The Sense of an Ending
By Julian Barnes
 
First edition, first impression, signed by the author to the title page. London: Jonathan Cape, 2011.

Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Suzanne Dean, priced £12.99.

A fine copy, the binding square and firm with bright gilt. The contents are clean and fresh, featuring the publisher's black sprayed fore-edge.

The dust jacket fine, sharp and vibrant, showing no signs of wear or fading.

"The Sense of an Ending" is Julian Barnes's eleventh novel and the work that finally secured him the Man Booker Prize in 2011, after three previous shortlistings for "Flaubert's Parrot" (1984), "England, England" (1998), and "Arthur & George" (2005). A meditation on the fallibility of memory and the revisions we make to our own histories, the novel was met with widespread critical acclaim for its precision and depth. It was adapted into a major feature film in 2017.