Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998, reprint.  ISBN 0-19-283327-8.  Trade soft cover, 143 pages including Notes.  Unread copy; pages lightly tanned; features Weedon Grossmith’s original illustrations.  ‘Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to epitomize English suburban life.  His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son.  The suburban world he inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency.’ (from rear wrap)