Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Large 8vo. Pp. 251, [5]. Publisher's powder blue 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 blue endpapers. All edges gilt. Printed on wove paper by Clays Ltd, St Ives. With sewn-in green silk ribbon bookmark. No dustjacket, as issued.

Text copyright by J. K. Rowling and full descending number line 10-down-to-1 to copyright page. 1/7,500 copies published on 27 September 1999, same date as the first deluxe editions of Philosopher's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban. Specifically created for the gift market, they were priced at £18 each.

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(e)]