Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1998 • Viking

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding U.S. FIRST EDITION [1998] VIKING 13th printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket shows some light shelf / edge wear; now housed in a new archival jacket protector.   Book itself is excellent; looks and reads like new! "129 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)?"Bridget Jone's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a