Description: Very Good ++ condition! Dust jacket protected by a Broadart Cover. Spine strait and tight, a few slight bumps to cover edges and corner. See last 4 pictures for condition details. True First American Edition, First Printing - Impression of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. 1997. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. All first edition first printing states exist including the following: - The copyright page has the full number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02". - Below the number line is "Printed in the U.S.A. 23", and below that is "First American edition, October 1998." - Boards are purple with an embossed diamond pattern, and a red cloth spine. - The dust jacket has a $16.95 price on the upper corner of the front flap. - The dust jacket back has a cream/light yellow bar code field with two bar codes in it, and the smaller bar code says "51695". - The dust jacket back also has a single quote from The Guardian, London saying "Harry Potter could assume the same near-legendary status as Ronald Dahl's Charlie, of chocolate factory fame." Later issue dust jackets have a substitute quote from Publishers Weekly. - The top spine of both the book and the dust jacket lists "J.K. ROWLING" and lacks the "YEAR 1" badge. - The gold lettering is raised on the spine of the dust jacket. Note: There are book club editions that have the same full number line as the true first U.S. edition. But they lack the embossed diamond pattern on the book boards. A book club edition is far less valuable than the true first U.S. edition.
Price: 2649 USD
Location: San Diego, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, 1st Printing
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic
Topic: Fantasy
Character Family: Harry Potter
Subject: Young Adult
Original/Facsimile: Original
