Talk:An Ice-Cream War

Characters
In the article the Cobb family are referred to as “aristocratic” but in the first UK paperback edition (Penguin, 1983) their social standing derives solely from an electroplating plant in Wolverhampton. Is there another edition linking them to the peerage?

Hors-la-loi 18:47, 26 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hors-la-loi (talk • contribs)

7 May 2007
I have written a plot summary for this novel with source and external link Ivankinsman 20:03, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

title
Why is the book title hyphenated in the article title whereas it is clearly not hyphenated in the book cover shown at right? Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 16:26, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Here is an edition where the title and author are all in lower case and there is a hyphen: https://img1.gettextbooks.com/pi/0375705023/500/500. Here is another image of the same edition: https://www.worldcat.org/title/ice-cream-war/oclc/40744463. And here is a hard back edition with a different cover, this time all upper case, with it hyphented: https://archive.org/details/icecreamwar00boyd/mode/2up. Oh, and another one again, this time with a 1920s style typeface and a hyphen: https://archive.org/details/icecreamwar00will. So it looks like an error in that edition's cover. SandJ-on-WP (talk) 14:18, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Walter Smith or Temple Smith
My edition (Penguin) calls this character Temple Smith, is there a divergence between British and US editions? Should this not be mentioned in the article? Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 16:36, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Someone has updated it to confirm your suspicion. From the book's synopsis on project Gutenberg (which i cannot reference because wikipedia blocks self.gutenberg.org) "The first character introduced is Temple Smith (Walter Smith in the US edition), an American expatriate farm-owner/mechanic/engineer who runs…" SandJ-on-WP (talk) 14:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The "self" domain there is a Wikipedia mirror - as clearly indicated on that page. Kuru   (talk)  14:25, 10 August 2020 (UTC)