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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first Welsh translation, hardback, Bloomsbury 2003, signed and inscribed by the translator, Emily Huws to the front-free endpaper. Book appears unread. Spine tips are firm and corners remain sharp (one corner lightly creased). Interior is very clean. Book is entirely square with no lean. Fore edge and text block entirely unmarked. No sunning to the spine of the unclipped dust jacket, which is fine in appearance. A fine copy.

First illustrated edition published by Bloomsbury in 2015.  4to., original red publisher's boards, backstrip lettered in blue, with publisher's device to foot; together in the original unclipped dust jacket (£30.00), featuring a wonderful picture of the hogwarts express; pp. [viii], 1-245, [iii]; a near fine copy; the dust jacket with tiny amounts of rubbing to the corners; two corners of the boards have minor compression. A nice copy. First UK illustrated edition, with many sketches, drawings and illustrations by artist Jim Kay. He has signed his name without dedication to the title page. A copy in giftable condition. 

SIGNED Later printing, 61st printing. Book near fine, minor wear at corners. Comes with certificate of authenticity.

A fine Ted Smart edition in a fine dust jacket, signed by J. K. Rowling on the title page. Eighth printing of this edition. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Published by special arrangement with Bloomsbury. Tiny snag at bottom of dj spine.

SIGNED 6th Ted Smart printing. Signed by author on title page. Book very good plus, minor rubbing to corners and spine ends.

First edition, first print, with a JK Rowling signed Bloomsbury bookplate attached to the front free endpaper. A fine copy; internally unmarked, with no ownership name. Bright and unmarked scarlet boards, no bumps to the edges, light push to spine foot, very light pushing to one corner (see final photograph). Blue ribbon marker. A lovely and very fresh copy wrapped in a clear plastic jacket and housed in a custom-made box.

A fine early printing signed by Rowling with her authentication hologram. Signed at the Harrogate International Festival in 2014, with the original of the ticket for the signing.

First paperback edition, very early fifteenth printing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, signed and inscribed by the author ['To Amanda, Best wishes, J.K. Rowling'] on the dedication page. This copy features the very early signature variation when Rowling was still using periods to separate the 'J' and the 'K' in her signature. She dispensed with these in late summer of 1998 to create a more fluid signature. The book is inscribed to the original recipient and presents a lovely example of this rare signature variation. It has been fully authenticated by J.K. Rowling signature expert Adam Houston of The Harry Potter Specialist and comes with a Letter of Authenticity (LoA) and a collector's card with interesting details. The book is in very fine, unread condition. The boards are excellent, with only very minor fading towards the spine, vibrant colours and without the usual laminate issues. Only the lower front corner tip is very slightly pushed; the other corner tips and spine ends are still very sharp. The binding is very tight, and the pages are bright and clean, without inscriptions, names, dog-ears, or other flaws .Comes in a half-leather clamshell box. A highly collectible copy of a very early signed and inscribed first edition.

First edition, twentieth impression (numberline reading '20' on title verso), paperback issue, inscribed by the author 'to Adam, with best wishes, J K Rowling' on the dedication page in black ink, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers with Smarties Gold Award Winner label to upper cover, spine sunned, textblock toned as usual. The pages are clean with no marks or bookplates. Overall, a beautiful copy.

First edition, fourth printing of the rarest book in the Harry Potter series, a cornerstone of young adult literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, "For Jenny, who does believe in magic (I do too, really) (but don't tell anyone) J.K. Rowling." Also, with an original drawing of Harry Potter by jacket illustrator Thomas Taylor. The recipient, was the vendor's daughter Jenny, who was seven years old at the time, at the Edinburgh Literary Festival in August 1997. Jenny's mother wrote in her journal for that month "We all went to hear Joanne Rowling reading from her first children's book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and were so impressed we bought a copy and Ms. Rowling signed it for Jenny. Jenny read "Harry Potter" first, then me and now she is reading it again so Peter has'nt had a chance yet! It really is a very good read". Rowling appeared in the Tepee Tent, the smallest venue at the festival, reading extracts of the book to an audience of less than fifty people. Jenny's mother recalls that "Jenny was aged 7 and very into wizards, magic, fairies and the like so when she took the book to be signed, she had a whispered question for Joanne Rowling-hence the inscription in the book." At the time of the book's publication in 1996, illustrator Thomas Taylor had just graduated from art school and was working at Heffers Children's Bookshop in Cambridge. At Heffers, Taylor educated himself on the children's book market and its major publishers and decided to submit a portfolio of his illustrations to the offices of Bloomsbury Publishing, including several drawings of dragons and wizards. Taylor heard back from Bloomsbury's editor, Barry Cunningham (who had recently decided to take a chance on publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone after it had been rejected by twelve other publishers) almost immediately. Cunningham phoned him at Heffers and asked if he could create a design for the cover of a relatively unknown author's first book about a schoolboy wizard. He sent Taylor an incomplete manuscript of the book and, after two days, Taylor had a final product: a watercolor painting of a young Harry Potter with his lightning-bolt scar standing next to the Hogwarts Express on Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. In very good condition. A unique inscription and drawing. The first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on June 26, 1997 by Bloomsbury and in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999 and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. The majority of reviews of the popular book were favorable, revering Rowling's imagination, humor, simple, direct style and clever plot construction. Rowling's style has been compared to that of Jane Austen (her favorite author), Roald Dahl (whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter), and even the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer. The first book in the series was followed by six sequels published on an annual basis between 1997 and 2000. The series has sold more that 500 million copies worldwide and has been â‹translated into 80 languages, â‹making it the best-selling book series in history and among history's most translated literary works. ⋠The last four books in the series consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books of all time, where the final...