So for some reason I had the urge to look at my Harry Potter books today. I got rather excited when I thought that my copy of the first book might have been a first edition.

After looking around for awhile, I discovered that the first 3 books all have “Fist published in …” in them, and there is actually a line of number that shows what edition it is.

My get rich quick plans died as quickly as they sprung up.

But then I decided to look at my other books. Turn out the Prisoner of Azkaban is actually a  First Edition, First Printing, First Issue. Plus an uncorrected text block on Page 7 and copyright Joanne Rowling (rather than JK Rowling).

I didn’t look a lot farther than that, but it looks like it might be worth a decent amount. So that’s fun.

So if you got into harry potter early, check out the copyright page of your first three books. Look for a number string – 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. If you find that, you might be in luck. =D

Happy searching.