New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arthur A. Levine, 1998. Later printing. Red spine, purple boards with diamond pattern have light edge & corner wear and a few spots. Rear endpaper has some creasing. Otherwise, book is clean & solid. Dustjacket has very light general wear. Price on spine is $17.95 - "Year 1" on spine. Number line reads "35 34 . . . 9/9 0/0 01 02". Printed in U.S.A. 45 - First American edition, October 1998. In brodart. A nice copy. (Bx 156). Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.
Scholastic PRESS/ARTHUR A. LEVINE. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0590353403 . VG book. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 4th printing. No number 1 on the dust jacket or the book. Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Spine has some play. A few minor bumps to edges and boards and some spotting around bottom left cloth portion of front board which runs into bottom edge of spine. Jacket retains original $16.95 DJ. First book in the Potter series. (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC) ; 8vo .
Stated First American Edition. First Printing with number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02.Book is in Near Fine condition, with only noticeable fault one tiny soil mark near top of page fore-edges.Dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, with minor bumping to corners.
Harry Potter spent ten long years living with Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, an aunt and uncle whose outrageous favoritism of their perfectly awful son Dudley leads to some of the most inspired dark comedy since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But fortunately for Harry, he's about to be granted a scholarship to a unique boarding school called THE HOGWORTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY, where he will become a school hero at the game of Quidditch (a kind of aerial soccer played high above the ground on broomsticks), he will make some wonderful friends, and, unfortunately, a few terrible enemies. For although he seems to be getting your run-of-the-mill boarding school experience (well, ok, even that's pretty darn out of the ordinary), Harry Potter has a destiny that he was born to fulfill. A destiny that others would kill to keep him from.
Scholastic Press, 1998 Us edition in very good dj. later printing no number line not priced on dj, Publisher's weekly review on back board not numbered on spineArthur A. Levine Books / An Imprint of Scholastic Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket art by Mary GrandPre (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Book Club edition of the author's first book (American translation, incorporating 78 textual changes) in earliest known state. Boards are red, not purple & black. Numeral 1 and initials "J.K." absent from spine of both book & jacket; no statement of edition; no number line. "Publisher's Weekly" blurb to rear panel; number 15635 (not 51695) in white rectangle to bottom of jacket rear panel. Illus. by Mary Grandpre. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998 First American edition - 8th printing. 8vo Red cloth stamped in gilt on spine and purple boards with diamond design blindstamped. ROWLING at top of spine and jacket. The numeral 1 does not appear on spine of book or the dust jacket. Blurb on back panel of dust jacket quotes Publisher's Weekly. Clean. Tightly bound. Some slight shelf wear to cover along bottom edge otherwise appears as new. Great jacket condition with $16.95 price has some slight wear at corners. This is not the book club issue which has black boards, early trade printings have purple paper boards and red cloth spines. near Fine/ near Fine..
New York: Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fourth printing of the First Edition (with number line on copyright page "5 7 9 10 8 6 4 8 9/9 0/0 01 02" with "Printed in the US 23 below. First American edition, October 1998" )/ First Edition (stated) of Book One of J.K. Rowling's now classic Harry Potter series. This copy has all the points of the TRUE FIRST US EDITION. Book is bound with red cloth spine with gold lettering and has the diamond pattern purple paper over boards. There is no volume number on the spine. The book has green end papers. The second Issue dust jacket has the original $16.95 price and there is no volume number on the jacket's spine (later printings stated the book number) . The blurb on the back cover of the dust jacket is from Pubisher's Weekly (the first issue had The Guardian review). The back cover of the DJ has 2 bar codes at the bottom, with the numbers 51695 above the smaller one. The "Harry Potter" in gold lettering on the front panel of the jacket is raised and there is no date on the title page. Child's marking with green marker on rear endpapers. Finger smudge at top right corner of page 113 which carries to foredge. Small area of discoloration at very bottom of spine cloth. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text. Record # 412288
Fourth U.S. printing, hardcover. In purple boards with an embossed diamond pattern and a red cloth spine, with the number line "5 7 9 10 8 6 4 8 9/9 0/0 01 02". Below the number line is "Printed in the U.S.A. 23", and below that is "First American edition, October 1998.". The dust jacket has a price of $16.95, a light yellow bar code field with two bar codes in it (the smaller bar code has "51695"), no "YEAR 1" badge and "J. K. Rowling" to head of spine. Mild shelfwear else solid, square and unmarked. Unclipped DJ protected with mylar cover.
NY: Scholastic, 1998. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1998 Scholastic 1st (and possibly Book Club) Edition, 1st printing with a full number line. It is in F/F condition. Compared to the first printings, this is distinctly different in the following ways: 1. It has purple/black boards, not embossed boards 2. "JK Rowling" (not just Rowling) is at the top of the spine. 3. Similar to true 1st editions of the book, there is no number "1" inside a herald-like border on the spine of either the HB or the DJ. 4. On the copyright page is the full number line. 5. Unlike most book club editions, the DJ is priced at $17.95. The original price of the true first edition is $16.95 6. The DJ is flat-printed, not embossed as in the first pressings. Nonetheless, it appears to be a rare, early, unread edition and, therefore, a great value.
Scholastic Press, 1998-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth printing of the First American Edition. (Numberline to 5 on copyright page, no badge to book or jacket, priced at $16.95.) Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, slight lean, light shelf wear.
Scholastic Press, 1998. 309 pages, red boards with gilt on spine, corners and head-heel of spine are bumped, DJ is pictorial, no number of series on spine, does not have numberline, no price on flap--not price clipped. Possible first American printing--with Arthur Levine Publishing through Schollastic by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing.. (unknown). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Grandpre, Mary. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First Book Club Edition. Both book and jacket are in near fine condition with very mild wear. Year 1 printed on spine, with no price present on jacket. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are.
Scholastic Press, 1998. 4 book boxed set, corners and head-heel of spine are bumped, DJ's are pictorial with series # on upper spine. #1 has dark green endpapers and purple boards with red 1/4 binding 42nd printing / #2 is 0-439-06486-4 (1999) 42nd printing with red endpapers and blue boards with green 1/4 binding / #3 is 0-439-13635-0 (1999) 38th printing with red endpapers and green boards with purple 1/4 binding / #4 is 0-439-13959-7 (2000) 9th printing with purple endpapers and maroon boards with black 1/4 binding. Box is nicked on corners otherwise very good. Books are tight and clean with little wear. Extra postage for multiple books is included in price.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Grandpre, Mary. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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