Rowling was the first children's author to be voted the BA Author of the Year, and also to win the British Book Awards Author of the Year. Rowling has generated huge popular appeal for her books in an unprecedented fashion. Originally published as an author for children and still primarily so, J.K. The Harry Potter novels are prize-winning and consistently on the bestseller lists. This bestselling series has sold over 100 million copies around the world. All the Harry Potter titles are now available in large print. Moderate browning to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy. The front inner hinge is partly split, at first I thought the flyleaf had been removed but on closer inspection, the front paste-down has been partly detached at inner spine. Clean pictorial hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Dustjacket is not price-clipped and has moderate wear to edges and corners. Spine of dustjacket is colour-faded quite noticeably. Colourful dustjacket with picture of dragon-like creature rearing up over Harry Potter flying past underneath on a broomstick with red band along top of front panel and spine (latter has wider dark blue panel and lower light blue band). 594 reads 'The Imperius Curse, Moody said,' - this was later changed to 'Crouch said'. 579 Harry's father comes out of Voldemort's wand before Lily, Harry's mother, and on p. 503 'Dumbledore, come!' is spoken by Crouch (this was later corrected to Fudge) p. This appears to be an early printing as has some of the errors of the first printing that were corrected in later copies, for example: p.
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