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Author: Rowling, J.K.
Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Place Published: [New York]
Publisher:Levine Books / Scholastic Press
Date Published: [1998]
Description:

Illustrated by Mary GandPré. (8vo) red cloth-backed purple boards with embossed diamond patterns, color pictorial jacket designed by Mary GandPré & David Saylor. First American Edition, First Printing, First Issue.

Far fewer copies of the first U.S. edition of the first Harry Potter book were issued than the sequels in this wildly popular series. First printing, first issue with all the correct points and first issue jacket without the Year 1 stamp on the spine; lone review blurb on the back panel quoted from the Guardian (later changed to Publisher's Weekly); "51695" printed above the barcode to the right of the ISBN; $16.95 on front flap; number line on copyright page going from 10 to 1, etc.

Some light edgewear to jacket, a few small areas of what appears to be dampstaining at top and bottom edge of front jacket panel, mostly noticeable from the jacket backside; light rubbing to board edges; slight bowing to top board; near fine.