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A rare first Harry Potter book sold for £45,201

J. K. Rowling reading from *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone* at the White House Easter Egg Roll, 5 April 2010. Photographer: Daniel Ogren; original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._K._Rowling_2010.jpg. CC BY 2.0; attribution: “Daniel Ogren, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.” No edits.
a first American edition of *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone* without its dust jacket. Photographer: BrokenSphere; original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Potter_Book_1,_1st_American_ed._without_dust_jacket.JPG. CC BY-SA 3.0 (or GFDL); attribution: “BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.” No edits. It is a US edition photographed in 2010, not the UK first-impression copy that sold at the 2024 auction.
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J. K. Rowling reading from *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone* at the White House Easter Egg Roll, 5 April 2010. Photographer: Daniel Ogren; original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._K._Rowling_2010.jpg. CC BY 2.0; attribution: “Daniel Ogren, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.” No edits.

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On 19 June 2024, a first-edition, first-impression copy of *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone* sold at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh for £45,201 including buyer’s premium. It was one of 500 hardback copies in the first UK print run.