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2022 First Thus. 5 Fine Hardbacks. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine box. Illustrated by Jonathan Burton. Introduced by Jonathan Burton. Preface by Carlo Rovelli. Limited to 750 hand-numbered sets of which this is number 133. Including introductions by Terry Jones, Adam Roberts and Jon Canter. The Folio Society limited edition of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy arrives in a spectacular presentation box with DON'T PANIC written in large, friendly letters on the front. All five volumes feature new illustrations by artist Jonathan Burton. Submission for Kingsbury Press's Canon Book Printer of the Year Award. Five volumes bound in cloth blocked in holographic silver, turquoise, pink, blue, green, red and orange foils. Set in Freight Text with Kavo as display. Printed on Munken Lynx Rough paper. 1,240 pages in total. 44 colour and 30 black & white illustrations in total. Limitation label signed by Jonathan Burton. Metallic foil page-tops. Endpapers printed with a design by the artist. 9.5" x 6.25". Presented in a two-part box covered in cloth and paper blocked with metallic foils and lined with paper printed with silver stars. Print for framing presented in a folder printed with a design by the artist . UK Postage �3.40; Airmail to USA and Canada �74.40; Airmail to most of the Rest of the World (including the EU), �74.40.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction novel by English author Douglas Adams. It was originally a radio comedy broadcast on the BBC in 1978 before it was developed into a series of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. The story follows the galactic adventures of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman, following the demolition of the Earth by aliens called Vogons, who is whisked into space by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the eponymous guidebook.