Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone True First American Edtion Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Highly collectible 1998 Scholastic hardcover, stated first American edition, first printing, first state (ISBN 0-590-035340-3, number line reads 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, printing year 8, printed in U.S.A. 23; see photos on my website, which show actual item), w/ dust jacket, not price-clipped.  Softly textured dust jacket, now with removable mylar protector, has $16.95 price on front flap, raised gold lettering, and no number "1" on the jacket spine.  Dust jacket back has cream ISBN block with the number 51695 encoding the list price and quote from the Guardian with the mis-quoted error.  Cover has red spine cloth with no number "1" and purple boards with diamond embossed/quilted pattern.  Spine also has "J.K." in gold lettering on one line at the top and "Rowling" on the line below it.  Blue endpapers.  Last page is p. 309.   Would be like-new but for slight spine lean, slight cumpling of top and bottom dust jacket spine, and a shallow vertical crease on the free endpaper. Tight binding, no owner's name or other marks and no missing, torn, soiled, or dogeared pages. No bumping or bent corners. 

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Front jacket cover	Back jacket cover with cream ISBN block, number 51695, and Guardian blurb with mis-quotation	Copyright page with number line
Jacket flaps with price of $16.95, also underside of embossed gold lettering	Front cover with diamond pattern on boards	Back cover
Spine with no number 1	Last page is 309
Dust jacket spine also with no number 1	Front endpapers with no owner's name but shallow crease in front free endpapar	Bottom page edge showing slight spine lean
Side page edge	Back endpapers	Top page edge