By William Boyd
London   Hamish Hamilton
9" by 6" 370pp
An excellent signed first edition of William Boyd's Booker-nominated popular dark comedy, signed by the author to the title page.
By William Boyd

1982 An Ice Cream War

London   Hamish Hamilton
9" by 6" 370pp
An excellent signed first edition of William Boyd's Booker-nominated popular dark comedy, signed by the author to the title page.
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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Signed by the author to the title page.

'An Ice Cream War' is a black comedy set during the First World War, and was nominated for a Booker Prize in 1982. It focuses on the East African Campaign battled between British and German forces.

William Boyd is a prolific Scottish novelist and short story writer, known for 'A Good Man in Africa' and 'Any Human Heart' as well as this popular title.

Complete with the loosely inserted slip detailing a signing with the author at Waterstones in Oxford.

With the previous owner's inscription to the front endpaper, Neil Wood.

Presented in an excellent unclipped dust wrapper.

Condition

In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of bumping to the tail of the spine. Dust wrapper, which is protected in mylar, is in excellent condition. Prior owner's inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

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