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London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first issue of the second novel in Rowling's Harry Potter series. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. Jacket design by Cliff Wright. The second novel in Rowling's acclaimed Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, when a series of cryptic messages appear on the walls of the schools corridors warning that the heir of Slytherin has arrived to kill all pupils who are not descended from entirely magical families. When the book was published in 1998, “...Bloomsbury was a little less cautious” than they had been upon publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the previous year, “but the first printing was still minuscule, considering the demand. Estimates range between 1000 and 2000 copies… They have been notably scarce” (Smiley, 52). The film adaptation of the novel, released in 2002…

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.