Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

VERY GOOD condition --- DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, flaps and folds, primarily the latter. Price clipped. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. Very minor soiling to textblock head and foredge, primarily the former. Pencil markings top of FFEP. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of J. K. Rowling's second novel in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which was the basis for the film of the same name, released in 2002. This is a 1st UK trade edition, 3rd printing of the work published by Bloomsbury in 1998. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

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"Harry can't wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts School. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a chamber of secrets, holding unknown horrors to wizards of Muggle parentage. Now someone is casting spells that turn people to stone, and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall. The chief suspect - always in the wrong place - is Harry. But something much darker has yet to be unleashed."

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Joanne Rowling CH OBE FRSL (born 31 July 1965), best known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith. . . .

Rowling's Harry Potter series has won awards for general literature, children's literature and speculative fiction. It has earned multiple British Book Awards, beginning with the Children's Book of the Year for the first two volumes, Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets. . . .

Rowling was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours for services to children's literature, and three years later received Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Concord. Following the conclusion of the Harry Potter series, she won the Outstanding Achievement prize at the 2008 British Book Awards. . . .

The above text was taken from, respectively, A. A. Levine publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.