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An Ice Cream War
by Boyd, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near Fine/very near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 15-408, [2] pp. Quarter grey cloth over light grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A sharp copy of Boyd's novel, set in East Africa just before the outbreak of the First World War.
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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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013261
- Title
- An Ice Cream War
- Author
- Boyd, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
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Evening Star Books
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