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Douglas Adams – The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – First UK Edition 1979 – SIGNED and DATED
£3,500.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams, published by Arthur Barker, London in 1979 – scarce Arthur Barker Edition ordered by Adams. A fine book signed and dated (26.xi.84) in blue ink by the author to a tipped in front free end paper stamped 1918 to lower corner, boards bound in publisher’s original dark blue cloth, with gilt titling to the spine, the text block bright and crisp. In a near fine wrapper with a little fading to the spine, light bumping to head of the spine and chipping to upper knuckle of front flap fold.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a comic science fiction novel that begins with Arthur Dent escaping Earth’s destruction thanks to his alien friend Ford Prefect. They journey through space, encountering eccentric beings like Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the paranoid android, and Trillian. Guided by the titular electronic book, the story satirises bureaucracy, technology and existence itself. Absurd, witty and philosophical, it turns cosmic chaos into hilarious reflections on life, the universe and everything.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams, published by Arthur Barker, London in 1979 – scarce Arthur Barker Edition ordered by Adams. A fine book signed and dated (26.xi.84) in blue ink by the author to a tipped in front free end paper stamped 1918 to lower corner, boards bound in publisher’s original dark blue cloth, with gilt titling to the spine, the text block bright and crisp. In a near fine wrapper with a little fading to the spine, light bumping to head of the spine and chipping to upper knuckle of front flap fold.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a comic science fiction novel that begins with Arthur Dent escaping Earth’s destruction thanks to his alien friend Ford Prefect. They journey through space, encountering eccentric beings like Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the paranoid android, and Trillian. Guided by the titular electronic book, the story satirises bureaucracy, technology and existence itself. Absurd, witty and philosophical, it turns cosmic chaos into hilarious reflections on life, the universe and everything.
