Ads
related to: harry potter first book year released
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
After the release of the fourth book in July 2000, the first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was released on 16 November 2001. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $90 million in the United States alone, which set a record opening worldwide.
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-Upon ...
A first-edition Harry Potter novel that was bought for 13p almost 30 years ago has sold at auction for more than £10,000. The uncorrected proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ...
The proof copy was bought at a publisher’s sale for just £1 ($1.27) back in 1997 – the same year the book itself came out but notably before the Harry Potter series became a global sensation.