0434003484 - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts Liftarens Guide Till Galaxen by Adams, Douglas, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Very Good Used Condition For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - * The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy * The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe * Life, The Universe And Everything * So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish * Mostly Harmless Suppose A Good Friend Calmly Told You Over A Round Of Drinks That The World Was About To End? And Suppose Your Friend Went On To Confess That He Wasn't From Around Here At All, But Rather From A Small Planet Near Betelgeuse? And What If The World Really Did Come To An End, But Instead Of Being Blown Away, You Found Yourself Hitching A Ride On A Spaceship With Your Buddy As A Travelling Companion? It Happens To Arthur Dent. An Ordinary Guy From A Small Town In England, Arthur Is One Lucky Sonofagun: His Alien Friend, Ford Prefect, Is In Fact A Roving Researcher For The Universally Bestselling Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy . And Expert At Seeing The Cosmos On 30 Altairian Dollars A Day. Ford Lives By The Guide's Seminal Bit Of Advice: Don't Panic. Which Comes In Handy When Their First Ride--On The Very Same Vessel That Demolished Earth To Make Way For A Hyperspacial Freeway--Ends Disastrously (They Are Booted Out Of An Airlock). With 30 Seconds Of Air In Their Lungs And The Odd Of Being Picked Up By Another Ship 2^276,709 To 1 Against, The Pair Are Scooped Up By The Only Ship In The Universe Powered By The Infinite Improbability Drive. But This (And The Idea That Bogart Movies And Mcdonald's Hamburgers Now Exist Only In His Mind) Is Just The Beginning Of The Weird Things Arthur Will Have To Get Used To. For, On His Travels, He'll Encounter Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Two-Headed, Three-Armed Ex-President Of The Galaxy; Trillian, A Sexy Spacecadet He Once Tried To Pick Up At A Cocktail Party, Now Zaphod's Girlfriend; Marvin, A Chronically Depressed Robot; And Slartibartfast, The Award-Winning Engineer Who Built The Earth And Travels In A Spaceship Disguised As A Bistro. Arthur's Crazed Wanderings Will Take Him From The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe (Where The Main Dish Of The Day Introduces Itself And The Floor Show Is Doomsday), To The Planet Krikkit (Locked In Slo-Time To Punish Its Inhabitants For Trying To End The Universe), To Earth (Huh? Wait! Wasn't It Destroyed?!) To The Very Offices Of The Hitchhiker's Guide Itself As He And His Friends Quest For The Answer To The Question Of Life, The Universe And Everything . And Search For A Really Good Cup Of Tea. Ready Or Not, Arthur Dent Is In For One Hell Of A Ride!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket by Button Design Co. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First collected edition, subsequent impression with number line '15 17 19 20 18 16 14'. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and split, some damp and mould staining to front and back endpapers, not price clipped (£15.99), no inscriptions, internally tight and square, overall a good reading copy. 776pp. Includes 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy', 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long and Thanks for all the Fish', and 'Mostly Harmless'. Reissued to coincide with the film's release, this hardback omnibus edition include all five parts of the trilogy, along with a guide to the Guide and essential notes on how to leave the planet. This single hardback edition is indispensable for any would be galactic traveller, and for old and new fans of Douglas Adams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edcition.1st.printing thus-first printing in the first collected edition.vg hardback in vg dustwrapper.a nice looking coipy -no tears and not priceclipped but usual page edge tanning.due to weight extrea postage for non uk address.