Ice-cream War by Boyd, William - 1982-09-13

H. Hamilton, 1982. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hamish Hamilton, 1983. Hardcover. Good/Good. Book Club Association. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. There are marks within the book, the text remains clear. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is strong and the book charming. GK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982 0241108683. First edition. First printing. Hardback. No annotations or inscriptions. Mylar-protected DW is NOT price-clipped. Author's difficult to find third book. 370 pp. 14 cms. by 22 cms. Ex-university library with usual stamps. There is a (water?) stain down the join of the pages 20 and 21. Otherwise VG/VG in unclipped DW. The novel evokes suggestions of the early Evelyn Waugh as a critic of The New York Times wrote at its time of publication. An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict,. What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop. As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. VG, Shelfwear, two small corner bumps, mild spine lean/VG+, Edgewear, tear to bottom of front flap hinge, indentations. Tragicomic drama. Jacket illustration by Paul Webb. Expanded condition report/photo on request..

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982-09-13. Hardcover. Good. 3.1976 in x 21.5836 in x 13.9894 in.

London : H. Hamilton, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 370 pages; 22 cm. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects Africa, East; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Tanzania; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Historical fiction. Summary: American, German, and British lives in Eastern Africa were turned upside down by World War I. Settlers in Eastern Africa, once friendly neighbours, reluctantly became enemies. As millions were slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous and little-reported campaign was being waged in East Africa - a war continued after the Armistice because no one told them to stop. This is a story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, but it also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.