A rare first edition of a Harry Potter book has sold for £36,000. Christine McCulloch bought the copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for her son Adam in the 1990s. She said she paid about £10 for the copy from a bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1997 and had no idea the same book would be worth thousands of pounds, 30 years later.

A RARE first edition Harry Potter book bought for £10 nearly 30 years ago is up for auction and could sell for £50,000 because of one small detail. The Philosopher’s Stone first edition is one of

Written by J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the first novel of the Harry Potter series that was published in 1997.

Multiple rare first editions of Harry Potter books, as well as signed editions and proofs are now up for auction from online bidders.

The rare Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone first edition was bought for £10 from a Kenilworth bookshop in 1997.

Christine McCulloch purchased the book for about £10 (approximately Rs 1,070) in 1997 from a Stratford-upon-Avon bookshop as a gift for her son Adam, unaware it would become a valuable collector's item decades later.

Nearly 30 years after being bought for just 10 pounds, a rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold for 36,000 pounds at an auction on Wednesday.