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True First American Edition. First Printing. June 1999 Hardcover. Mary Grandpre illustrator A VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND FIRST PRINTING of book #2 in the Harry Potter series. Complete number lines: 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 and 9/9 0/01234, Printed in the USA 37; stated First American Edition, June 1999 on copyright page. RAVE REVIEWS FROM USA TODAY, BOSTON GLOBE AND THE NEW YORK TIMES. Author, J. K. Rowling has received The Hans Christian Anderson Award, the highest award in children's literature. Her "Harry Potter" series has sold more than 400 million books and has become the best-selling book series in history. Leading magazine editors named her the "Most influential Woman in Britain." Winner of: National Book Award (U.K.), Gold Medal Smarties Prize (U.K.), Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 1998,School Library Journal of 1998, Parenting Book of the Year Award 1998. New York Best Book of the Year 1998 and an ALA Notable Book. Now published in 80 languages. Book Condition: near fine. First issue WITHOUT "2" on the spine of hardcover. Green spine cloth and 3/4 purple paper boards diamond imprinted design, red endpapers;light bumping/edgewear,top and bottom spine. Pages are clean and crisp. Illustrations on title page and beginning of each chapter by Mary Grandpre' Jacket design by Mary Grandpre' and David Saylor. Typo on page 332 "Ancestor" instead of "decedent" denotes a first printing. Dust Jacket: near fine. First state dust jacket (without #2 on spine.) Raised names in silver on front of dust jacket; original price on endflap.One chip on upper spine. Protected in archival cover. Unread copy- crisp and clean. Size 8vo, 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" tall. Imagination and fantasy begin with the Harry Potter series. Harry returns to Hogwarts School and his troubles begin again. A true collectable- a collector's collectable.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The book centers around Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and his quest to uncover the mystery surrounding the Chamber of Secrets.