Harry Potter book purchased for $1 just sold for more than $35,000—on J.K. Rowling's birthday (via CNBCMakeIt)
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"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold for £28,500 to a private collector at a U.K. auction in Staffordshire. It's one of just 500 copies in the first print run."Three phone bidders battled it out," Hansons Auctioneers, the auction house that conducted the sale, tweeted this morning. "I was called to a client's house near Stafford to value three boxes of books, and there it was — the Holy Grail of Harry Potter books," Jim Spencer, a books expert at Hansons, said in"I bought the book along with three or four others to read on holiday about 20 years ago," the vendor, who wished to remain anonymous, told. "I thought nothing of it at the time.
"This book is J.K. Rowling's first book and first in the Harry Potter series," Spencer said in a BBC interview. "She couldn't get a publishing deal. When she finally did, only 500 were printed — and 300 of them went to the library. Everyone has heard of this book. It has won the hearts and imaginations of the young and the old."Like this story?
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