I looked for a copy of this book everywhere and didn't find it but the library had a copy. "HAD" a copy 8] I payed for it no worries just told them my backpack was stolen and the book was in it. This was when I was a kid and ebay was something new and untrustworthy. lol It is still untrustworthy lol
You aught to check out Barnes and Nobel. They were and might still be carrying reprints of the original paperback cover. For a reasonable price I seem to recall.
O I have a copy now and it is an origanl first print. lol cause like I said the library "HAD" a copy but now I have it lol. And this was when I was young and before barnes and noble became well known. Where only place to buy books was a mom and pop book store or walmart and other places like it.
Fun fact (s):
With Douglas Adams having been a writer and script editor for Doctor Who and the explosion of popularity that H2G2 also enjoyed, there have been so many in jokes and "tip of the hat" references made in Doctor Who that the two series are inexorably linked.
So much so, that it could be said that they are canonically linked and are in the same universe.
For example, the Fourth Doctor has been seen reading a book from H2G2 and the Tenth Doctor speaks of Arthur Dent in such a way that it's not just a literary charecter reference, but implied they've met.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywKilWkX4jA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikdFUcWluyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vS4z6ngQo
With Douglas Adams having been a writer and script editor for Doctor Who and the explosion of popularity that H2G2 also enjoyed, there have been so many in jokes and "tip of the hat" references made in Doctor Who that the two series are inexorably linked.
So much so, that it could be said that they are canonically linked and are in the same universe.
For example, the Fourth Doctor has been seen reading a book from H2G2 and the Tenth Doctor speaks of Arthur Dent in such a way that it's not just a literary charecter reference, but implied they've met.
I somehow missed/forgot that. I aught to reread them then.
Then there's the audio book, one unabridged read by Steven Fry... then another read by Douglas Adams himself.