The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - 1979: A Novel

FREE SHIPPING IN THE US. New York: Harmony Books, 1979. First American Edition of this modern novel. Dust jacket in good condition, book in fine condition. Jacket painting by Peter Cross. Originally a radio series, broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4, Adams developed the Hitchhiker's Guide into a "trilogy" of five books which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime. A television series, comic books, computer games, film, and live theatre followed. The story of hyper-intelligent beings who build a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything." It is the basis for the 2005 film directed by Garth Jennings, starring Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman. THANK YOU.