“HE’LL BE FAMOUS A LEGEND… THERE WILL BE BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT HARRY EVERY CHILD IN OUR WORLD WILL KNOW HIS NAME!”: FIRST DELUXE EDITIONS OF ALL SEVEN HARRY POTTER BOOKS

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter deluxe editions. London: Bloomsbury, (1999-2007). Seven volumes. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial paper labels, all edges gilt. $5200.

First deluxe editions of the entire run of Harry Potter books.

"A marriage of good writing, inventiveness, and sheer child appeal that has not been seen since Roald Dahl, perhaps even since Tolkien, Lewis and Ransome," Rowling's extraordinarily popular Harry Potter series has become a classic praised by children, teachers and parents; "the emergence of each of the remaining books in the series of seven [will] become an annual event" (The Times). Each volume from the first deluxe edition. Philosopher's Stone was first published in 1997, and Chamber of Secrets was first published in 1998. With the third volume in the series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the publisher decided to release deluxe editions of all of the first three titles, in a larger format with color illustrations on the front covers; subsequent titles all had deluxe editions produced, usually within a few months of the first trade edition. First state of Prisoner of Azkaban, with "Joanne Rowling" on copyright page.

Fine condition.