AN Ice-cream War
by Boyd, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140065717
- ISBN 13
- 9780140065718
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Penguin Books, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very Good condition. General shelf and handling wear. Light tanning to cover and pages. Interior is clean with a tight spine. 383 pp.
Synopsis
William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa , won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War , was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005490800
- Title
- AN Ice-cream War
- Author
- Boyd, William
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140065717
- ISBN 13
- 9780140065718
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- WHAR.670 AFRICA FICTION GENERAL, , , , , , , ,
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
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- Trade Paperback
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....