Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Rowling, J.K.

ISBN 10: 0590353403 / ISBN 13: 9780590353403

Published by Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, New York, 1998

About this Item

First printing with the full number line. Illustrated by Mary Grandpre. Signed by Rowling on the half-title page. Good in a Very Good first-issue jacket, unclipped ($16.95), bumped at the edges. Quarter red cloth with purple patterned paper on the boards, bumped at the corners, rubbed at the edges. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, stains at the edges, a half-moon stain at the far edge of the first thirty pages. The first US printing of the first book in Rowling's best-selling series.

Seller Inventory # 13150

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590353403
• ISBN 13: 9780590353403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: GrandPré, Mary
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Books

About this title

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.

About the Author

J.K. Rowling is the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which have sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She also wrote three short series companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which later became the inspiration for a new series of films. Harry’s story as a grown-up was later continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany.

In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, which she initially published for free online for children in lockdown, later donating all her book royalties to help vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honors for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of the children’s care reform charity Lumos.

For as long as she can remember, J.K. Rowling wanted to be a writer, and is at her happiest in a room, making things up. She lives in Scotland with her family.