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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1)by J. K. RowlingHardcover Cloth 309 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition later printing 1998 with corresponding number line. Attractive quilted purple boards with red buckram spine and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Gift inscription on page facing title. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with bumped corners. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That's because he's being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. But everything changes when Harry is summoned to attend an infamous school for wizards, and he begins to discover some clues about his illustrious birthright. From the surprising way he is greeted by a lovable giant, to the unique curriculum and colorful faculty at his unusual school, Harry finds himself drawn deep inside a mystical world he never knew existed and closer to his own noble destiny.

New York: Scholastic Press, 1998. First US Edition/8th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. An early printing (8th) with no series number to top of spine, Publishers Weekly review to rear panel, raised type to Harry Potter on the title, and purple boards with red spine cloth with gilt. Some wear to spine ends and fading to bottom board edges. A few smudges/marks to rear board and top page ends. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding. Spine slightly cocked. Unclipped jacket($16.95) has light wear to spine ends and creases to flaps.

New York, NY: Scholastic, 1998. First edition. 1st American Edition. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Grandpré, Mary. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Harry Potter, 1. Audience: Children/juvenile.

Full sized book club edition with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 so likely printed from first edition plates. In black boards with burgundy spine (No year number) and gilt to type. Light ding to bottom rear corner and some light wear to spine ends. Shallow vertical crease to first 20 pages or so. Clean interior and tight binding. No price on textured jacket which has 'Year 1" to spine, no embossing to title and Publishers Weekly blurb to rear cover.

New York: Levine/Scholastic, 1998. Reprint of first edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 309 pp. No writing inside; hinges sound. Very clean. Top of dust jacket tender at spine. Fine in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

New York: A.A. Levine Books, 1998. First American edition; 28th printing. Hardcover. Extremely mild wear to corners, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corners, light soiling to front board and fore-edges, loose binding to spine head hinge, bright pages in tight binding, extremely mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, exceedingly gentle rubbing to DJ corners, binding slightly rolled; else overall Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.. Octavo in purple-brown DJ, gilt to spine, vi, 309 pages, b&w illustrations; 24 cm. Price of $17.95 to sleeve. Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Contents: The Boy Who Lived -- The Vanishing Glass -- The Letters from No One -- The Keeper of the Keys -- Diagon Alley -- The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters -- The Sorting Hat -- The Potions Master -- The Midnight Duel -- Halloween -- Quidditch -- The Mirror of Erised -- Nicolas Flamel -- Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback -- The Forbidden Forest -- Through the Trapdoor -- The Man with Two Faces. Wizards -- Juvenile fiction.

Scholastic, 1998. 11th printing. This book and dust jacket have most of the points of a true First Edition, other than the number line, which is 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 9/9 0/0 01 02. The next line says "Printed in the U.S.A. 37". The last line is "First American edition, October 1998". The boards have a purple diamond-embossed (quilted) pattern, with a red cloth spine. The spine has no number and says "Rowling". The dust jacket flap price is $16.95. The barcode includes the number 51695. The spine says "Rowling" and has no "Year 1" logo. The words "Harry Potter" are in raised gold letters. The back panel has a blurb by Publisher's Weekly. The spine is slanted and softened at the ends. Previous owner's name is written on the front pastedown. In a sound binding with hinges intact. The dust jacket is softened at the spine ends and has small spots of wear at the corners. There is some underside dampstain at the spine tail, not visible on the outside. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Scholastic, 1998. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Mary Grandpre. Octavo, 309 pages, black. boards, appears unread; in a mylar dj protector. The First Printing, with complete number line, in a revised state of the dust jacket with a variant of no price on the front flap, and with the numeral '1' at top of spine, and a new review from Publishers Weekly of dj. Also, the text on the lower dj flap tells of J. K. Rowling's hard times and prizes. Scholastic used the artwork of a single illustrator across the series: Mary Grandpre. To [Arthur A.] Levine this is part of the image and branding of the series. He noted ' ... I have always said this is a classic book. This is a book that you remember when you're thirty-five and you remember when you were ten. And that was the book that changed your life. There's continuity there - when you see that on your shelf you think, wow this is that book ...' ." - [ Errington A4(c) note - reporting 35,000 copies in the first printing]. NOTE: the first american illustrated deluxe edition, in deluxe hardback, appeared in November, 2015 - see Errington A4(i).

Octavo in purple-brown DJ, gilt to spine, vi, 309 pages, b&w illustrations; 24 cm. Price of $17.95 to sleeve. Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Contents: The Boy Who Lived -- The Vanishing Glass -- The Letters from No One -- The Keeper of the Keys -- Diagon Alley -- The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters -- The Sorting Hat -- The Potions Master -- The Midnight Duel -- Halloween -- Quidditch -- The Mirror of Erised -- Nicolas Flamel -- Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback -- The Forbidden Forest -- Through the Trapdoor -- The Man with Two Faces. Wizards -- Juvenile fiction. Extremely mild wear to corners, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corners, light soiling to front board and fore-edges, loose binding to spine head hinge, bright pages in tight binding, extremely mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, exceedingly gentle rubbing to DJ corners, binding slightly rolled; else overall Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arthur a Levine, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first book in the series introduces boy wizard Harry Potter. We believe this to be a book club edition with the following points of issue: a full number line is followed by "8 9/9 0/0 01 02." "Printed in the U.S.A. 23" and then "First American edition, October 1998" appear below the number line. Boards are black (not embossed with the diamond pattern) with a maroon spine. Dust jacket is priced at $17.95. The bar code section on the jacket is cream with nothing printed above the smaller bar code. The dust jacket also features a Publishers Weekly review on the back cover. The lettering is not embossed and is a dull brown color on both the front cover and the spine. The spine of both the book and the dust jacket lack a "Year 1" badge. The jacket has the author's name as just "Rowling" though the book has "J.K." above "Rowling." This particular copy is in beautiful condition and is exceptionally clean with no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Not an ex-library copy. The spine is tight and crisp, and the corners are square. Boards are clean, flat and true with no evidence of wear. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows minimal edge wear but does have some bumping to the upper spine and some creasing along the top and bottom edges on the back cover. A great-looking, affordable alternative to a true first! This highly collectible, fine/near fine, book club copy is protected with an archival mylar dust jacket cover. Satisfaction guaranteed!