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FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION first printing, with complete number line. SIGNED to the title-page and with a FULL-PAGE pencil sketch by Jim Kaye of Fawkes the Phoenix to verso of front free endpaper. Square quarto, pp. [8], 258, [6]. Colour illustrations by Jim Kay throughout, many full-page. Publishers' orange cloth with metallic green titles to spine, silk place-marker and pictorial endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A Fine copy in like jacket, with a vivid full-page sketch of Fawkes to the verso of the front free endpaper and with the bold signature of Jim Kay to title page dated 20/10/2016, without dedication. The first ever illustrated edition of the second title in the classic Harry Potter series, with original artwork by Jim Kay, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

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.