Got a few old Harry Potter books knocking around? They could be worth up to $AU77,000
IF YOU were thinking of selling your old copies of Harry Potter for cheap at a book sale, you might want to hang fire and read this.
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IF YOU were thinking of selling your old copies of Harry Potter for cheap at a book or garage sale, you might want to hang fire and read this.
It turns out certain editions of the famous series could net you a pretty penny — despite the fact the first book was published less than 20 years ago.
Author Philip W Errington has compiled a chart showing how much early editions of the wizard’s tale are likely to be worth now.
He gleaned the information while working at auction house Sotheby’s and unveils the findings in his new book J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography 1997-2013.
Unsurprisingly the older the copy, the more money you’re likely to get for it.
If you’re jammy enough to own a hardback edition of Harry Potter and the Philsopher’s Stone, published by Bloomsbury, with a cover showing Harry stood by a train, crack open the champers.
According to book site AbeBooks, this rare print could earn you up to AU$76,000, especially if it is credited to Joanne Rowling instead of J.K. Rowling.
A softback of the first book and a hardback of the second, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, could fetch up to AU$12,500.
Not quite as impressive, but still not to be sniffed at.
J.K. Rowling’s third Potter book about Harry’s adventures with the Prisoner of Azkaban, published by Bloomsbury, is also worth hanging on to.
It is likely to go for around AU$900, equal to the value of the American print of the first version where the title was changed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Later titles from Goblet of Fire to The Deathly Hallows are printed in huge numbers to meet increased demand.
So unless you have a signed copy or a special edition, they probably aren’t worth more than a couple of hundred dollars.
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