Description
Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Some slight foxing to the first page, some small notes in pencil at top left of page two, and a very slight crack to the back hinge. Otherwise a fine copy in the bright jacket. First Australian Edition, First Printing. The Australian edition is distinguished by the presence of advertisements at the rear, the absence of a printer’s name on the copyright page, and thicker paper stock. The first printing of the Australian edition was formerly accepted as the third state of the first UK edition, as listed by Errington in his bibliography of Rowling. Hardback. Published by Bloomsbury 1999