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The edition was signed by author Rowling.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher Bloomsbury announced a nationwide competition, in 2012, in search of the UK&#8217;s &#8220;biggest Harry Potter fan&#8221;, allowing entries to make their case in 50 words. A 16-year-old Chloe Esslemont won the exclusive edition.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 26, Esslemont decided to sell her most precious possession for $9,723.20 at an auction in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Esslemont said, \u201cI&#8217;ve kept the book wrapped up in the attic for years. Everyone was Potter mad when I was at school. I dressed up as Hermione for World Book Day and my Nan knitted me a Gryffindor scarf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still like the Potter books, but I won this prize 10 years ago. It&#8217;s been gathering dust and the money would be useful now\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The rarest Harry Potter edition<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hansons Auctioneers, a seller of rare books with a special interest in the Harry Potter rare editions, sold the special edition.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Spencer, Hansons\u2019 book expert, says \u201cthis book is unique\u201d. The Hansons website stated, \u201cTechnically, this is the rarest Harry Potter book I have ever handled \u2014 and I have assessed hundreds.&#8221; The original 500 copies of &#8220;The Philosopher&#8217;s Stone&#8221; that rolled out in 1997 are considered the most valuable; Jim Spencer discovered 18 and sold one almost perfect for $85, 118. He said, &#8220;This new find is particularly scarce\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The first 15 books were exclusively published to mark Potter\u2019s 15<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary and were sold publicly, Spencer said he &#8220;traveled from the Midlands to Cumbria, right on the border of Scotland, to collect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The special edition is sold at a lower price than the first edition, regardless of being scarce.<\/p>\n<p>Before the sale, Spencer said, &#8220;The value is completely unknown. I haven&#8217;t found another one for sale, or have sold, anywhere. I don&#8217;t even think there&#8217;s even a picture of one online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, the Harry Potter first edition was sold for $471,000 at a bidding war in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Maddalena, Heritage Auctions\u2019 executive vice president, said \u201cAnd not only is the most expensive Harry Potter book ever sold, but it&#8217;s also the most expensive commercially published 20th-century work of fiction ever sold. This result shows the power of that combination of literature and cinema.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Harry Potter almost didn\u2019t roll out<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Before Bloomsbury published 500 copies of \u201cHarry Potter: The Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u201d, it was rejected by many publishers. Many of these ended up on shelves of public libraries, making it impossible to identify the first edition copies.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t long until the main character\u2019s name became a common name. Since then, more than 120 million copies have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Though the few first editions are still considered to be highly prized, one leather-bound edition out of the 15 copies that were published in 2012 is also now a part of the same club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JK Rowling\u2019s first edition copy of the first book, \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u201d, was sold for $85,118 in March. On Friday (16.12.2022), an unknown edition was sold at an auction. A decade ago, the 15th-anniversary edition of the Harry Potter series was rolled out exclusively for 15 competition winners. 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