London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989

4to, pp. 320. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Boards a little spotted, but a near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dustwrapper, a little light edgewear, and with one small closed tear to top edge near spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED TO SPIKE MILLIGAN BY HIS WIFE: ' Spike Darling -- This is more a present for 'us' to enjoy. Love Shelagh xx P.S. See page 22. Xmas 1989.' (p. 22 carries a picture of Holly Lodge in Highgate, at which Shelagh has written 'Lynsey [de Paul]'s house x').

Spike Milligan was married to Shelagh, his third wife, for the last nineteen years of his life until his death in 2002. Shelagh died in 2011.