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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Jonathan Cape, 1989. Reader’s Collection edition.
The Reader’s Collection edition is the first Jonathan Cape edition with the addition of a special book plate designating it as part of the “Reader’s Collection” series. Prior to publication, the “Reader’s Collection” distributed a sample chapter of the novel.
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.