Douglas Adams’Hitchhiker’s GuideGets a Glorious New Folio Society Edition

If you ’ve been wanting to pick upa collectible editionof Douglas Adams’Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy , here ’s your chance just out front ofTowel Day(May 25!)—and if you playact early , you just might get your men on the most prized variation number ( fans of the book already be intimate : it ’s 42 ) .

Tomorrow , the Folio Societyis releasing a special edition of Adams ’ trilogy in five parts , boast “ 70 illustration by Jonathan Burton , 35 unparalleled to these new volumes , and an exclusive preface by inspirational physicist Carol Rovelli . ”There are just 750 of these sets being created ; they ’ll be hand - number and contract by the illustrator “ on a limitation tip shining with holographic silver . ” The binding designs , also created by Burton , are similarly lucullan , “ blocked in an eye - catching rainbow of foils and , arranged next to each other , they create a pleasing single simulacrum . The five volumes are presented in a display box paroxysm for the President of the Galaxy himself , part - bind in glittering grim cloth with an blowup of silvery maven on the inside . A transparent window — with DON’T PANIC scratch in large friendly letters — allow a peek at the foil - blocked spines . signalise by the creative person , this splendid edition is completed with a unique print of the Guide itself . ”

If you order by 1 p.m. UK sentence on Tuesday , May 23 ( one entry per client ; that ’s 8:00 a.m. ET , by the way ) , you will be entered into a random drawing to decide who gets sent set number 42 . And even if you do n’t get number 42 , as Folio Society aficionado can already guess , the special edition itself is snazzy enough ( and pricey enough ) to be the only Hitchhiker ’s Guide version you ’ll ever call for on your shelf . Click through to see some model of Burton ’s art ; the twofold page spreads and black - and - livid illustrations are new , plus you could see a few of the illustrations previously publish in earlier Folio Society editions . Depending on where you hold out , you may order the set through the publisher’sU.S.orUKstore .