Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

First Deluxe Collector's Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. [vi (blank)], 317, [3 (blank)]. Publisher's mid-green buckram, lettered and blocked in gilt to cover and spine, with mounted full-colour pictorial onlay by Cliff Wright and author's facsimile signature to upper board, dark green endpapers. All edges gilt. Printed on wove paper by Clays Ltd, St Ives. With sewn in yellow silk ribbon bookmark. No dustjacket, as issued. Text copyright by 'Joanne Rowling', and full descending number line 10-down-to-1 to copyright page.

With a print run of just under 1,000 copies thought to have been published on 27 September 1999, same date as the first deluxe editions of Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, this is the scarcest title in the series. Specifically created for the gift market, they were priced at £18 each.

Winner of the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Listed at number 24 in BBC's Big Read, 200 Best Novels, [2003]. The third in the series featuring young boy-wizard Harry Potter, about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

[Errington, Philip W., J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography, rev. ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), A7(c)]