HARDBACK "UNCOMMON FIRST," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 53rd.* Date of Publication: 1997 * Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated paper covered boards showing the Hogwart's Express, black, white & yellow titles to spine and face only. Triple Smarties Gold Award Winner banner at foot of front cover, No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. Minimal shelf wear. VG++.* Jacket condition: Matching dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine. (Now in clear un-attached archival jacket). VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations or inscriptions. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal age darkening to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None apart from Hogwarts armorial to title page. * Pages: 223 pp. text.* Description: Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who's parents have been killed in a 'car crash.'. He is bullied by them and by his fat, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him much to think about. That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry and all hell breaks loose!* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus, with NO MAJOR FAULTS in a VG++ dust jacket. (Now in clear un-attached protective film cover).*
From at least 2000 with original covers. Price of GBP 10.99 on flap Twenty Sixth Printing. Size: Medium (20 to 26cm). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Mild uniform browning. Dust Jacket slightly sun faded. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges slightly foxed and browned. Minor marks and wear to book. Jacket protected in non-adhesive plastic wrap. ISBN: 0747532699. ISBN/EAN: 9780747532699. **Postage to the USA is suspended due to the idiotic and chaotic tariff situation**
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON FIRST," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 53rd.* Date of Publication: 1997 * Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated paper covered boards showing the Hogwart's Express, black, white & yellow titles to spine and face only. Triple Smarties Gold Award Winner banner at foot of front cover, No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. Minimal shelf wear. VG++.* Jacket condition: Matching dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine. (Now in clear un-attached archival jacket). VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations or inscriptions. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal age darkening to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None apart from Hogwarts armorial to title page. * Pages: 223 pp. text.* Description: Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who's parents have been killed in a 'car crash.'. He is bullied by them and by his fat, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him much to think about. That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry and all hell breaks loose!* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus, with NO MAJOR FAULTS in a VG++ dust jacket. (Now in clear un-attached protective film cover).*
Twenty-ninth impression of the true first edition with just 29 at the bottom of the printer's page. Also stated 'Harry Potter, names, characters and related inidcia are copyright and trademark Warner Bros., 2000 TM' - indicating a publication date of 2000 or later. Also with three further titles including "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" listed as 'also available' - "The Goblet of Fire" was published in 2000. ***Near fine in pictorial colour illustrated boards. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No other bumps or creases to the boards. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. No reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright - just lightly tanned as usual. No creases or tears. The colours of the book are extremely bright and unfaded. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £10.99 on the front flap. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper just very slightly creased, with a very small nick at the top of the spine. No chips or tears. The colours to the spine of the dustwrapper are only very slightly faded, which is very unusual - there is usually quite a lot of fading to the red and the purple colours. ***223 pages. 206mm x 136mm. ***A twenty-ninth impression of the true first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", in near fine bright condition, with a near fine unfaded dustwrapper. Being such a popular children's book, copies in such near fine condition from this period are becoming quite hard to find now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Twenty-ninth impression of the true first edition with just 29 at the bottom of the printer's page. Also stated 'Harry Potter, names, characters and related inidcia are copyright and trademark Warner Bros., 2000 TM' - indicating a publication date of 2000 or later. Also with three further titles including "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" listed as 'also available' - "The Goblet of Fire" was published in 2000. ***Near fine in pictorial colour illustrated boards. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. No other bumps or creases to the boards. Page block edges clean. Very slight reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. No reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright - just lightly tanned as usual. No creases or tears. The colours of the book are extremely bright and unfaded. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £10.99 on the front flap. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper just very slightly creased. No other creases, chips or tears. The colours to the spine of the dustwrapper are virtually unfaded, which is very unusual - there is usually quite a lot of fading to the red and the purple colours. ***223 pages. 206mm x 136mm. ***A twenty-ninth impression of the true first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", in near fine bright condition, with a near fine unfaded dustwrapper. Being such a popular children's book, copies in such near fine condition from this period are becoming quite hard to find now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
A twenty-third impression of the true first edition with number-string sequence 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 at the bottom of the printer's page. Only "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is listed as 'also available', indicating a 1998 printing date. ***Very good in pictorial colour illustrated boards. The boards are clean and unmarked but slightly bowed (please see scans). Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. No other bumps or creases to the boards. Fore-edge of page block slightly marked and with a small abrasion. Very slight reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. No reading creases. Internally also very good with a neat ownership name at the top of the front free endpaper, but no other annotations. Pages clean and bright - just a couple of light foxing spots to the first couple of pages, and paper stock lightly tanned as usual. No creases or tears. The colours of the book are extremely bright and unfaded. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £10.99 on the front flap. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper just very slightly creased. No other creases, chips or tears - just a slight nick to the bottom corner of the front flap (please see scans). The colours to the spine of the dustwrapper are virtually unfaded, which is very unusual - there is usually quite a lot of fading to the red and the purple colours. ***223 pages. 206mm x 136mm. ***A twenty-third impression of the true first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", in very good condition, with a near fine unfaded dustwrapper. Being such a popular children's book, copies in such near fine condition from this period are becoming quite hard to find now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
LONDON: BLOOMSBURY. THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1997. THIS IS A LATER PRINTING. 30TH PRINTING. A TRUE BLOOMSBURY EDITION, NOT THE 'TED SMART' VARIANT. ILLUSTRATED BOARDS, WITH THE SAME COVER ART AS THE DUST JACKET. BOTTOM OF DJ AND FRONT BOARD HAVE 'TRIPLE SMARTIES GOLD AWARD WINNER' IN WHITE PRINT AGAINST A BLACK BACKGROUND. COPYRIGHTED J.K. ROWLING ON THE PUBLISHING DETAILS PAGE, WITH THE WARNER BROS 2000 COPYRIGHT NOTICE ON THE SAME PAGE. Slight wear/creasing on DJ edges. Not price clipped. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Back of DJ depicts the older Dumbledore. Location: ELCB2 . Fine. Hardcover. REPRINT. 2000.
THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1997. THIS IS A LATER PRINTING. 28TH PRINTING. A TRUE BLOOMSBURY EDITION, NOT THE 'TED SMART' VARIANT. ILLUSTRATED BOARDS, WITH THE SAME COVER ART AS THE DUST JACKET. BOTTOM OF DJ AND FRONT BOARD HAVE 'TRIPLE SMARTIES GOLD AWARD WINNER' IN WHITE PRINT AGAINST A BLACK BACKGROUND. COPYRIGHTED J.K. ROWLING ON THE PUBLISHING DETAILS PAGE, WITH THE WARNER BROS 2000 COPYRIGHT NOTICE ON THE SAME PAGE. Slight wear on DJ edges. Not price clipped. Top corner fold/crease on page 39. Page edges are lightly tanned. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions.
Canadian 1st Edition, 5th Printing. In Very Good, mylar-wrapped dust jacket (not price clipped). Dust jacket has the original wizard on the back (not older Dumbledore). Other contained issue points specific only to earlier editions (and fixed in later) are "1 wand" repeated twice on the supply list on page 53 and 'highchair' as all one word on page 8. Numberline runs 10 to 6 (The first Canadian printing was issued with a numberline starting at 2 hence this is the 5th printing with the numberline to 6).
Size: 7x5x1; UK edition, published by Bloomsbury, 1997. 26th printing. Hardcover in jacket over matching pictorial boards. Price intact on jacket flap. Clean and unmarked, some toning to pages. Binding strong. Light edge wear. Jacket now in fresh Mylar. Very good condition. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
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