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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
[Buy it!] | Rowling, J. K. | USD 499.54
(Sat Jun 8 01:40:43 2024) | AbebooksUK | M RICHARDSON RARE BOOKS (PBFA Member) | ISBN10: 0747532699, ISBN13: 9780747532699, [publisher: Bloomsbury, London] Hardcover First Edition A fine, bright copy of the 19th impression of the first book in the Harry Potter series. All the early hardbacks of this are becoming ever scarcer. There are no inscriptions and the pages are clean throughout, albeit a tad toned, especially at the page block edge. This is quite normal for early printings of the Stone. The pictorial boards are looking very bright and fresh still with no obvious marks excepting maybe the odd very minor surface scuff. . There are a couple of very minor knocks, at the top corner of the back board and the bottom corner of the front one, but you really do have to look hard to notice them. The dust jacket is, on the whole, bright and not price clipped. That said there is some very minor edge creasing and general shop shelf wear and the spine has a faint crease along it, which you hardly notice; also the spine is a little sun faded. Nowhere near enough to render the title lettering unreadable but it is somewhat faded. "Triple Smarties Gold Award Winner" banner across the bottom edge of both the jacket and the front board. In all this is a fine copy in very collectable bright condition.
[Ashby cum Fenby, NE Lincolnshire, LINCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997] |
