Is there $18,000 on YOUR bookcase??

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<p>Harry Potter first edition went for $18,000 today. </p>

<p>For fun, checked ours and it’s first edition USA but like 21st printing run if I read it right.</p>

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<p>And remember that for modern first editions the condition of the dust jacket is paramount. It had better be pristine…</p>

<p>I just looked it up and it was the UK first edition, which is the true first. It sold for 9,000 pounds.</p>

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<p>sax, I assume you’re referring to the first edition of the BRITISH version?</p>

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<p>We lived in London when 1st Potter book was published. Author was doing a reading at our local bookstore ~ 15 kids in attendance. We bought the book and subsequent others. Full of English terms - jumper for sweater…kerb for curb, etc. Upon our return to US, generous S lent said book to friend. We haven’t seen it since. I must say that over the years I have thought about its worth. I don’t want to be around when H finds out.</p>

<p>PS - Dare I think it’s an autographed edition??? Oh s***!!</p>

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<p>I do have one from the UK not sure which edition.</p>

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<p>I have the deluxe British first additions of the first 4 volumes. Ought to buy me at least a TV someday. I doubt I’ll retire on them.</p>

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<p>Heres one of the articles <a href=“Discovery Hub - News & Technology”>Discovery Hub - News & Technology;

<p>and here for first edition info <a href=“http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_2423000/2423083.stm[/url]”>http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_2423000/2423083.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>woody…wow</p>

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<p>No, but the guy who installed my new washing machine found six dollars worth of change behind the old one.</p>

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<p>Marian: what? no socks? :)</p>

<p>My H found same when he took dryer apart. How does it get there?</p>

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<p>The BBC’s version of Cash in the Attic had a rare 1st Edition Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone a year or two ago. Apparently the company that first published the book (Bloomsbury?) moved offices a few weeks or months after the book came out. So if you have a first edition with the original address it’s worth much more than a first edition with the newer address.</p>

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<p>Very cool, Novelisto. I love this stuff. Don’t know why but I love it. :)</p>

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<p>Those are known as different ‘states’ or ‘issues’ of the first edition. A first edition is, technically, all the books printed from one setting of type. (There is no more actual typesetting, but the basic idea still holds.) There can be various print runs done from that first edition, and what is valuable is the first printing of the first edition. There may be slight changes made to the book during a print run (such as the publisher’s address or to correct typos), and that would result in a different issue or state of the first printing of the first edition. The dust jacket (also of paramount importance) may have changes made to it as well, so what you really want is a first edition, first printing, first issue book with a first state dust jacket. </p>

<p>I could go on, but this is already probably more than you wanted to know. :)</p>

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<p>We do have a first edition American Harry Potter, signed, but the dust jacket is worn and some of the pages have tiny spots of long-ago lunches on them. In other words, a well-loved book. Maybe $100?</p>