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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , copyright © 1979 by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe , copyright © 1980 by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything , copyright © 1982 by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish , copyright © 1985 by Douglas Adams
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe , copyright © 1986 by Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless , copyright © 1992 by Serious Productions
Foreword copyright © 2002 by Neil Gaiman
Introduction copyright © 1986 by Douglas Adams
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. This edition was previously published by Random House Value Publishing as The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide and also in separate volumes.
Grateful acknowledgment is given for lyric excerpts from “You’ll Never Walk Alone” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright 1945 by Williamson Music, Inc. Copyright renewed. All rights managed by T. B. Harms Company c/o The Welk Music Group. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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ISBN 9780345453747
eBook ISBN 9780307498465
First Ballantine Books Edition: May 2002
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