THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

First hardcover edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the correct first printing dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the head of the spine, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good, lightly rubbed an nicked dustwrapper that has a tiny chip at the upper left corner of the partially faded spine. The dustwrapper is the first printing, with an advert for 'Capricorn One' printed in blue and black on the white rear panel, and the publisher's price of £4.95 net to the lower front flap. Uncommon in the correct 'state'.

The first novel in the comedy science fiction franchise that spawned an international multimedia phenomenon. First published as a paperback original earlier the same year by Pan Books, this is the first hardcover edition.