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Antiques Roadshow guest speechless as her battered old Harry Potter book given mind-blowing price tag

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HARRY Potter fans were racing to their attics tonight after a battered old copy of the book bagged an eye-watering valuation on Antiques Roadshow.

One copy - of the Philosopher's Stone - was in such terrible condition that the cover had fallen off. The other, a copy of The Chamber of Secrets, was in better condition but together they are worth £5,000.

However, there is a very good reason as expert Justin Croft explained on Antiques Roadshow. He was initially unimpressed telling guest Helen: "These are possibly the worst condition I've seen on the Roadshow." However, he discovered the Chamber of Secrets was a first-edition - and both had been signed by the author.

The book's owner explained: "Growing up, Harry Potter meant an awful lot to me and my family. "The Harry Potter paperback I have there I was given in my stocking one year for Christmas and when I started reading it I couldn't put it down. "When the second book came out JK Rowling came to the Edinburgh book festival and she did a signing afterwards.

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