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The new edition designed and illustrated by minalima will feature interactive folding pages for the hogwarts acceptance letter, a feast. It, along with the other six books in the series, has been cinematically adapted as well. Only 500 were published, and 300 went to libraries, so if. As a first edition, it should count down 10 9 8 7 6 5 4. Harry potter and the philosophers stone first edition products for. How to tell if you have a harry potter first edition set.
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