An Ice-Cream War
by Boyd, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0688019048
- ISBN 13
- 9780688019044
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
William Morrow & Co. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth-backed boards. First edition with full number line signed by Boyd to the title page. Board edges/text block edge insect-scarred. Else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is slightly scuffed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 408 pages; Signed by Author .
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
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47059
- Title
- An Ice-Cream War
- Author
- Boyd, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0688019048
- ISBN 13
- 9780688019044
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
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