So long, and thanks for all the fish
ADAMS, Douglas. So long, and thanks for all the fish
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984
8vo., black publisher’s boards, lettered in silver along backstrip; in the original unclipped dustwrapper (£6.95 net) designed by Gary Day-Ellison including a holographic panel showing a walrus and a plesiosaur; pp. [vi], 7-191, [i]; a near-fine copy, very mild compression to spine ends and a couple of pale spots to the outer edge of the text block; in the near-fine, unfaded dust jacket which has a couple of small marks and marginally toned along the flaps. A lovely copy.
First edition, inscribed by the author on the ffep ‘To Mike/ Best wishes/ Douglas Adams’, and dated the 24th November 1984, with queue number 551 from the signing stamped beneath.
The fourth book in the so-called Hitch-Hiker’s ‘trilogy’, the title being the phrase used by the dolphins when they departed earth just before it was demolished to make way for an intergalactic highway. After several years travelling the galaxy, Arthur Dent is returned to a planet which he later discovers appears exactly to resemble his demolished home. Although featuring Adams’ classic blend of space travel, global hallucinations and alternate dimensions, the tone is somewhat different to his other novels. The book is essentially a romance, in which Dent and a woman named Fenchurch travel through space together in order to discover where God’s final message to Creation is written.
ADAMS, Douglas. So long, and thanks for all the fish
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984
8vo., black publisher’s boards, lettered in silver along backstrip; in the original unclipped dustwrapper (£6.95 net) designed by Gary Day-Ellison including a holographic panel showing a walrus and a plesiosaur; pp. [vi], 7-191, [i]; a near-fine copy, very mild compression to spine ends and a couple of pale spots to the outer edge of the text block; in the near-fine, unfaded dust jacket which has a couple of small marks and marginally toned along the flaps. A lovely copy.
First edition, inscribed by the author on the ffep ‘To Mike/ Best wishes/ Douglas Adams’, and dated the 24th November 1984, with queue number 551 from the signing stamped beneath.
The fourth book in the so-called Hitch-Hiker’s ‘trilogy’, the title being the phrase used by the dolphins when they departed earth just before it was demolished to make way for an intergalactic highway. After several years travelling the galaxy, Arthur Dent is returned to a planet which he later discovers appears exactly to resemble his demolished home. Although featuring Adams’ classic blend of space travel, global hallucinations and alternate dimensions, the tone is somewhat different to his other novels. The book is essentially a romance, in which Dent and a woman named Fenchurch travel through space together in order to discover where God’s final message to Creation is written.
ADAMS, Douglas. So long, and thanks for all the fish
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984
8vo., black publisher’s boards, lettered in silver along backstrip; in the original unclipped dustwrapper (£6.95 net) designed by Gary Day-Ellison including a holographic panel showing a walrus and a plesiosaur; pp. [vi], 7-191, [i]; a near-fine copy, very mild compression to spine ends and a couple of pale spots to the outer edge of the text block; in the near-fine, unfaded dust jacket which has a couple of small marks and marginally toned along the flaps. A lovely copy.
First edition, inscribed by the author on the ffep ‘To Mike/ Best wishes/ Douglas Adams’, and dated the 24th November 1984, with queue number 551 from the signing stamped beneath.
The fourth book in the so-called Hitch-Hiker’s ‘trilogy’, the title being the phrase used by the dolphins when they departed earth just before it was demolished to make way for an intergalactic highway. After several years travelling the galaxy, Arthur Dent is returned to a planet which he later discovers appears exactly to resemble his demolished home. Although featuring Adams’ classic blend of space travel, global hallucinations and alternate dimensions, the tone is somewhat different to his other novels. The book is essentially a romance, in which Dent and a woman named Fenchurch travel through space together in order to discover where God’s final message to Creation is written.