Harry Potter Complete Collection Books 1-7, Bloomsbury, Adult 1st Ed, Hardcover

  

Harry Potter, The Complete Collection Books 1 to 7, Bloomsbury Adult Edition, First Edition Hardcovers with Dust Jackets, Gilded Titling on Spine. Seven black hardcovers, gilded titling on spine, and not a lightning bolt cartoon in sight. Lumos: this is the set grown-up readers first bought so they could read Harry on the Hogwarts Express train without explaining themselves.

In 2004 Bloomsbury did something no other publisher of the series had done. It reissued Harry Potter for adults. Same words, same translator free original English, but dressed in sober photographic jackets with gold foil lettering, gilded top edges and a portrait of the author on the back instead of a cartoon. The Adult Edition was aimed squarely at the commuter who loved the books and wanted a more sophisticated design of the classic series.

The jackets were designed by William Webb with cover photography by Michael Wildsmith, and the author portraits on the back boards are by Bill De La Hey. Each cover reduces an entire novel to a single object photographed against darkness: a raw red stone, a carved pair of serpents, a ruined tower across black water, a goblet burning blue, a bronze phoenix in flame, a battered potions book, a silver locket on slate. Everything is photographed, and the restraint is the whole point.

This is a complete run of all seven novels in hardcover, First Edition, First Adult Edition, with early printings 1-1. This set belongs to the collector who wants the complete British run, in hardcover without paying 1997 prices, and to the reader who simply thinks these are the handsomest jackets the series ever wore.

The Adult Edition has been out of print for years. Complete matched runs in hardcover, with every dust jacket present and in fine or near fine condition, and the gilding still bright on the spines. Bloomsbury was founded in London in 1986 and is the original publisher of Harry Potter, having taken the first book when other houses passed on it. Every British edition of the series carries a Bloomsbury imprint.

The Adult Edition was the house's answer to a readership that had quietly grown up alongside Harry, and it has since become one of the most collected of all the Bloomsbury design lines. A Note on Collector Value.

All copies of the book are First Edition, Bloomsbury First Adult Edition. Books one through four are early printings of third and fourth. The edition line is out of print, and a complete seven volume hardcover run with all jackets intact and in fine or near fine condition is markedly harder to assemble than any single volume suggests. Harry Potter, The Complete Collection Books 1 to 7, Bloomsbury Adult Edition, Hardcover.

All seven novels in the out-of-print Bloomsbury Adult Edition hardcover, each with its original photographic dust jacket, gold foil titling on spine, and the Bloomsbury colophon stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London. Edition: First Edition, Bloomsbury First Adult Edition. Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, seven volumes, gilded title foil stamped on each spine. Author photography: Bill De La Hey (rear jacket panels).

Printer: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc. Typesetting: Dorchester Typesetting (books 1 to 4), Palimpsest Book Production (book 5), RefineCatch Limited (books 6 and 7).

Books included: All seven novels, complete matched run. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. ISBN 978 0 7475 7360 9.

This edition first published 2004. Print line 5 7 9 10 8 6 4, fourth printing.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. ISBN 978 0 7475 7361 6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. ISBN 0 7475 7362 X.

Print line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4, third printing. Cover photographed at Dunstanburgh Castle by permission of the National Trust and English Heritage. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. ISBN 0 7475 7363 8 (978 0 7475 7363 0).

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. ISBN 978 0 7475 6940 4. First published in Great Britain 2003, first edition.

Print line 7 9 10 8, seventh printing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. ISBN 0 7475 8110 X. First published in Great Britain 2005, a true first edition.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ISBN 978 0 7475 9106 1.

First published in Great Britain 2007, first edition. The packaging is top notch and the best I've seen. Packing is not an afterthought here. It is the part of the job that decides whether a rare, retired, or fragile piece arrives ready to display. In premium protective bubble wrap.

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