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Sarah Ward & Marissa MacWhirter & Nia Dalton

Mum sells first-edition Harry Potter book - with life-changing consequences

A family found a rare Harry Potter book while clearing out the attic - and sold it for nearly £6,000 to a bookshop in Chelsea, London. Kirsten Kane received a call from her mum in November 2022 to say she'd found the copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in her loft.

It had Kirsten's name written inside, so her mum asked her if she wanted to keep it. But the book turned out to be a first-edition published by Bloomsbury in 1997. Kirsten, 35, said: "It was the original printing, it was one of only 500 in the entire world. It's insane."

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