The Hamster that Loved Puccini

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Atlantic Books.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a picture of a hamster wearing a dinner jacket and holding opera glasses. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £9.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. Seems lightly used if at all. Now in a clear protective jacket. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end-papers (black). Bo annotations or inscriptions. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 167 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: This is the wonderfully enjoyable sequel to the previous year?s surprise Christmas bestseller, The Cat That Could Open The Fridge. Simon is back with a new treasure-trove of Christmas round-robins. And this time the bête-noire of the Christmas post, illustrates the seven deadly sins of the middle classes, including boastfulness (dazzlingly clever children who play the saxophone and ski for Britain); smugness (their jobs, their houses, their holidays are all perfect); tiny-mindedness (do we really nee to be told how to start a jigsaw for looking for the straight bits?); whimsy (letters written by pets, even dead ones); and the dreaded over-sharing, in which every illness and operation is described in minute detail.* A FINE, AS NEW, copy with NO VISIBLE FAULTS in a fine dust jacket now in a clear un-attached protective wrapper.*