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An edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

1st Scholastic trade paperback printing (89)

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Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years.

But all that is about change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him...if Harry can survive the encounter.
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English
Pages
309

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England Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 4 Privet Drive Diagon Alley Leaky Cauldron Gringotts Wizarding Bank Forbidden Forest King's Cross Station Platform Nine and Three-quarters London

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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2000, Media Rodzina
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
1998, Arthur A. Levine Books
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Table of Contents

1. The Boy Who Lived --
2. The Vanishing Glass --
3. The Letters from No One --
4. The Keeper of the Keys --
5. Diagon Alley --
6. The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters --
7. The Sorting Hat --
8. The Potions Master --
9. The Midnight Duel --
10. Halloween --
11. Quidditch --
12. The Mirror of Erised --
13. Nicolas Flamel --
14. Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback --
15. The Forbidden Forest --
16. Through the Trapdoor --
17. The Man with Two Faces.

Edition Notes

USA

Published in
New York
Series
Harry Potter, #1
Copyright Date
2008

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
vi, 309p.
Number of pages
309

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL32050615M
ISBN 10
059035342X
ISBN 13
9780590353427
OCLC/WorldCat
741310793
Goodreads
45286449

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL82563W

Work Description

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.

HARRY POTTER has never even heard of Hogwarts when the LETTERS start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in GREEN INK on yellowish parchment with a PURPLE SEAL, they are swiftly confiscated by his GRISLY aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called RUBEUS HAGRID bursts in with some ASTONISHING news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

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Mr. And Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
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