Billy Liar
by Waterhouse, Keith
Billy Liar (1959) is a novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, film, musical and TV series. The semi-comical story is about Billy Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire. Bored by his job as a lowly clerk for an undertaker, Billy spends his time indulging in Walter Mitty-like fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a comedy writer.
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Billy Liar
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1959
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- Hardcover
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Canterbury, Kent, GBR
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A$865.35
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Michael Joseph. First edition published by Michael Joseph in 1959. It is in very good or better condition. There are light signs of wear to the spine ends and corners. There are tape marks to the reverse of the jacket at the spine ends. The William Belcher jacket hasn't been price clipped with the spine faded. The boards are in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Billy Liar (Penguin Books. no. 1783.)
by Keith Waterhouse
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- 1962
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Penguin Books Ltd., 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. 186 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Billy Liar
by WATERHOUSE, Keith
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- 1959
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Sleaford, Lincolnshire, GBR
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A$548.06
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Michael Joseph, 1959. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Dark red boards with gilt titles. Geometric patterned dustwrapper by William Belper. A near fine copy with clean boards. No marks to textblock edges. Usual toning to leaves & dustwrapper offsetting to endpaper o/w fine. No inscriptions. The very good+/near fine dustwrapper is complete with some light edgewear to extremities &… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blooding of the Guns
by Fullerton, Alexander
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Morrinsville, NZL
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Michael Joseph, London, 1976. Hard Cover, 8vo, First Edition. . Book Condition: Very Good. Boards and interior very clean. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NotClipped.. Item Price
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Billy Liar
by WATERHOUSE, Keith
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Quinton, Northamptonshire, GBR
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A$673.05
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Michael Josph, 1959. 1st edition. Hardcover. Nice brown boards with gilt spine lettering, slight bumping at spine head, clean endpapers with minuscule offsetting, very clean pages with no sign of any foxing. In a fine dustjacket, not price-clipped, small repair at spine head, nice clean rear panel. Overall an unusually excellent example of the author's classic novel, by… Read more about this item Item Price
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BILLY LIAR
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- First American Edition; First Printing
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- 1960
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Pomona, New York, USA
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A$62.64
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New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1960. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- in boards. Discoloration at spine. Boards slightly bowed. Stated First American Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Item Price
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BILLY LIAR
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- First American Edition; First Printing
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- 1960
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Pomona, New York, USA
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New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1960. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good price clipped dust jacket. Jacket in old mylar and flaps pasted down.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Item Price
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Billy Liar
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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A$109.20
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Michael Joseph, London, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. 192 pages, last page blank, ex Libris stamp of previous owner on front paste down, darkening of all edges of the text block, slight bumping of the base edge of the backstrip. a very clean copy.. PLEASE NOTE… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Waterhouse, Keith
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- 1959
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Johannesburg, ZAF
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A$45.94
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Michael Joseph, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. An ex-library copy with the normal library markings. In original boards which are marked and worn. Some foxing and age-related marks. The binding is strong.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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Billy Liar
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- Second Impression
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- 1959
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- Hardback
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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A$144.22
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London: Michael Joseph. Bound in clean red cloth with gilt titles to spine, this 1959 Second Impresssion is VG. Signed on free fornt endpaper by members of London cast of the Play. Signatures as follows: Albert Finney: Ann Beach, Jennifer Jayne, Mona Washbourne, G.A. Cooper, Juliet Cooke, Trevor Barrington, and Ethel Griffiths.( Late owner's signature appears on front fixed endpaper:… Read more about this item Item Price
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Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
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- New
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- Paperback / softback
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- 9780573111426
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Uxbridge, Greater London, GBR
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A$30.13
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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker's clerk and his dreary domestic… Read more about this item Item Price
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Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
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- Used - Acceptable
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- 1963
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- Paperback
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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A$5.50
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Penguin Books In Association With Michael Joseph, 1963. Paperback. Acceptable. 1963. Reprint. 186 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Stamp to first page. Minor dog-eared corners. Pulling to covers. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with curling to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Tearing to spine ends. Scuffing to edges and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
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- Used - Acceptable
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- 1968
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- Paperback
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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A$4.85
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Penguin, 1968. Paperback. Acceptable. 1968. Reprint. 186 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and mild cracking to hinges. Previous owner's inscriptions to reverse side of front cover. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Book… Read more about this item Item Price
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Billy Liar
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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- Hard Cover
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Leicester, GBR
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A$1,009.58
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London: Michael Joseph, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's maroon boards with gilt lettering to the spine. The usual offsetting to both sets of end-papers otherwise a near fine copy in like D/W with none of the usual fading to the red, yellow and black portions of the spine and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
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- Used - Good
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- 1963
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- Paperback
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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A$4.79
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Penguin Books, 1963. Paperback. Good. 1963. Reprinted. 187 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Item Price
A$4.79
Billy Liar (Penguin Books. no. 1783.)
by Keith Waterhouse
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- Used - Good
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- 1967
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- Paperback
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Penguin Books Ltd., 1967. Paperback. Good. 1967. Reprinted. 187 pages. Orange penguin paperback. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Item Price
A$6.88
Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
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- Used - Good
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- 1963
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- Paperback
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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A$7.31
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Penguin Books, 1963. Paperback. Good. 1963. Reprinted. 187 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Item Price
A$7.31
Billy Liar (Penguin Decades)
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Paperback
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- 9780141041735
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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A$4.08
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Paperback. Acceptable. Item Price
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Billy Liar.
by WATERHOUSE, Keith.:
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Sudbury, Suffolk, GBR
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A$7.69
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Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.. The dimmer his surroundings, the keener is the edge on Billy's sardonic wit and the more fantastic ar his compensatory daydreams. Not surprisingly he ends up in trouble...." Pp.187, slight toning to pages. Paperback, cover incorporates stills of Tom Courtney in the film of the book. VG. Item Price
A$7.69
Billy Liar
by Waterhouse, Keith
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- Used - Good Condition
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1977
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780140017830
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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A$9.10
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Penguin Books In Association with Michael Joseph, London, 1977. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrated card cover with blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Billy Liar lives in Yorkshire – much to his chagrin. To compensate he fantasises, which neither his employer or… Read more about this item Item Price
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