Ultra-Rare Proof Copy Of JK Rowling’s First ‘Harry Potter’ Book Auctioned For Up To $25,000 After Being Discovered At UK School
deadline.comIt’s a magical discovery that could be worth up to £20,000 ($25,000). A school close to Oxford has found a proof copy of JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter novel after fearing that the ultra-rare book had been lost.
Only 200 copies were believed to have been printed by Bloomsbury. The book, which even spells Rowling’s name as JA Rowling at one point, was purchased in 1997 for £1 by St Kenelm’s Primary School in the English village of Minster Lovell.
It was available in the school’s library but went largely untouched as children preferred to pick up editions of the novel with illustrated covers.
The school removed it from the library in 2002 after recognizing that the book may be valuable, but it went missing in 2015 and there were concerns it had been trashed with other old paperbacks.
Read more on deadline.com
