AN ICE-CREAM WAR.
by BOYD, William, 1952- :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Hamish Hamilton, (1982). First edition. His third novel - "It is far too hot for sustained fighting ... we will all melt like ice-cream in the sun". Evelyn Waugh meets John Buchan as eccentric settlers take up arms in the East African Campaign of the First World War. Demy 8vo (23cm). [xii],370,[ii]pp. Map. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good, bright, clean and sound copy in the Paul Webb dust-jacket - also very good.
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
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45603
- Title
- AN ICE-CREAM WAR.
- Author
- BOYD, William, 1952- :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Hamish Hamilton, (1982).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Fiction
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- First Edition
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