London.Lambourn Publications Limited. 1990. ISBN 1872708021. Hardback with pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like, unprice-clipped wrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: 'To Julian & Kathleen with love from John Welcome. You were in at the depth of the first all those years ago now see the 2nd - after all its second editions that are the rarity! J.' Loosely laid in is a one-page signed typed letter from the writer to Julian Symons.The recipients were the crime writer Julian Symons and his wife Kathleen.