How your Harry Potter books may be worth up to $55,000
 

How your Harry Potter books may be worth up to $55,000
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Accio jackpot!

The British branch of AbeBooks, an online marketplace for used, rare and out of print books, has released this guide to rare editions of Harry Potter which may be worth a small fortune — and **, they're **t all UK first editions.

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Signed copies, U.S. first editions, and rare printing where J.K. Rowling's name was rendered as "Joanne" on the copyright page will all net you many thousands of dollars

But naturally, it's the very first copies of the very first book that stand out

"500 first editions [of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone] were published, 300 of them disappeared into the British library system, and the other 200 were used to spread the word about the boy wizard," reports the online book retailer in this video. "Those first editions have become the holy grail of rare Harry Potter books." Read more...

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