The first edition of Harry Potter costs £36,000

Christine McCulloch purchased the duplicate of Harry Potter and the Logician’s Stone for her child Adam during the 1990s.
She said she paid about £10 for the duplicate from a bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1997 and had no clue a similar book would be worth a huge number of pounds, after 30 years.
On Wednesday, the primary release was sold at Uncommon Book Sales in Lichfield, Staffordshire, with the purchaser paying £45,000 altogether with a purchaser’s premium.
The book is one of just 500 hardback duplicates distributed in the very first Potter book print run in 1997, as per Hansons Barkers.
It had been given a valuation of somewhere in the range of £30,000 and £50,000.
Adam McCulloch, from Tansley, Derbyshire, said the duplicate had been left in a cabinet under the steps of his family’s previous house in Chesterfield – similar as Harry Potter in the book and film series.

The family only became aware of its possible worth during the 2020 shutdown after reading about the first editions. “Once we got it verified it was a bit of a pinch yourself moment,” he explained.
Ms. McCulloch recalled the day she purchased the book in 1997, saying, “We went in [the bookshop], bought it for £10.”Like so many kids nowadays, Adam was enthralled with the book and it sparked this kind of enthusiasm. According to her son, it was the ideal moment to share the book with others.
“In some ways, I think having that bit of a story around it, some tea stains there and a folded over corner here where someone’s enjoyed reading it – I think that adds to the magic,” he stated.