Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone

New York: Scholastic Press, (1998). First edition, 2nd printing. 8vo. 309 pp. Original diamond lilac pattern and crimson cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original first-state unclipped ($16.95) dust-jacket. Trivial edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Handling and shelf wear faint. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light handling wear present. Faintest spotting to top text block. Trace forward lean. Corners mostly quite sharp. Spine foot mildly pushed in. Interior clean and unmarked. Signed by the author to the prelim verso, dedicated to the previous owner, provided with laid-in provenance.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and other awards in the US. 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 been translated into at least 73 other languages and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name, as have all six of its sequels. The novel has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it the third best-selling novel of all time.”