An Ice Cream War
by Boyd, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$73.43NZ$58.74
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About This Item
Hardback. Hamish Hamilton 1982.' An Ice Cream War ' by William Boyd. The book is in Hardback with d.j. First edition, first print. Dj is clean and bright and unclipped. Price has old label over it but price can still be seen. Gift message to ffep. Slight lean and a little dusty to fore-edge of text block. From the author of 'A Good Man in Africa'. Booker Prize shortlist/shortlisted. Not exlib etc and packed and sent with care.
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
- N K Burchill Rana Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10000746
- Title
- An Ice Cream War
- Author
- Boyd, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction; east africa; politics; humour; first world war; satire; booker shortlisted;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Booker Prize;
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N K Burchill Rana Books
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