Harry Potter First Edition Auctioned
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- Harry Potter First Edition Auctioned
- China goes Potter-crazy
- Harry Potter a left-wing hero: French newspaper
- Guillermo del Toro now up for Potter movie?
Harry Potter First Edition Auctioned
FOX News - Oct 29, 2007
us LONDON — A copy of J. Rowling’s first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” published in 1997 and signed “Joanne Rowling” on the back of the title page, was sold to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie’s auction house. At a London auction in May, a copy of “Philosopher’s Stone” inscribed with a personal dedication to the owner sold for more than $55,000, including buyer’s premium. The book was published by Bloomsbury PLC with an initial print run of about 500 copies. Many were purchased by libraries, making copies in good condition extremely rare.
China goes Potter-crazy
åèåé - Oct 29, 2007
com | 10-29-2007 14:14 Harry Potter mania hit Beijing on Sunday as fans queued for hours to make sure they were the first to lay their hands on the Chinese version of the seventh and final instalment of the boy-wizard’s saga. Eager fans were outside this bookstore in downtown Wangfujing at the crack of dawn. Hundreds dashed to the tills once the doors had opened, desperate to find out what will happen to their hero in the final episode "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". Some couldn’t even wait to get home before cracking open their copies for a quick peek. Around 1 million copies of the hard-back book went on sale in the capital with more than 2,000 customers in this store alone, reserving copies of the book ahead of time.
Harry Potter a left-wing hero: French newspaper
abc.net.au - Oct 29, 2007
(Reuters: Alessia Pierdomenico). To mark the French publication of the final instalment of the adventures of J K Rowling’s boy magician, France’s leading left-wing daily Liberation, devoted Friday’s front cover and two more pages to answering the question “Why Harry Potter is of the Left”.
Guillermo del Toro now up for Potter movie?
Hollywood News - Oct 29, 2007
“When I read the books before the movies were done, Ialways pictured Charles Dickens. They were very Dickensian. Thesituation of Harry Potter reminded me a lot of Pip from ‘GreatExpectations. ‘ I saw them as deeper, more creaky, more corroded, butthey were textured very differently when the first two movies came out. They were so bright and happy and full of light, that I wasn’tinterested. Now that the films have gotten darker, is he now interested? “If they come back to me, I’ll think about it. ” He said to the site.