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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams 6-in-1 omnibus, last few copies on our website!

Out-of-Print. Hardbound. The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide series by Douglas Adams, complete and unabridged (Part 1 to 6). Portland House Publishing, leatherbound, gold gilted edges, ribbon satin marker.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.

Life, the Universe and Everything
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.

Mostly Harmless
Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?

plus the short story: Young Zaphod Plays it Safe

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
Delta of Venus: Erotica by Anais Nin
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui (UK)
Legends II: New Short Novels by The Masters of Modern Fantasy (HB)
What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Sex And The City by Candace Bushnell
The Lurker at the Threshold by H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
The H.G. Wells Reader: A Complete Anthology from Science Fiction to Social Satire
Immortality by Milan Kundera
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
The Beach by Alex Garland
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Virtuous Vampires (Hardbound, Bloch, Bradbury, Zelazny)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (John Green, Johnson & Myracle)
Idoru by William Gibson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
Within the Hollow Hills: An Anthology of New Celtic Writing
The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison: Wilderness Volume 1
Eleven British Poets: An Anthology Edited by Michael Schmidt

The Moon by Whale Light by Diane Ackerman
Sometimes The Magic Works: Lessons From a Writing Life by Terry Brooks (Hardbound)
England 1868-1914: The Age of Urban Democracy by Donald Read
Mortification: Writers’ Stories of their Public Shame
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
A Shite History of Nearly Everything- A. Parody (Hardbound)
The Government Manual for New Wizards
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
The Encyclopedia of The Classical World
Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking ‘Round Europe (Lonely Planet)
The Sion Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
The Picador Book of Sports Writing (Edited by Nick Coleman and Nick Hornby)
Fontana History of Europe: Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815 by George Rude
Plato Not Prozac! by Lou Marinoff, Ph.D.
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future
1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List
Don’t Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth Davis
The Unending Mystery: A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazes
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Great Books by David Denby (1997)
Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middles Ages to the Present
Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin (Hardbound)
Panati’s Extraordinary ORIGINS of Everyday Things
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information

Comics Trade:

Blondie: The Bumstead Family History (Hardbound)
Fantastic Four by J. Michael Straczynski (Vol. 1), Comics TPB
The Amazing Spider-Man: Kraven’s First Hunt, Comics TPB
Marvel Essential: Captain America Vol. 5 Comics TPB
Stephen King The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (Hardbound), Comics TPB
Stephen King: The Dark Tower, Treachery Vol. 3 (Comics TPB)
Marvel Zombies 4 (Comics Trade Hardcover)
Marvel Zombies Return (Hardbound) Comics TPB
Marvel Essential: Avengers Vol. 5 (Comics TPB)
Marvel Essential: X-Men Vol. 7 (Comics TPB)
Wolverine: Origin Comics TPB
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 5: Ghost Box (Comics Trade Hardbound)
Excalibur: Visionaries Vol. 2 by Warren Ellis (Comics TPB)
The Mask Returns (Dark Horse Comics Collection), Comics TPB
X-Men Noir: Mark of Cain, Comics TPB
Avengers Prime (Comics Trade Paperback)

Others:

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set
Dungeons & Dragons Premium Dice (2008)
Dungeons & Dragons: Paladin Power Cards (Player Handbook)
Dungeons & Dragons: Warden Power Cards (Player Handbook 2)
Dungeons & Dragons: Bard Power Cards (Arcane Power)
Dungeons & Dragons: Invoker Power Cards (Player Handbook 2)
Dungeons & Dragons: Shaman Power Cards (Player Handbook 2)
Dungeons & Dragons: Warlord Power Cards (Martial Power)

Thanks for looking!

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Most books in this batch are in very good-good condition, some slightly used. Some may have price stickers/used book tags, we might not remove them when you order from this post. There are no junks, you will be notified if condition deserves some clarification before purchase.

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Field Notes: Expedition Edition is the 17th release of the Field Notes Colors special edition.

via Field Notes:

“FNC-17″ marks the start of our fifth year of FIELD NOTES COLORS. In that time, we’ve explored a wide variety of papers, colors, and printing techniques, but with this new “EXPEDITION” edition, for the first time, we’ve actually expanded the basic utility of our notebooks.

Aesthetically, you’ll find an all-new design with plenty to like: a hi-visibility “Antarctic Survey Orange” front cover and “Polar Night Black” back cover, with a subtle varnish effect featuring a topographic map of Antarctica. The body pages feature our popular ‘dot grid’ graph paper, printed in light gray.

But the real innovation here is the paper. It’s maybe not even fair to call it paper. The whole book is printed on Yupo Synthetic paper, an amazing water- and tear-proof paper extruded from polypropylene pellets in Chesapeake, Virginia. We could go on and on about our new books’ durability and incredible properties, and we will, in this series of 12 (reasonably) scientific tests:

TEST 1: WATERPROOF (Pass)
TEST 2: VISIBILITY (Pass)
TEST 3: WIND RESISTANCE (Pass)
TEST 4: BALLISTICS (Pass)
TEST 5: VACUUM (Pass)
TEST 6: TENSILE STRENGTH (Pass)
TEST 7: COMPRESSION (Pass)
TEST 8: ACID RESISTANCE (Pass)
TEST 9: FLAME RESISTANCE (Fail, but fun to watch)
TEST 10: EXTREME TEMPERATURE (Pass)
TEST 11: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES (Pass)
TEST 12: ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE (Pass)

Months of development and testing were required to get these books just right, and we’d like to thank Yupo for their extensive support, as well as the great printers and ink technicians that pitched in to help.

The majority of our customers may not test the limits of these books, but the map of Antarctica is neither hyperbole nor coincidence. We’ll be sending the “EXPEDITION” edition to the South Pole with explorer Ben Saunders as he and his team retrace Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Pole and back, on foot and unsupported, starting in October 2013. More on that soon.

Note: Synthetic paper is nonporous and doesn’t absorb ink like our conventional papers.

Our new “Expedition” FIELD NOTES are pretty close to invincible, at least by notebook standards, but waterproof paper is nonporous and doesn’t soak up ink like most paper. That’s good in some ways (no bleeding, feathering, or show-through), but it does limit the writing implements you can use. Regular ball-point pens and pencils work fine, but pens that lay down a lot of ink, like fountain pens, rollerballs, and markers, don’t dry as quickly, and may smudge and/or come off on the opposite page (as seen in the last example in the photo).

Your “Expedition” 3-Pack is wrapped in a bellyband made of the same Yupo paper that’s in the books, so (after trying to tear it!) you can test your pens there and see what works best.

Field Notes COLORS: The Expedition Edition and other Field Notes products are exclusively available on Avalon.ph (PhP450.00).

Fashionary Sketchbook RED (limited, A5), Fashionary Planner 2013 (16-Month Weekly) and Fashionary Kids Figure Memo Pad. Now available in the Philippines only via Avalon.ph!