Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
£20,160
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
London: Bloomsbury, 1997. 8vo, original pictorial boards, 223 pp., spine rolled, spine-covering and laminate perished, wear to extremities, scuffs and score-marks to covers, text-block browned, ownership inscription 'Holly 1997' to front pastedown, a few other marks to endpapers, light staining to pp. 187-90, doodling around headline on p. 193 [Errington A1(a)]
Footnote
Note:
First edition, first impression, case-bound issue, one of 500 copies, with all the requisite points: the copyright page dated 1997, with the numberline down to 1 and with the author credited as 'Joanne Rowling'; page 53 with '1 wand' repeated; and the rear cover with misprints 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' (for 'Witchcraft and Wizardry') and 'Philospher's Stone'.