First Edition Harry Potter Books How To Tell. But generally only the first three in the series have much collectible value,. First, a word about first editions.
A hardcover first edition of ‘harry potter and the chamber secrets’ will often sell for thousands of pounds. It turned out that the original copy of the first “harry potter” novel had an error in harry’s list of items to take to hogwarts. Only an expert can truly identify the value of a harry potter first edition.
You will have to spend around $35,000 to $55,000 to purchase a harry potter and the philosopher’s stone first edition book.
We can pay in pounds, us dollars or euro, and, for higher value items, arrange collection anywhere in the world. Go to the copyright page and look at the series of numbers printed on that page. How do you tell if you have a first printing of the first edition of a harry potter book? Copies of ‘the prisoner of azkaban’ with joanne on the copyright page instead of j.k can be worth up to £1000.