The Ice Age, Margaret Drabble. Signed by the author. Stated first American edition.
Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price ($8.95) still intact. Jacket designed by Muriel Nassar. Some light chipping on top of jacket. Hardcover: Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Light blue cloth with brown spine and silver lettering on spine. No writing or markings in the book, 295 pp. Now protected by archival brodart cover. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy.
Included in the 1999 Callil/Toibin publication The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950.
A great novel from the acclaimed British author set in England's collapsing economy. With stately homes, a BBC editor, a real-estate shark, a roguish young woman, and a middle-aged ex-actress all prepare for crucial changes in their lives and reflect one another's transformations. Drabble examines, in her eighth novel, the complex spectacle of Britain struggling through the early 1970's
