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A fine hardcover in a fine dust jacket, no remainder marks. Bindings are square with tight bright pages. A very sharp collectable book club copy. Book Club edition of the author's first book (American translation, incorporating 78 textual changes -- "car parks" become "parking lots," "dust bins" become "wastebaskets" or "garbage cans," etc.) in earliest known state. Boards are red, not purple & black. Numeral 1 and initials "J.K." absent from spine of both book & jacket; no statement of edition; no number line.

New York: A.A. Levine Books, 1998. Stated 1st American edition, 19th printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine DJ. Book review newspaper clipping "What's jewish about Harry Potter" laid in. In arhival mylar sleeve.. Hardcover quarto in color illustrated DJ. vi, 309 pages: b/w illustrations; 24 cm. Jacket has $17.95 printed to flap. Series: Harry Potter Series;; 1; "Year 1"--Spine. Abstract: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Contents: The Boy Who Lived -- The Vanishing Glass -- The Letters from No One -- The Keeper of the Keys -- Diagon Alley -- The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters -- The Sorting Hat -- The Potions Master -- The Midnight Duel -- Halloween -- Quidditch -- The Mirror of Erised -- Nicolas Flamel -- Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback -- The Forbidden Forest -- Through the Trapdoor -- The Man with Two Faces. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary organization) -- Juvenile fiction. Wizards. Magic. Schools. Family -- Orphans & Foster Homes. Social Themes -- Friendship.

New York: Arthur A. Levine, 1998. 5th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Grandpre, Mary. Name and phone number, inside front cover, slight spine tilt. Light edge, corner wear to dust jacket.

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