Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, First US Edition, First Printing, Scholastic 1998, Signed and Inscribed by J.K. Rowling with Provenance

J.K. Rowling

ISBN 10: 0590353403 / ISBN 13: 9780590353403

Edité par Scholastic, 1998

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In October 1998, J.K. Rowling embarked on a 3-week promotional book tour around America - this was her first of four trips to the United States she would make throughout the rest of the series. The book was inscribed during the first American tour to Bob Enz who was an elementary school principal in San Jose. J.K. Rowling visited and read at Bob's school. A hand written note by Bob (included in this sale) details the visit and his meeting with Jo. This is a beautiful copy of the first US edition with all of the important true first printing points present: The book has a red spine with purple boards, which says J.K. Rowling not just Rowling at the top, it has the numberline 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 and states that it is printed in the U.S.A. The dust jacket is the first state dust jacket whereby the title has raised gold letters, the spine does not have the number 1 on it and will show a quote on the rear of the jacket from The Guardian, not Publisher's weekly. It will also have the correct price of $16.95 on the inner front flap. The book is in fine condition with clean, fresh white pages with no marks or inscriptions of any kind. The boards are square with sharp corners and no toning or foxing to the pages. The front board has an ownership sticker which states 'From the library of Bob Enz' who was the original owner. The dust jacket itself is in fine condition protected in a Brodart jacket cover. This signature and inscription come fully authenticated by Adam Houston theHarryPotterspecialist the world s leading expert in authenticating Jo s signature. It comes with a full authentication package including a letter of authenticity, collector card and provenance. N° de réf. du vendeur 221

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, First...

Éditeur : Scholastic

Date d'édition : 1998

Reliure : Hardcover

Illustrateur : GrandPré, Mary

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Signé : Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

Harry Potter spent ten long years living with Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, an aunt and uncle whose outrageous favoritism of their perfectly awful son Dudley leads to some of the most inspired dark comedy since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But fortunately for Harry, he's about to be granted a scholarship to a unique boarding school called THE HOGWORTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY, where he will become a school hero at the game of Quidditch (a kind of aerial soccer played high above the ground on broomsticks), he will make some wonderful friends, and, unfortunately, a few terrible enemies. For although he seems to be getting your run-of-the-mill boarding school experience (well, ok, even that's pretty darn out of the ordinary), Harry Potter has a destiny that he was born to fulfill. A destiny that others would kill to keep him from.

À propos de l?auteur:

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter books. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first was published as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity, Quidditch Through the Agesand Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. She also collaborated on the writing of a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was published as a script book.

Her other books for children include the fairy tale The Ickabog and The Christmas Pig, which were published in 2020 and 2021 respectively and have also been bestsellers. She is also the author of books for adults, including a bestselling crime fiction series.

J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honors for her writing. She also supports a number of causes through her charitable trust Volant and is the founder of the children’s charity Lumos.

To find out more about J.K. Rowling visit jkrowlingstories.com.

Mary GrandPré has illustrated more than twenty beautiful books, including The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock, which received a Caldecott Honor; Cleonardo, the Little Inventor, of which she is also the author; and the original American editions of all seven Harry Potter novels. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal, and her paintings and pastels have been shown in galleries across the United States. Ms. GrandPré lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her family.