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Billy Liar by WATERHOUSE, Keith - 1959

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Billy Liar by WATERHOUSE, Keith - 1959

Billy Liar

by WATERHOUSE, Keith

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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 & a couple of short closed tears. Original price of 13s6dnet on front flap. An attractive copy importantly without the heavy toning to spine. The novel which was the basis for the 1963 classic film with Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie. Yorkshire teenager, Billy Fisher is unable to stop lying especially to this three girlfriends; he is trapped in his boring job and living with his working class parents - he dreams of Ambrosia, the name he has given for his fictional idyllic country where he will release the shackles of his everyday.
  • Bookseller Julian Roberts Fine Books GB (GB)
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  • Publisher Michael Joseph
  • Date Published 1959

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Billy Liar

Billy Liar

by Waterhouse, Keith

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Penguin UK, 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Billy Liar

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Penguin UK, 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Great Britain: Penguin & Vintage, 1959. A very good paperback 1967 reprint. Orange spine. Penguin 1783. Paperback. Very Good.
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Billy Liar

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Penguin, 1976. 14th printing. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. pgs.187 tight copy pgs. pgs. 92-186 some sporadic pages with some lines underlined in blue with a few notes in margins tanning to text pages black line lower edge
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UK: Penguin, 1967. Book. Good. Mass Market Paperback. Some edgewear and creasing of covers and spine, light age toning of pages otherwise a good clean reading copy.
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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 is slightly curled.
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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.
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Billy Liar

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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 spine. Some tanning to spine and edges. Book has a rolled spine.
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Billy Liar

by Keith Waterhouse

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Penguin, 1963. Paperback. Good. 1963. Reprint. 186 pages. Photographic 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.
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Billy Liar

by Keith Waterhouse

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Penguin, 1973. Paperback. Good. 1973. 1869 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 is lightly rub worn and thumbed with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Light creases to corners and spine.
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