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Harmony Books, New York. 1980. 215 pages. First American Edition stated, first printing with full numberline, including one. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Variant binding with navy paper-covered boards with decorative blindstamp on front panel. Bright lavender titles on spine and isbn number on rear panel (matching isbn number on rear of DJ.) Book shows slightest minor sunning along edges, barely. Small speck stain on rear panel, small faint spot on rear endpaper. Original DJ with $6.95 price intact on flap. DJ shows a small rub at upper right corner, and minor shallow rubbing at crown. This copy measures 7 3/4 inches tall by 5 1/4 inches wide whereas the bookclub editions measure taller and wider. A tight, attractive copy of the first edition, first printing, in original DJ. VG+/VG+

Brand new box set. Five volumes bound in cloth blocked in holographic silver, turquoise, pink, blue, green, red and orange foils. Presented in a two-part box covered in cloth and paper blocked with metallic foils. 44 colour and 30 black & white illustrations in total. Limitation label signed by the Illustrator Jonathan Burton.

Signed by author on Half title page in blue pen, signature only. First American edition published 1980 stated with 10 9 8 7 to number line. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 Book; binding tight, minor bump to bottom rear corner else boards straight and clean, text free of marks, appears unread. Dust jacket ($12.95 ) has, to spine, mild fading and mild chipping to ends. Color sharp to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series] by Douglas Adams, 5 vol., comprising The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, jacket second state without advertisement, 1979; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, faints spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, jacket with slight creasing to spine tips and light spotting to flaps, 1980; Life the Universe and Everything, ownership blind-stamp of Michael George Feehily, jacket price-clipped, slight toning to spine, slight creasing to head of spine, 1982; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, signed by the author and dated in year of publication on endpaper, ink stamp "1861" to endpaper, 1984; Mostly Harmless, light toning to margins, jacket with minor chipping to spine tips and corners, 1992, first or first hardback editions, original boards, dust-jackets, a near-fine set.

Fine Book & Jacket, Signed to title page , First Edition First Print, no chips, clips, tears, or owner marks, in protective cover

First American edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas Adams and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original dark blue paper-covered boards over magenta spine cloth lettered in metallic blue. Near Fine with light wear and toning to pages, former owner name and inkless emboss to half-title page. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light chipping to edges, creases to flap, light toning and bleeding to blindside. A nice copy.

First American edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas Adams on the title page. Bound in publisher's dark blue paper covered boards over magenta spine cloth lettered in metallic blue. Near Fine with slight lean to binding and light rubbing to gilt lettering, gift inscription dated 1980 to front free endpaper verso and contents toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and toning. A nice copy of this sci-fi classic.

Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page: 'To...Best wishes Douglas Adams'. A very near-to-fine copy of the first American edition, 1st printing (with complete numberline) in a fine first printing jacket, complete with $6.95 price. Binding is tight, binding has very slight hints of edge and suface wear. Basis of the wonderfully odd film of the same name.

First American edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas Adams on the title page. Bound in publisher's dark blue paper covered boards over magenta spine cloth lettered in metallic blue. Near Fine with slight lean to binding and light rubbing to gilt lettering, gift inscription dated 1980 to front free endpaper verso and contents toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and toning. A nice copy of this sci-fi classic.

A complete signed set of the American editions of the "increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy," one of the bestselling science fiction series of all time, and the two science fiction / fantasy comic detective novels featuring Dirk Gently. The five-volume Hitchhiker trilogy charts the improbable journeys of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Marvin the Paranoid Android through space, time, bureaucracy, and the end(s) of the universe. What began as a 1978 BBC radio comedy quickly evolved into one of the beloved works of 20th-century speculative fiction. Adams redefined science fiction by making absurdity and existential dread not just tolerable, but wildly entertaining. If you recognize his catchphrases ?Don?t Panic? and ?42? (the answer to life, the universe, and everything), you belong to a large club of slightly nerdy readers, but in a good way. The two Dirk Gently novels explore similar themes about the meanness or meaninglessness of the universe, but with a more earth-bound setting. These seven books are Adams's entire fictional output. When he died from a heart attack in 2001, aged 49 years, he had struggled with writer's block for a full decade since his last novel, Mostly Harmless, was published. His only other book was a co-authored non-fiction work based on a BBC radio documentary that Adams presented. All five volumes are first American editions with numberlines each ending in 1. The books are all signed by the author. Adams, despite his popularity, wrote relatively few books and thus did not participate in as many signing events as he might have. His signed books are much less common than those of his contemporaries like Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The seven books are all in nice condition. Life has a previous owners' name on the endpaper, a bit of spotting to the page edges, and light shelfwear at the extremities. It is inscribed on the fly-title, "To Mel, Best wishes, Douglas Adams." Tea-Time has minor spotting to the page edges. The other volumes are very nearly fine, with minor bumping to a few of the spine ends. They are all signed by Adams on the title pages.