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Bloomsbury, 1999. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./Good. Little used. Spine of jacket sunned.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling. Publisher: Bloomsbury, FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION, 4th impression. Number line 10 through to 4. Good hardback with jacket. rubbing and bumping to edges, inscription to ffep, light tanning to pages, foxing to first few pages, minor marks. Jacket has some marks, creasing, chipping and fading.

A twenty-eighth impression of the true first edition, with the number string: 30 29 28 at the bottom of the printer's page, with only "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" listed as 'also available'. ***A very good copy in pictorial colour illustrated boards. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Very slight reading lean to the binding but the spine is tight. The colours of the book are beautifully bright, with no fading, even to the spine. Page block edges lightly foxed. Internally, the book is near fine, with no inscriptions or annotations. Very light sporadic foxing - pages otherwise clean. The paper stock is lightly tanned as usual. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £10.99 on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just light rubbing and creasing to the extremities, mainly at the head of the spine. No serious creases, chips or tears. The colours to the spine of the dustwrapper are just very slightly faded - mainly the purple (please see scans). ***317 pages. 206mm x 136mm. ***'Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework, but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard.' (Quote taken from the first paragraph of the book) ***A twenty-eighth impression of the true first edition of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", in very good condition, in the original dustwrapper. Being such a popular children's book, copies of the early printings from 1999 in reasonable condition (albeit with the above mentioned faults) are far from easy 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.

winner of yhr 1997 triple smarties award 20th impression

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling. Publisher: Bloomsbury, FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 9th impression. Number line 10 to 9. Very good hardback with jacket. Name blacked out inside front board, small corner crease to first 5 pages. Jacket has a little edge-wear and some fading to spine.

335 grams. Children's Edition. Sequence 20 19 18 17.

Fifth impression of the first edition (hardback), with the number line 10 9 8 7 6 5. 8vo (20cm by 14cm), 317pp. Original illustrated boards, dustwrapper. Light tanning of the contents, binding slightly cocked, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0747542155.

VERY GOOD — DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very minor chipping to top left of spine and top outside corners, both panels. BOARDS: Small break to bottom edge, front. BOOK: Very good condition. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.Here on offer is a very nice copy of J. K. Rowling's 3rd entry in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, a fantasy novel and the basis for the 2004 film of the same name. This copy is a 1st UK trade edition, 2nd printing of the work published by Bloomsbury in 1999. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.*********************************************************"For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts... he's at Hogwarts."Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may be a traitor in their midst."//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Joanne Rowling CH OBE FRSL (born 31 July 1965), best known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith. . . . Rowling's Harry Potter series has won awards for general literature, children's literature and speculative fiction. It has earned multiple British Book Awards, beginning with the Children's Book of the Year for the first two volumes, Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets. . . . Rowling was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours for services to children's literature, and three years later received Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Concord. Following the conclusion of the Harry Potter series, she won the Outstanding Achievement prize at the 2008 British Book Awards. . . .The above text was taken from, respectively, A. A. Levine publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.

London: Bloomsbury, 1999. 1st Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. First Edition [third-state printing] of the third Harry Potter instalment. First Edition [Bloomsbury, London, 1999]; 317pp; pictorial boards, bumped at extremities, endpapers mottled [production flaw], pages age-toned, 2cm semicircle stain affecting top of first 30 pages, purple stains p18, a good+ copy only; in like unclipped [£10.99] dustjacket replicating artwork on boards, edges bumped with laminate lifting, top rear torn with loss affecting first two lines of The Times' review. Third State Printing [J.K. Rowling on copyright, ads at rear] of the third instalment of the Harry Potter series. Dustjacket now protected with acid-free polypropylene which enhances the appearance. ISBN: 0 7475 4215 5 / 0747542155

London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First UK Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 317 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine purple, red, and black with yellow and purple lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "£10.00". Minor shelfwear. Textblock clean. Shelved in Case 2. 1371521. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.