![]() ![]() "Not only is it the most expensive Harry Potter book ever sold, it’s the most expensive commercially published 20th-century work of fiction ever sold," Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena said in a statement. ![]() Previous auction prices for Harry Potter first editions have ranged from about $110,000 to $138,000. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States, India and the Philippines as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus from a screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by J. The final price was more than six times the pre-sale estimate of $70,000. The Dallas-based auction house said only 500 copies with the specific binding were printed. The book was published in the United States as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The hardback 1997 British edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," with a color illustration on the cover, was described by Heritage Auctions as "magical, incredibly bright and so very near pristine." LOS ANGELES, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A first edition of "Harry Potter" sold for $471,000 in the United States on Thursday in what the auctioneers said was a world record price for a 2Oth century work of fiction. ![]()
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