Christie's to offer rare first-edition Harry Potter book in private sale

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LONDON — A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with some errors and signed by author J.K. Rowling, is going up for a private sale at Christie's in London, with the auction house inviting offers starting from 200,000 pounds (US$250,000) (S$346,000). The publication is one of 500 hardback copies of the book that were printed in an...

A person holds a rare first edition and signed by the author copy of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by British author J.K. Rowling, which is to be put up for auction at Christie's auction house in London, Britain, on May 31, 2022.LONDON — A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with some errors and signed by author J.K. Rowling, is going up for a private sale at Christie's in London, with the auction house inviting offers starting from 200,000 pounds .

The one being sold by Christie's, as part of its upcoming The Art of Literature: Loan and Selling Exhibition, is among the other 200. "On the back cover, for instance, philosophers, which of course is quite a key word... is misspelt 'philosphers', that 'o' that second 'o' is missing. Also on page 53, in the list of items which pupils are asked to take to Hogwarts with them, 'one wand' is repeated twice."

 

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