The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy lettered

8.a.i Standard Black: Quarter handbound in black metallium wicotex cloth, hand marbled boards, two colours foil stamping. Matching colour metallium black cloth slipcase. Printed letterpress on Munken Lynx Rough Ultra White 150gsm paper. Limitation 375.

8.a.ii Standard Champagne: Quarter handbound in champgne metallium wicotex cloth, hand marbled boards, two colours foil stamping. Matching colour metallium champagne cloth slipcase. Printed letterpress on Munken Lynx Rough Ultra White 150gsm paper. Limitation 375.

8.b Deluxe: Handbound full white goatskin leather binding with black leather onlay, two colours foil stamping. White buckram slipcase capped with corresponding black leather. Printed letterpress on Munken Lynx Rough Ultra White 150gsm paper. Limitation 250.

8.c Lettered: Handbound full green goatskin leather binding, two coulours foil stamping, black letehr onlay, 3 black stained edges. Printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine 148gsm paper. Limitation 26.

Lettered state

Limited to just 26 copies, the Lettered Edition is letterpress printed in two colours by Phil and Robert from Hand & Eye Letterpress on Mohawk Superfine 148gsm and is 276 pages in total. The colour images have been offset printed on the page by Gomer Press, and the typography and B&W overprinted by Hand & Eye.

The design is based on an actual Hitchhikers Guide from the story and based on 80’s technology when the book came out.

The enclosure is covered in a pewter grey leather and has 42 individual “keys” recessed into the front board. The front and the spine also have “screens” made up of leather onlay with foil stamping, and a Perspex covering to finish the design.

Inside the book is fully bound in green leather and represents the “inside gubbins” of the guide. There are three passes of all over foil stamping and the design is based on the motherboard from an Acorn BBC Microcomputer System from 1981. The front board also has a hand speckled leather onlay and has hand-flecked edges to all three sides of the bookblock.

This edition is signed by the contributors and the artist Gary Gianni.

The other editions: Standard Black - Standard Champagne - Deluxe