Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Thirtieth Printing. 8vo. Pp. 251, [4 (pubs. advts.)]. Publisher's laminated pictorial boards, with the Cliff Wright original artwork repeated on the dust jacket, which is correctly priced at £10.99 on the front flap. With fan letter facsimiles and adverts at the rear.

An early reprint in Fine/Fine condition.

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(a)]