Harry Potter Paperback Sets World Record

Jim Spencer, director of Rare Book Auctions, with the record-setting paperback copy of Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s Stone. Courtesy Rare Book Auctions via SWNSLast May, a first-edition paperback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the United States) sold for a record $21,250 at Rare Book Auctions in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.This copy was an unusual case: It had never been read. Katrina McNichol had r