Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Price: $3,000.00
GrandPre, Mary. Hard Cover. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. First American Edition. Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
Illustrated by Mary GrandPré. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Rowling in black marker and Mary GrandPré in pen on the title page. Publisher's quarter purple cloth and teal paper-covered boards stamped in a repeating diamond pattern, lettered in metallic green to spine, and orange endpapers; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by GrandPré with her illustration of Harry and Hermione riding Buckbeak to front board, stylistically lettered in metallic green. Fine book; fine unclipped dust jacket. Overall, a practically pristine copy. With Barnes and Noble guidelines sheet for J. K. Rowling signing, and Books of Wonder ticket for Mary GrandPré signing laid in. Errington A7(b). A pivotal novel in the Harry Potter series, The Prisoner of Azkaban was published before the series reached the level of popularity and cult following that it has today, but still received critical acclaim. In his third year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter and his friends search for the villainous outlaw Sirius Black after his escape from the wizard prison Azkaban. Unlike the first two books in the series, The Prisoner of Azkaban does not end with a cut-and-dry triumph over evil, but rather begins to pose the question of how media portals and popular perception affect whether someone is considered good or bad- a notion that recurs and becomes increasingly central to the story line as the series progresses. 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 #JKR121
