A handwritten and
hand-illustrated volume of stories given by J.K. Rowling to the editor who
launched her career sold at auction for £368,750 Sotheby’s in London sold one
of seven original copies of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Сказки Барда Бидля),” produced in 2007 to mark publication of the
final Harry Potter novel.
The bejewelled novel had a pre-sale value of £300,000-£500,000 reported the BBC. It’s inscribed to Barry Cunningham, the editor at Bloomsbury who accepted the first Potter book for publication. The dedication reads, “To Barry, the man who thought an overlong novel about a boy wizard in glasses might just sell. THANK YOU.” READ MORE: Is your Harry Potter book worth £40,000? Rowling was a struggling single mother when “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was published in 1997. It and six subsequent novels about the boy wizard went on to sell millions of copies and spawn a successful movie franchise. Sotheby’s said the leather-bound book, adorned with semi-precious stones and a silver skull, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder.
Another of the seven copies, produced for a 2007 charity auction, was bought by Amazon for almost £2 million. The book, a series of fairy tales set in the same magical world as the Harry Potter stories, was published commercially in 2008.
The bejewelled novel had a pre-sale value of £300,000-£500,000 reported the BBC. It’s inscribed to Barry Cunningham, the editor at Bloomsbury who accepted the first Potter book for publication. The dedication reads, “To Barry, the man who thought an overlong novel about a boy wizard in glasses might just sell. THANK YOU.” READ MORE: Is your Harry Potter book worth £40,000? Rowling was a struggling single mother when “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was published in 1997. It and six subsequent novels about the boy wizard went on to sell millions of copies and spawn a successful movie franchise. Sotheby’s said the leather-bound book, adorned with semi-precious stones and a silver skull, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder.
Another of the seven copies, produced for a 2007 charity auction, was bought by Amazon for almost £2 million. The book, a series of fairy tales set in the same magical world as the Harry Potter stories, was published commercially in 2008.
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