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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (First American Edition, inscribed by the author) Hardcover - 1980

by Douglas Adams

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New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American Edition, preceded by the First UK Edition published by Pan Books in 1979. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "To Michael / Best wishes / Douglas Adams." The author's beloved first novel, and first book in the Hitchhiker series. Basis for the 1981 television miniseries, and for the 2005 film starring Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, and Alan Rickman. Very Good plus in an about Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards slightly frayed on the top and bottom edges of the rear board, with faint foxing on the page edges. Jacket has several corresponding pinholes and points of fray on the edges of the rear flap, with flap edges and verso lightly foxed.
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Summary

"IRRESISTIBLE!"--The Boston GlobeSeconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy."--Publishers WeeklyFrom the Paperback edition.

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