New York: Carrick & Evans Inc. 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-lib with usual library markings. A little shelf wear to blue decorative cloth library binding. Otherwise a tight unmarked book. 330 pp. Carrick & Evans, Inc. Hardcover
HarperCollins 06/11/1995 00:00:01. hardcover. Good. 3.0457 in x 23.6041 in x 15.4822 in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. HarperCollins hardcover
Bookseller reference : mon0000439099 ISBN : 0002556294 9780002556293
Hardback. New. <p>The Psychology of Running provides a unique insight into why running is such a popular form of exercise and competition. </p> hardcover
Bookseller reference : A9781032068626 ISBN : 1032068620 9781032068626
<p>The trilogy in five volumes. <em>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</em> 215 pages. Bound in quarter purple cloth with purple gilt lettering to spine over grey boars with blind-stamped pictorial to cover in original jacket. Signed on title; <em>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</em> 250 pages. Bound in original quarter aqua cloth with purple gilt lettering to spine over black boards with purple pictorial to cover in original jacket. Inscribed on the front end paper; <em>Life the Universe and Everything</em> 204 pages. Bound in black cloth with green gilt lettering to spine and green gilt pictorial to cover in original jacket. signed on title; <em>So Long and Thanks for All the Fish</em> 204 pages. Bound in black boards with green gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original jacket. Inscribed to Josh on title. Small octavos 7 ½" x 5" bound original quarter cloth with original pictorial jackets. <em>Mostly Harmless</em> 277 pages. Signed on title. Octavo 8 ½" x 5 ½" bound in original publisher s quarter purple cloth with light green gilt to spine over green boards in original jacket. First American editions. With the original movie poster.<br /><br />The novels are described as "a trilogy in five parts" having been described as a trilogy on the release of the third book and then a "trilogy in four parts" on the release of the fourth book. The US edition of the fifth book was originally released with the legend "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named <em>Hitchhiker's Trilogy</em>" on the cover. Subsequent re-releases of the other novels bore the legend "The first second third fourth book in the increasingly inaccurately named <em>Hitchhiker's Trilogy</em>". In addition the blurb on the fifth book describes it as "the book that gives a whole new meaning to the word 'trilogy'".</p><p>The first book was adapted from the first four radio episodes the Primary Phase with Arthur being rescued from Earth's destruction by Ford meeting Zaphod and Trillian coming to the planet of Magrathea to discover the true purpose of Earth and ending with the group preparing to go to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It was first published in 1979 initially in paperback by Pan Books after BBC Publishing had turned down the offer of publishing a novelization an action they would later regret.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br /><em>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe </em>previous owner's name to front paste down. Jacket minor edgewear. <em>Life the Universe and Everything</em> previous owner's name to half title slightly cocked else a very good set or better in near fine jackets. Poster in near fine condition. The poster will be shipped separately.</p> Harmony Books hardcover
Hardback. New. Wordsworth Blake Coleridge and Keats were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond both in relation to late eighteenth-century human sciences and in the context of momentous social transformations in the period of the French Revolution. hardcover
Bookseller reference : A9780521869379 ISBN : 0521869374 9780521869379
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