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THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND CONCERN. I WAS TAKING WILD GUESSES; PRICES HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY. First UK editions: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (x 2) $199 Bloomsbury, UK. First Edition - with printing errors! New with dust jacket, hardcover. *These feature rare printing errors on three pages that were corrected in later editions and are priced accordingly. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (x 2) $75 Bloomsbury, UK. First edition. New with dust jacket, hardcover. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Adult Edition(x1) $99 Bloomsbury, UK. First edition. New with dust jacket, hardcover. Small crease at front (see picture). *Features the "adult version" of the cover and unedited text. Released contemporaneously with the normal UK edition. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (x2) $55 Bloomsbury, UK. First edition. New with dust jacket, hardcover. Other UK editions: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban $50 Bloomsbury, UK. Third edition. Used with dust jacket, hardcover. Slight water damage at top corner. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (x4) $75 Bloomsbury, UK. Deluxe first edition. New in shrinkwrap. Features gilt edges and gilt lettering, gilt signature on cover. Cloth bookmark and artwork by Mary GrandPre. The Harry Potter Gift Set $99 Bloomsbury, UK. Contains Harry Pottery and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in slipcase. Both in Very Good+ condition. First US editions Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (x2) [b]$25/B] Scholastic, First American edition. New with dust jacket, hardcover. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows $75 Scholastic, First American edition. New with dust jacket, hardcover. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (x3) $125 Scholastic, First Deluxe American edition. New in slipcase in shrinkwrap. Acid-free paper, gilt cover, gilt edges, gilt signature, Mary GrandPré artwork, cloth bookmark.
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The cover art is completely different. The deluxe edition comes in a slipcase, with artwork on the front and back of the case, and a facsimile of J.K. Rowling's signature on the top. Unwrap it, slip the book out of the case, and the same artwork, minus the borders and lettering, is on the dust jacket. The book's cover is all black with the title information in vertical lettering on the spine (just like the 'spine' of the slip case, but in metallic purple instead of gold). The black cover material is acid-free. The paper the book is printed on is also acid-free. Open the book and you will find the color artwork from the regular edition's dust jacket has been used for the endsheets of the deluxe edition, minus the title, author, and publisher information. The front cover art is the front endsheet, and the back cover art is the back endsheet. In addition, a unique color frontispiece illustration is on the page facing the title page. At the beginning, or head, of each of the 30 chapters there is a small illustration, just like in the regular edition. However, at the back of the book each of these illustrations has been enlarged and given a page of its own, with a cutline describing it.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $99 Scholastic, Collector's edition. New w/ leather cover and mylar cover. Leatherette with tooled edges, gilt inscriptions on cover, gilt pages, 70lb. acid-free paper and illustrations by Mary GrandPré, glassine dustwrapper.
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Originally Posted by holymadness View Post
First editions are worth $400? I have some family members who are going to be ecstatic to learn that (not).

Nice....
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^ Depends on where it falls in the series, some are.

Added items.
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Awesome thread!
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(quickly go check my own harry potter collection to see if first edition)
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LOL
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why so expensive
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Originally Posted by TieMyShoe View Post
why so expensive

Because they are first editions of the best selling books since the bible.
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Originally Posted by Blackhood View Post
Because they are first editions of the best selling books since the bible.

How are any of these rare then?
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Originally Posted by narcissism View Post
How are any of these rare then?
Exactly. I don't mean to thread-shit or anything, but the only real rarity in the HP series would be a UK first edition of Philosopher's Stone, which was printed in a much more limited run before the series took off and became popular. Pretty sure copies of this puppy regularly auction for the tens of thousands of dollars, if not substantially higher by now.
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Didn't realise these were worth so much. My mother has a signed first edition philosophers stone with some errors that was given out at Harrods with a golden ticket. I might ask to borrow it...
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Originally Posted by MalfordOfLondon View Post
Didn't realise these were worth so much.
My mother has a signed first edition philosophers stone with some errors that was given out at Harrods with a golden ticket.

I might ask to borrow it...

I forgot to mention that, once they're signed, they're worthless. The ink degrades the paper, and eventually the entire book will simply disintegrate. That book isn't worth its weight in paper anymore, I'm afraid. Might as well send it to me for $5 or so. It'll be more than you'll ever get for it.
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Originally Posted by MalfordOfLondon View Post
Didn't realise these were worth so much.
My mother has a signed first edition philosophers stone with some errors that was given out at Harrods with a golden ticket.

I might ask to borrow it...


Dolla, Dolla bill y'all.
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Originally Posted by Arrogant Bastard View Post
I forgot to mention that, once they're signed, they're worthless. The ink degrades the paper, and eventually the entire book will simply disintegrate. That book isn't worth its weight in paper anymore, I'm afraid. Might as well send it to me for $5 or so. It'll be more than you'll ever get for it.

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