The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams, First Edition, Signed (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed. First Edition. Flat signed by Douglas Adams on the title page. A nice copy. Clean text, solid binding. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. First printing, with full number line. Jacket is not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, Signed, First Edition First Print , no flaws, in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. SIGNED by Adams to title page with name only. VG+ with some toning to page block and a fractional spine lean, in VG+ unclipped jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine first edition inscribed by Douglas Addams on title page. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Near fine dust jacket. Slight rubbing to folds. Else fine. A nice first edition inscribed by Addams, author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. First edition first printing hardcover Fine in fine dust jacket SIGNED BY ADAMS ON THE TITLE PAGE.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. first. INSCRIBED first edition, with number line from 1-10 on copyright page. Book and dust jacket fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Michael / Douglas Adams." A fine copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First US edition. 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.

First editions. 247 & 246 pages respectively. The first book is inscribed by Adams to the title page: "To Sue without whom! With lots of love Douglas". The recipient was Sue Freestone, Publishing Director at Heinemann, who receives special mention in his Author's Note: "for all her help nursing this book into existence". The second book is similarly inscribed: "For Sophie with thanks for the loan of your mum! Love Douglas". The recipient on this occasion was Sue's daughter, Sophie Meyer, who also received an official printed thanks and apology in the author's note opposite page 1. Both books are firmly bound, the extremities of the boards are slightly bumped and rubbed. Both text blocks are slightly foxed, a small portion of the inscription has offset to the opposite page of the first book, which was evidently closed before the ink was fully dry. The dust jackets, both designed by Claudia Zeff, with illustrations by Lionel Jeans and Chris Moore, are the originals and not price clipped, they are slightly rubbed and foxed, with some minor nicks, and creases to the edges. Adams's contribution to occult detective fiction, following in the illustrious footsteps of Algernon Blackwood's John Silence, Margery Lawrence's Dr Miles Pennoyer, and Dion Fortune's Dr Taverner, with added surreal humour, the first novel inspired by two Doctor Who serials he had written previously. This is a superb pair of association copies, marking arguably Adams' most important professional and creative relationship with his long-time publishing editor, who, being painfully aware of his susceptibility to writer's block and consequent tendency to procrastinate, would move into his home when deadlines were approaching, noting in one interview that Adams: "needs an instant audience to bounce things off".