Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second novel in 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' sequence. Book club edition of the first hard cover version of this novel. Slight wear/creasing on dust jacket edges. Slight marking on the back of DJ. No printed price on DJ, which has not been price clipped. Front free endpaper(a blank page) has been removed. Otherwise clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Small folds on the tips of a few pages.
Seller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS, THETFORD, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second novel in 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' sequence. Book club edition of the first hard cover version of this novel. Probably ex-library. Withdrawn stamp on front free endpaper, which also has a blacked out price and a long previous owner gift inscription. No other library markings. Smalled tear on top edge of DJ, near DJ spine. Green boards with gilt titles on board spine. Board spine is slightly slanted. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Slight wear/creasing on dust jacket edges. Location: MG1
Seller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS, THETFORD, United Kingdom
Douglas Adams. The Restaurant At the End of the Universe. Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1980.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The uncommon first UK hardcover. Book is VG-, predominently due to stains on several pages inluding pages 30-31, 130 possibly from food. VG+ or better export jacket now with brodart cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
Price: US$92.75 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First hardback edition. Illustrated dust-jacket designed by Andrew Kay and illustrated by Mike Litherland, clean and bright, one or two light marks to the cream back. Book bound in green cloth with gilt title, clean bright and square. Contents unmarked, appearing as new, no marks to closed page edges.
Seller: David's Bookshop, Letchworth BA, Letchworth Garden City, HERTS, United Kingdom
Adams, douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Arthur barker, 1980.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 'First published in 1980 by pan Books limited'. c. Douglas Adams 1980. Published by Arthur Barker' . No other dates or printing info. so assumed first hardback edition. reen boards, colour bright, only occasional minute blemishes. Edges of the page block a little age-yellowed but probably due to storage as no smole smell. two inch area of loss to back blank end-paper. Not inscribed, not ex-library. jacket clean on the front, general edge-wear and browning to extremities, faint pen inscription on the back
Seller: old aberdeen bookshop, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first hardcover edition. The book was originally published in the same year as a Pan Original paperback. The hardcover editions were aimed mainly at public libraries and are quite scarce. With the striking dustwrapper design by Andrew Kay, using an illustration by Mike Litherland. ***Very good in dark-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine very slightly creased. Corners sharp. The boards are clean, with just some small marks to the back board. The edges of the page block are very slightly foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a small stain at the top edge of the front free endpaper. Pages clean with no creases or tears. There is a very slight reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. ***In a very good dustwrapper, which is unpriced by the publisher (the export issue variant). The dustwrapper is complete, with no chips or tears, and very little creasing. The spine of the dustwrapper is quite clean, with just a small stain. The front panel of the dustwrapper is bright, but there is some light staining at the bottom edge of the back panel. ***187 pages. 224mm x 148mm. ***'Milliways, the restaurant of the title, has been projected forward in time to the exact moment of the end of the universe. While galactic gourmets sample delectable dishes they watch in total comfort as constellations collide and asteroids explode in what can only be described as the ultimate cabaret. For followers of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on radio and television, Douglas Adam's second book will provide a lasting contribution to a superlative flight of fancy.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A very good copy of the first hardcover edition of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", hard to find now in the true Arthur Barker first printing. A Book Club Associates edition was also produced in the following year, with a much higher print-run than this original edition. Of interest to collectors of the work of Douglas Adams, and Science Fiction first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
ADAMS, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. London: Arthur Barker, 1980.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 187. Green cloth covered hard boards with original dust jacket. The jacket is unclipped and un-priced as often found. Second volume in the Hitch Hiker s Guide to the Galaxy series. Book is in Fine condition, jacket is Near Fine with a 2cm closed tear at top of rear turn-in. A very pretty bright copy.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Douglas Adams. The Restaurant At the End of the Universe. Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1980.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The uncommon first UK hardcover. Book is fine, square, clean boards and internally clean. A fine unclipped dust jacket, with no price (export jacket, identical but without price). Jacket now with a clear removable cover. Collectible copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
Adams, Douglas. THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. London Arthur Barker, [1980], 1980.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First hardcover edition. Near very fine being bumped at the two upper board corners in export dust jacket lacking publisher's price that has very light wear at the top of the spine and upper rear flap fold that is reinforced with nearly invisible tape on the back, otherwise but for that, the jacket would be an extremely clean and bright near very fine.
Seller: Tall Tales, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Douglas Adams. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Arthur Barker, London, 1980.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: near fine in near fine jacket. this copy would be fine save just a touch of toning to the jacket flaps. laid in is a magazine with an excerpt and illustration for the book
Seller: Coast to Coast Books, ANACORTES, WA, U.S.A.
Adams, Douglas. Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Arthur Barker Edition). Arthur Barker, 1980.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in like wrapper. First printing.
Seller: first state books, Corsham, WILTS, United Kingdom
DOUGLAS ADAMS. THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. ARTHUR BARKER LTD, LONDON, 1980.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The second novel in 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' sequence. First hard cover edition. First printing. Ex-library copy. Dust jacket is protected with a clear plastic cover. Slight wear on dust jacket edges. Original price on DJ has not been price clipped. Front and back flaps have been taped to their respective pastedowns. Residue of issuing form(and withdrawn for sale stamp) on the front endpaper. There is also a green pen mark and slight soiling on this page. Residue of a sticker/slight surface damage on the front pastedown(on the reverse of the front board). Slight foxing/age staining and soiling on page edges. Otherwise clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: P4/T
Seller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS, THETFORD, United Kingdom
Adams, Douglas. Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Arthur Barker, 1980.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG First Edition, first impression in a VG, unclipped DJ.slightly dust stained & spotted edges, spine ends pushed and slight lean to spine but otherwise a clean & tight copy.base of spine of DJ a little chipped
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Douglas Adams. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Arthur Barker, London, 1980.
Price: US$2415.49 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, Arthur Barker, 1980. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A fine copy. First hardback issue. Inscribed by the author to the half title. A nice copy with some ink transfer from the signature and a little trivial pushing to the spine tips. [10714, Hyraxia Books].
Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
Price: US$4186.85 + shipping
Description: First hardback editions, first impressions, of the first two instalments of the 20th century's most popular science fiction comedy series. Both were first published as paperbacks by Pan Books several months prior to their hardback appearance. Adams adapted The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy into a series of best-selling novels after the story's initial success as a radio show. The purposefully misnamed "trilogy in five books", published between 1979 and 1992, follows the adventures of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect; a posthumous sixth book was written by Eoin Colfer in 2009. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been translated into more than 30 languages. 2 works, octavo. Original blue and green boards, spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets. Hitch Hiker's Guide: Spine ends slightly bumped; spine panel of unclipped jacket sunned at head, small stain at foot of rear and spine panels, a few nicks. Restaurant: Scotton House ex-libris on front free endpaper. Corners slightly bumped, top edge foxed; edges of unclipped jacket nicked, short closed tear to head of rear panel, upper corner of rear flap chipped: near-fine copies in like jackets.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom