Harry Potter Book Makes £20,000 at Auction

in #news8 years ago (edited)

It might be worth having a look at your harry potter collection again because one of them sold for over £20,000 at auction ( Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale in London) because of a typo.

A first edition of Philosopher's Stone (one of only 500 hardback copies ) the shopping list on page 53 has the word “1 wand” repeated twice.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/these-editions-of-harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-are-fetching-thousands-because-of-a-typo-a7185241.html

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K. K. Rowling writings have become the benchmark for developing fictional stories of times gone-by in the 21st Century. Interestingly enough, since the invention of the movable type press by Gutenberg in Germany in 1463 or thereabout, books have had value. And this fact has not changed even with the advent of the internet and electronic devices such as kindle.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's would fetch more as buyers decide to auction their acquisitions.

Will you edit that to J.K before the spellcheck assholes show up. Please..