Friday, January 03, 2020

The Early Harry Potter Books Are Worth a Lot Of Money

Another inscribed first-edition Harry Potter book, shown at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh in 2017. Neil Hanna, AFP/Getty Images

Mental Floss: Two Harry Potter Books Worth Nearly $4000 Showed Up on Antiques Roadshow

First-edition Harry Potter books are extremely valuable—even more so if their pages contain a handwritten note from JK Rowling herself. A schoolteacher who owns early copies of Harry Potter book 1 and 2 in the series had both of these factors working in her favor when she brought them to the BBC program Antiques Roadshow for appraisal. Together, the two books are worth £2,000 to £3,000 (approximately $2600 to $3900), according to expert Justin Croft, who evaluated the books in a recent episode filmed in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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WNU Editor: They probably will be worth a lot more 50, 100 years from now.

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