Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
ROWLING, J. K. (b.1965). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, 1998. 8vo (198 x 128mm). Half title (lightly browned at margins, as usual). Original coloured pictorial boards illustrated by Cliff Wright and designed by Michelle Radford, dust-jacket with price of £10.99 unclipped and with reviews from The Sunday Times and The Independent on Sunday on the lower wrapper (tiny abrasion marks to upper cover of boards, jacket with slight wrinkling at edges). FIRST EDITION, third impression, of the second Harry Potter book, with the code numbers "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3" on the verso of the title, the printer stated as "Clays Ltd, St Ives plc" and without the Hogwarts logo on the verso of the title. Errington A2(c). With the same author's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (London, 1999, original pictorial boards, some light spotting to spine, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, second impression, with the code numbers "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2" on the verso of the title. (2)