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Schools sitting on Harry Potter goldmines?

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 12 November 2002 | News

Some schools might be sitting on valuable proof editions of the first Harry Potter book.

Two hundred copies of the first edition of JK Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” are still not accounted for. There were sent out to schools for feedback. They are now valuable items for collectors, so could net these schools a sum of £16,000 for each copy.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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