Open your copy to page 53, to the list of supplies that harry buys from the magical suppliers. If it starts at 17, 16, and so on to 10, then it means that it is the 10th print run, and not the first. Next, the printers edition marks (the line of numbers that the printers use to select which printing it is) should read down from 10 to 1, as in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. It must first of all be printed no later than 1997 by Bloomsbury Publishing, and be in first hardcover format. To detect whether your first edition Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is valuable, you have to make absolutely sure that you are holding in your hands a first edition. Her success has ensured her books a lasting legacy that will undoubtedly affect generations to come.Īre they valuable? Yes, but only in their proper first edition state, and doubly so with any authorial provenance attached (by which we mean inscriptions and signatures).

Her books - The Harry Potter Series - have been so immensely successful throughout the globe that they truly have changed the children's literary scene for our generation. However, there is always the exception to every rule, and we are always glad to be proved wrong! JK Rowling is one such fine example. For this reason many book collectors will hesitate before we start listing the relative value of a hot new author as compared to a literary classic. The authors' success is so fresh, so modern that it can often be mistreated and spoilt by too much publicity, the pitfalls and perils of celebrity, and the vagaries of the economy.

When considering the ultra-contemporaries (the authors who have made their success in the last twenty years or so) it is always very tricky to judge how valuable or collectible a book will be. Collecting the Contemporaries: Is Harry Potter Valuable Yet?

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