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Illustrated by Mary Gandpré. 9x6, Half cloth & boards, color pictorial jacket designed by Mary Gandpré and David Saylor, custom cloth slipcase. First American Edition, First Printing, First Issue.

Gift inscription and author's signature on verso of half title. Bookplate signed by Mary Gandpré laid in. 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.