ADAMS, Douglas.

£2,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. First hardback edition, with the first issue jacket advertising "Capricorn One" on the rear panel.Following the striking success of the two 1978 BBC radio programs, Adams adapted the adventures of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect into a series of best-selling novels, famously described by the author as "a trilogy in five books", published between 1979 and 1992. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been translated into more than 30 languages. It was first published as a paperback earlier in the same year by Pan.

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