London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000

8vo, pp. 384. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine, unread copy in a near fine dustwrapper with a single tiny nick to foot of spine..

First edition, INSCRIBED BY FRANK McGUINNESS TO ALAN RICKMAN AND HIS PARTNER RIMA HORTON: '23.6.2000 Dublin. Dear Alan & Rima, love Frank.'

A gift to Rickman from his friend the playwright Frank McGuinness. (Rickman appeared with Fiona Shaw in McGuinness's version of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2010.)