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Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Description: 8VO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. SIGNED by author J. K. Rowling on title page. Two tone cloth boards. Lower edges show some edge wear, corners bumped. Fore edge soil. Text pages are clean, but for a small soil spot to upper margin of page 66. Color illustrated dust jacket has light wear and looks nice in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Author J.K. Rowling. Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (An Imprint of Scholastic Press). Place: New York (Printed in the USA). Date: Copyright 1999. Description: 341 Pp. 8vo. Signed by Author (Scholastic bookplate adhered to endpaper opposite dedication page. 1/3 publisher's green cloth hardcover, gilt title on spine cover, black/white illustrations head text chapters, protective mylar cover over color illustrated dust jacket. Measures: 1.25 W x 6.5 D x 9.25 H inches. About the work: THE DURSLEYS were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone -- or something -- starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects . Harry Potter himself? (Dust jacket, inside front flap). Condition notes: Fair-Good; book cover wear commensurate with age and use (e.g. damp stained cloth, soiled from handling, boards cloth cover inked), square spine, clean and bright text pages. Dust jacket condition: Fine. See images.
Seller: dC&A Books, Crockett, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 341 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. Tenth printing. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the second novel in the Harry Potter series. The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families. These threats are found after attacks that leave residents of the school petrified. Throughout the year, Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione investigate the attacks. The book was published in the United Kingdom on 2 July 1998 by Bloomsbury and later in the United States on 2 June 1999 by Scholastic Inc. Although Rowling says she found it difficult to finish the book, it won high praise and awards from critics, young readers, and the book industry, although some critics thought the story was perhaps too frightening for younger children. Much like with other novels in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets triggered religious debates; some religious authorities have condemned its use of magical themes, whereas others have praised its emphasis on self-sacrifice and the way one's character is the result of one's choices. Condition: Signed on the title else near fine in a fine jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$3025.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by J.K. Rowling and illustrator Mary Grandpré on title page. Half purple cloth over teal paper boards with embossed diamond patterns. Red endpapers. Metallic green titling to spine with Year 3 badge. Color illustrated dust jacket with metallic green lettering, also including Year 3 badge. Full number line and First American edition, October 1999 stated on copyright page. Slight bump to head and tail of spine on book, dust jacket unaffected. Small, barely visible, scrape to rear of dust jacket. Smoothed out crease to last page and rear free end paper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Certificate of Authenticity laid in stating that this copy was signed by author and illustrator in 2000 at an event promoting the release of Prisoner of Azkaban at Books of Wonder in New York City. Letter provided by Peter Glassman, owner of Books of Wonder.
Seller: Walnut Street Paper, LLC, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3850.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by J.K. Rowling and illustrator Mary Grandpré on title page. Half green cloth over blue paper boards with embossed diamond patterns. Red endpapers. Silver titling to spine, lacking Year 2 badge. Color illustrated dust jacket with silver lettering, also lacking Year 2 badge. Full number line and First American edition, June 1999 stated on copyright page. Slight bump to head of spine on both book and dust jacket. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Certificate of Authenticity laid in stating that this copy was signed by author and illustrator in 2000 at an event promoting the release of Prisoner of Azkaban at Books of Wonder in New York City. Letter provided by Peter Glassman, owner of Books of Wonder.
Seller: Walnut Street Paper, LLC, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.