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By Susan Hatch Oct 28, 2007

Harry Potter can certainly bring home that magical cash. The first Harry Potter book to be published was "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone." Bloomsbury Publishing first printed the book in 1997. It delivered a stunning forty grand at an auction this week. According to the Associate Press the copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

Harry Potter First Edition: $40,000 at Auction!

The book is not signed JK Rowling but it is signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page. It was sold to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house. The head of books at the South Kensington branch of Christie's, Mr Crispin Jackson, said that the book was the best of its kind he had ever seen.

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The UK Telegraph notes that other Potter memorabilia were also on sale, with a publisher's proof copy of the same book in plain covers going for $4,500, and a two signed editions, one hardback and one paperback, went as one lot at $2,500. The paper notes that The Harry Potter franchise has made Rowling the highest-paid novelist in the world.

The seven books have sold almost 400 million copies, and the sixth film in the blockbusting Warner Bros series is due out in 2008.

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