Adams (Douglas) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, first hardback edition, 1979.

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Adams (Douglas) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first hardback edition, endpapers very lightly foxed, original cloth, first state dust-jacket with "Capricorn One" advertisement on rear panel, light chipping to spine ends, spine lightly toned, light denting to lower panel, 8vo, 1979.⁂ A superb copy of this keystone of 20th century sci-fi literature, very rare in commerce, especially with the first state jacket. The conceit was originally a radio series, broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4, with Adams later developing the Hitchhiker's Guide into a "trilogy" of five books which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime.