The 'rarest Harry Potter book ever seen' which was won by a schoolgirl a decade ago is expected to fetch £10,000 at auction after being found gathering dust in a loft. Chloe Esslemont was aged 16 when she entered a Harry Potter competition in 2012 run by publishers Bloomsbury’s.
She won a leather-bound special 15th anniversary edition of The Philosopher’s Stone - published exclusively for the competition and signed by author J K Rowling. The Harry Potter-mad teenager had to write a letter explaining in no more than 50 words why she loved the much-loved books.
Her entry, complete with elaborate doodles, wooed the judges and she was chosen as one of 14 runners-up. Now the prize - the rarest Potter novel ever seen by book experts - is set to go under the hammer on December 16 with a guide price of £5,000-£10,000.
