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Illustrated by Mary GandPré. 9x5¾, red cloth-backed purple boards with embossed diamond patterns, color pictorial jacket designed by Mary GandPré & David Saylor. First American Edition, First Printing, First Issue.

Signed by Rowling on verso of half title. Far fewer copies of the first U.S. edition of the first Harry Potter book were issued than the sequels in this wildly popular series. First printing, first issue with all the correct points and first issue jacket without the Year 1 stamp on the spine and the lone review blurb on the back panel quoted from the Guardian (later changed to Publisher’s Weekly) and "51695" printed above the barcode to the right of the ISBN; $16.95 on front flap; number line on copyright page going from 10 to 1, etc.