5 x 14 cm.
A copy of the original artists’ book currently sells for $3,000 on Hobson’s website. Chronicle Books also issued a spiral bound book by Hobson titled Paris Encounters that contains a section devoted to his artistic creation Flaubert & Louise. Charles Hobson writes about his creative process for this work in an exhibition catalog in 2002: http://www.charleshobson.com/Hobson_Catalog.pdf