Harry Potter

[ELVIS68]

How much is a first edition hardback of Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince worth?

[{Dakota}]

Not very much

http://www.catchthesnitch.com/books/first_edit ions/

[ELVIS68]

I saw one for sale in a charity shop today for �15, seeing it was a first edition I thought it might be worth a few quid :o(

[honky-tonk]

Price guides on Harry Potter books http://www.firsts-in-print.co.uk/harry_potter. html

[{Dakota}]

PMSL! That's about what it was worth when it first came out!

I have the first edition of the first two books but I'm not parting with them.

There was also a book I read when I was a teenager that I loved, I recently did a search for it and came across a site selling first editions. Well, it transpires that I wasn't the only one to love the book and they're going for, on average, �800!

No way was I paying that, so I did a search on e-bay and I won a bid for a first edition for...........1p!!!!!! *and* the seller described it as mint condition because it was gifted to her, she didn't fancy it and it's been sitting on a book shelf for all these years, she wasn't wrong there, it really is mint condition!

Clearly, the seller didn't do her research and I'm quids in very soon!

[ELVIS68]

Nice one Dak


Jammy b!tch! ;o)

[{Dakota}]

Tell me about it!!

The author crumbled under pressure and paid for the printers to re-print and is selling them from her own website for �11.99 (not first editions, obviously), so I bought one from her (she signed it too, which was nice of her) for me to read and saved the one from ebay so it remains mint condition.

I think I'll wait until later in the year before selling it and keep the money aside for crimble prezzies :0)