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The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and other awards in the US.
The Elephant House was one of the cafés in Edinburgh where Rowling wrote the first part of Harry Potter.. The series follows the life of a boy named Harry Potter.In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US), Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs in the house of the Dursleys, his aunt, uncle and cousin, who all treat him poorly.
Lauren Tarshis has written 23 books for the I Survived series as of April 2023. [17] They are historical fiction books about children who survive different disasters throughout history, including storms, wars, battles, genocides, terrorist attacks and wild animal attacks. The tagline for the series is "When Disaster Strikes, Heroes Are Made."
The unidentified 58-year-old Scottish woman's rare first-edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold at auction on Dec. 11, fetching $69,000 for the novel she found in a ...
A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for £36,000 after being bought for around just £10 in 1997.. Christine McCulloch, who bought the book in Stratford ...
Normally a book must date back at least to the middle of last century to be worth tens of thousands of dollars. The exception is Harry Potter, the bespectacled hero of Hogwarts who burst upon the
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time. As of June 2017, the series has been ...
In late 1997, film producer David Heyman's London offices received a copy of the first book in what would become Rowling's series of seven Harry Potter novels. The book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was relegated to a low-priority bookshelf, where it was discovered by a secretary who read it and gave it to Heyman with a positive review.