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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Cooking by the Books.” Waterstone’s Guide to Books 1989/90. London: Waterstone & Co., 1989. Pp. 842 + [48]. 24.5 x 19.7 cm. ISBN: 0951258958.
Julian Barnes’s essay on cookery and cook books appears on pp. 477-478. The last 48 pages are unnumbered and encompass the index for the volume.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. The Noise of Time. London: Vintage, 2017. Pp. 183 [184]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9781784703325.
Waterstones issued an exclusive paperback edition of Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time. The book is identical to the standard Vintage paperback edition, except the cover of the Waterstones edition has French flaps with promotional blurbs printed to the flaps, as shown. Both editions share the same ISBN.