Rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 'exceptional condition' sells for £80,000 at auction
JK Rowling wrote most of the first Harry Potter book while sitting in an Edinburgh cafe
A rare first edition of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in "exceptional condition" has sold for a magic £80,000 at auction. The book was one of 500 hardback copies printed in its first run in 1997 and bought from a Nottingham bookshop.Auctioneers Tennants, of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, had estimated the volume would sell for about £20,000-£30,000.The £80,000 book has a couple of slight misprints which mark it out as a sought-after volume
The £80,000 price ticket for the "exceptional copy, first edition, first impression, case-bound issue" sold on Wednesday excludes the buyer's premium, said the auctioneers. Tennants said 300 of the original books were sent to libraries and many had a "high rate of loss and damage".The sale price is one the highest ever recorded for one of JK Rowling's works.
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