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Estate Excellent Used Condition, Vintage Out of Production, First Edition
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
NY: Harmony Books, 1984
Author: Douglas Adams
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Cosmic Humor
Dust jacket intact and protected the book within. See photos for condition, corners etc.
A must for Arthur Dent, Trillian, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Douglas Adams, and the Hitchhiker fans!
From the web:
About this book: “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) is the fourth book of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of six books" written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A song of the same name was featured in the 2005 film adaptation of the book.
————In SLATFATF, Arthur returns home to Earth, rather surprisingly since it was destroyed when he left. He meets and falls in love with a girl named Fenchurch, and discovers this Earth is a replacement provided by the dolphins in their ”Save the Humans” campaign. Eventually, he rejoins Ford, who claims to have saved the Universe in the meantime, to hitch-hike one last time and see God's Final Message to His Creation. Along the way, they are joined by Marvin, the Paranoid Android, who, although 37 times older than the universe itself (what with time travel and all), has just enough power left in his failing body to read the message and feel better about it all before expiring.
———-This was the first Hitchhiker's novel which was not an adaptation of any previously written story or script. In 2005 it was adapted for radio as the Quandary Phase of the radio series.
——In 1993, “Library Journal” said that SLATFATF was "filled with loopy humor and pretzel logic that makes Adams' writing so delightful". Betsy Shorb, reviewing for “School Library Journal,” said that "the humor is still off-the-wall but more gentle than the other books. The plot is more straight forward and slightly less bizarre than its predecessors."
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Rhodium is in the Platinum family of metals.
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--FYI: Sterling 925 or Euro Silver 800, 835, 900 - vintage European silver is
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