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Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter Complete Deluxe Edition Set in Seven Volumes: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone [with] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince [and] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Publisher: Bloomsbury, London;
Date of Publication: 1997
Stock Code: 11942
All First Editions thus. A complete seven volume set in harlequin colours of the first printings of the Deluxe editions; with the required 1 - 10 number sequences in each book. Publishers’ cloth with gilt titles to spines and upper board, and square colour pictorial onlay to upper board inside gilt ruled border, above author’s facsimile signature blocked in gilt; all edges gilt; satin place-markers. No jackets (as issued). Gilt edges very slightly rubbed; a near fine set. By the time of the publication of The Prisoner of Azkaban had come around Bloomsbury Publishing were beginning to realise that they had a publishing phenomenon on their hands. Interviewed in 2013, Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury stated ‘ if you think of any of the great children’s classics, there would tend to be a really nice edition. Harry Potter deserves it more than anything we have ever published’. The books then were published with the gift market in mind. The Prisoner of Azkaban was the first to be published (Errington p. 199) in September 1999 with The Philosopher’s Stone and The Chamber of Secrets published simultaneously just a few days later. The print run of all three is unknown but was in a limited number, with The Prisoner of Azkaban appearing as a first printing most rarely. £2750.00