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New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American edition of Adams' sequel to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ted - Douglas Adams." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Sansone. Jacket illustration by Peter Cross. Uncommon signed and inscribed. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second volume in the "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" series. "What’s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams’s sardonically silly eyes" (Detroit Free Press).

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1998. Signed limited edition of this modern classic. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, original gold silk ribbon, watered silk endpapers. Boldly signed by Douglas Adams. In fine condition. Originally a radio series, broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4, Adams developed the Hitchhiker's Guide into a "trilogy" of five books which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime. A television series, comic books, computer games, film, and live theatre followed. The story of hyper-intelligent beings who build a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything." It is the basis for the 2005 film directed by Garth Jennings, starring Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman.