Rowling, J.K. (1999) ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’, UK first edition, first state

J.K. Rowling (1999) ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’, UK first edition, first printing, first state, published by Bloomsbury. First state with ‘Joanne Rowling’ credited on the copyright page, and the dropped text on page 7 as called for. The first print run consisted of 5,150 copies only (Errington: 187), divided into three states. This is one of the scarce first state copies. The trade assumes that roughly 2,500 copies were printed. Hard to find in nice condition if at all.

Condition: a very good plus to near fine copy in a fine dust jacket with few flaws. No previous owner’s scribbles apart from bookseller’s price in erasable pencil to ffep; no bookplates; no stamps. One minuscule bump to top front edge of the board and to the bottom front corner as seen; an almost imperceptible tiny push to the bottom spine; A whiff of foxing to the page block edges, and non-uniform ageing of the prelim pages which is quite common having examined and sold dozens of copies so far.

‘Azkaban’, the third Harry Potter book in the seminal series that has managed to capture the imagination of an entire generation.