An Ice-Cream War

London: Hamish Hamilton. 1982. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Paul Webb illustrated dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a slight hint of bumping at the corners, the contents clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the… Read more 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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this early novel by the author of "A Good Man in Africa". This copy is in near fine condition with mild rubbing and sunning to the board edges, else fine. Housed in a very good price clipped dust… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Small, faint dampstain on topedge near the spine and onto the endpapers, else very good in a very good dust jacket with corresponding light dampstain. Author's excellent second novel about the inept, but bloody fighting in the East African colonies during the First World… Read more about this item

First Edition. Green cloth hardcover. William Morrow & Co, 1983. Good + condition. Some general wear and fading otherwise very good.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 15-408, [2] pp. Quarter grey cloth over light grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A sharp copy of Boyd's novel, set in… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression, signed by Boyd on the title page. 8vo: [12],363,[1]pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine stamped gilt, illustrated dust jacket priced 7.95. About Fine (minor speckling on top edge) and probably unread, in About Fine jacket very mildly (almost imperceptibly) faded to spine panel. Boyd's second novel, An Ice-Cream… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 370 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Webb. Extensive black ink gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise a crisp, clean copy with some spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket shows light handling only, with bright orange lettering to… Read more about this item

William Morrow & Co, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition, first printing, of the author's second novel. Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. His uncommon third book which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A fine copy in a very near fine jacket.

Penguin Books, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very Good condition. General shelf and handling wear. Light tanning to cover and pages. Interior is clean with a tight spine. 383 pp.

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;… Read more about this item

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],370,[2]pp. Upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with publisher's new price sticker immediately to the left of the clip; trivial wear to extremities and a hint of sunning to spine… Read more about this item

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.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. The first edition copy of Boyd's 'darkly comic' wartime novel, which takes place during the East African Campaign of WWI, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First Edition. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with one full-page illustration, showing 'German East Africa, showing… Read more about this item

LONDON: HAMISH HAMILTON, 1982. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0241108683 . INSCRIBED by William Boyd on title page. Fine in a priceclipped, otherwise fine dj. Author's THIRD book. (S) .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good-. 1983. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading and cover creases, some staining to top of spine, paper starting to tone with some foxing to front endpapers. ; First UK paperback edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo… Read more about this item