The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

ADAMS, Douglas.

The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1994.

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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is at last published in panoramic, earth-shattering, hyper-hysterical format": First edition of The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Signed by Douglas Adams in the year of publication

First illustrated edition of Adams' modern classic. Folio, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "Douglas Adams 22-9-94." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

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.