Complete Douglas Adams including the Hitchhiker's Trilogy (in Five Volumes): The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless + Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul

Adams, Douglas

Published by Harmony Books + Simon and Schuster, New York, 1992

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complete Douglas Adams including the Hitchhiker's Trilogy (in Five Volumes): The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless + Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
• Publisher: Harmony Books + Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First US edition.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy
  • MYSTERY
  • Humor