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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arthur A. Levine, 1998. Later printing. Red spine, purple boards with diamond pattern have light edge & corner wear and a few spots. Rear endpaper has some creasing. Otherwise, book is clean & solid. Dustjacket has very light general wear. Price on spine is $17.95 - "Year 1" on spine. Number line reads "35 34 . . . 9/9 0/0 01 02". Printed in U.S.A. 45 - First American edition, October 1998. In brodart. A nice copy. (Bx 156). Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.

Harry Potter spent ten long years living with Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, an aunt and uncle whose outrageous favoritism of their perfectly awful son Dudley leads to some of the most inspired dark comedy since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But fortunately for Harry, he's about to be granted a scholarship to a unique boarding school called THE HOGWORTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY, where he will become a school hero at the game of Quidditch (a kind of aerial soccer played high above the ground on broomsticks), he will make some wonderful friends, and, unfortunately, a few terrible enemies. For although he seems to be getting your run-of-the-mill boarding school experience (well, ok, even that's pretty darn out of the ordinary), Harry Potter has a destiny that he was born to fulfill. A destiny that others would kill to keep him from.

New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998 First American edition - 8th printing. 8vo Red cloth stamped in gilt on spine and purple boards with diamond design blindstamped. ROWLING at top of spine and jacket. The numeral 1 does not appear on spine of book or the dust jacket. Blurb on back panel of dust jacket quotes Publisher's Weekly. Clean. Tightly bound. Some slight shelf wear to cover along bottom edge otherwise appears as new. Great jacket condition with $16.95 price has some slight wear at corners. This is not the book club issue which has black boards, early trade printings have purple paper boards and red cloth spines. near Fine/ near Fine..

New York: Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fourth printing of the First Edition (with number line on copyright page "5 7 9 10 8 6 4 8 9/9 0/0 01 02" with "Printed in the US 23 below. First American edition, October 1998" )/ First Edition (stated) of Book One of J.K. Rowling's now classic Harry Potter series. This copy has all the points of the TRUE FIRST US EDITION. Book is bound with red cloth spine with gold lettering and has the diamond pattern purple paper over boards. There is no volume number on the spine. The book has green end papers. The second Issue dust jacket has the original $16.95 price and there is no volume number on the jacket's spine (later printings stated the book number) . The blurb on the back cover of the dust jacket is from Pubisher's Weekly (the first issue had The Guardian review). The back cover of the DJ has 2 bar codes at the bottom, with the numbers 51695 above the smaller one. The "Harry Potter" in gold lettering on the front panel of the jacket is raised and there is no date on the title page. Child's marking with green marker on rear endpapers. Finger smudge at top right corner of page 113 which carries to foredge. Small area of discoloration at very bottom of spine cloth. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text. Record # 412288

NY: Scholastic, 1998. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1998 Scholastic 1st (and possibly Book Club) Edition, 1st printing with a full number line. It is in F/F condition. Compared to the first printings, this is distinctly different in the following ways: 1. It has purple/black boards, not embossed boards 2. "JK Rowling" (not just Rowling) is at the top of the spine. 3. Similar to true 1st editions of the book, there is no number "1" inside a herald-like border on the spine of either the HB or the DJ. 4. On the copyright page is the full number line. 5. Unlike most book club editions, the DJ is priced at $17.95. The original price of the true first edition is $16.95 6. The DJ is flat-printed, not embossed as in the first pressings. Nonetheless, it appears to be a rare, early, unread edition and, therefore, a great value.

Scholastic Press, 1998. Hard cover. Very good/Good. Early US printing. Book itself has all the signs of being a first printing, but the jacket is from a later printing, possibly a book club edition. Jacket is lightly worn along edges with a half inch tear from top corner of jacket back cover. Very small stain over "P" on jacket front cover, not affecing legibility. Spine is lightly bumped, but binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First Book Club Edition. Both book and jacket are in near fine condition with very mild wear. Year 1 printed on spine, with no price present on jacket. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are.

New York: Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, 1998. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Mary GrandPré. 1998 Scholastic 1st Edition, Sixth printing ( # line to 6 and "First American Edition, October 1998" statement present). A very early printing which does NOT have the number "1" on either the HB or DJ. It is in NearFine/Fine condition and looks unread. There is no color fading, marks, stains, etc. There is a .5 mm dot one-quarter way down the vertical page edge. There are non-creased barely traceable bends in the top front and back square corners. The DJ is not price clipped ( $ 16.95) with no real wear. It has Rowling at the top of the spine (instead of JK Rowling (a change that began with the 5th printing) An excellent copy at a fraction of the price of a first printing! **Brenbooks specializes in first edition books made into films.***

New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998. 2nd printing. 8vo, 309, [1]pp. Illustrations by Mary GrandPré. Publisher's red cloth backed purple diamond-patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt in illustrated jacket. Spine cocked, few smudges to boards else very good in like jacket with some light edge wear and sunned spine. 2nd printing of the first American edition of the first Harry Potter book from Rowling.  Dust jacket is first state with Guardian quote on rear panel.

Scholastic Press, 1998. 4 book boxed set, corners and head-heel of spine are bumped, DJ's are pictorial with series # on upper spine. #1 has dark green endpapers and purple boards with red 1/4 binding 42nd printing / #2 is 0-439-06486-4 (1999) 42nd printing with red endpapers and blue boards with green 1/4 binding / #3 is 0-439-13635-0 (1999) 38th printing with red endpapers and green boards with purple 1/4 binding / #4 is 0-439-13959-7 (2000) 9th printing with purple endpapers and maroon boards with black 1/4 binding. Box is nicked on corners otherwise very good. Books are tight and clean with little wear. Extra postage for multiple books is included in price.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Grandpre, Mary. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.