Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Price: $17,500.00
GrandPre, Mary. Hard Cover. New York: Scholastic Press, 1998. First American Edition. About Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
Illustrated by Mary GrandPré. First American edition, first printing, in a first state dust jacket: spine lacking Year 1, dust jacket priced at $16.95 and with review from The Guardian on the rear panel. Signed by J. K. Rowling and Mary GrandPré in pen on the title page. Publisher's red cloth and purple boards with diamond pattern in blind, lettered in gilt; in its original pictorial dust jacket designed by GrandPré, with an illustration of Harry catching the Snitch to the front panel, illustration of Dumbledore and Hedwig to the rear panel, lettered in gilt. A touch of rubbing to spine gilt, else fine book; fine unclipped dust jacket. Overall, a superb copy. With San Marino Toy and Book Shoppe order form and numbered J. K. Rowling signing ticket laid in. Errington A4(a). First published by Bloomsbury in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1997, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first book in the Harry Potter series. It introduces both Harry and readers alike to the secret, magical world of wizards and witches in England. Although often regarded as a children's novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone topped adult reading charts in both the United States and the UK. As Michael Winerip praises in his 1999 New York Times review, "like Harry Potter, [Rowling] had wizardry inside, and has soared beyond her modest Muggle surroundings to achieve something quite special." Mary GrandPré is best known for illustrating the American editions of the seven main books in the Harry Potter series. In 2015, she received a Caldecott Honor for her work on The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art, with text by Barb Rosenstock. During the COVID-19 pandemic, GrandPré turned to hand-making sock monkeys as a form of stress relief, which she subsequently auctioned for charity. Item #JKR119
