A rare first edition of a Harry Potter book has sold for £36,000. Christine McCulloch bought the copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for her son Adam in the 1990s. She said she paid about £10 for the copy from a bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1997 and had no idea the same book would be worth thousands of pounds, 30 years later.

Written by J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the first novel of the Harry Potter series that was published in 1997.

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A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for £36,000 after being bought for around just £10 in 1997. Christine McCulloch, who bought the book in Stratford-Upon-Avon for her son Adam in the Nineties,

Nearly 30 years after being bought for just 10 pounds, a rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold for 36,000 pounds at an auction on Wednesday.