Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

First paperback edition. 1998 [1999]. 8vo. Pp. 251, [4 (pubs. advts.)]. Publisher's pictorial wraps, illustrated by Cliff Wright, with Sunday Times blurb and 1998 Smarties Book Prize Gold 'sticker' to front cover. Full number sequence of 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 to the copyright page and correctly priced at £4.99 to rear cover. With fan letter facsimiles and adverts at the rear. Printed on wove paper by Clays Ltd, St Ives. Published on 28 January 1999, with its launch on Kings Cross Station (platform one) on a green steam locomotive.

Partially sunned to upper cover and spine, tanned to textblock edges and half-title, else Near Fine. A sound copy.

Winner of the 1999 Children's Book of the Year, and the 1998 Gold Medal Smarties Prize. Nominated for the 1999 Whitbread Prize (Children's Book of the Year). Listed at number 23 in BBC's Big Read, 200 Best Novels, [2003]. The second instalment in the Harry Potter series where the title character is a trainee wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

[Errington, Philip W., J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography, rev. ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), A2(b)]