First edition, first impression. Signed by the author and his co-writer on the front free endpaper. The play was first performed at the Cambridge Theatre, London, in 1960 with Albert Finney in the title role. Billy Liar was Waterhouse's second novel, originally published in 1959. From the library of Dr Philip Murray, Irish bibliophile and author of Adventures of a Book Collector (2011); the sale of his library was Ireland's largest ever single sale of first edition books.
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