| Pott luck
Professor Dumbledore couldn't conjure it up...
These little wizards Ella-Jay Morley, aged three, and her friend Grace Hutton, five, are spellbound by one of the earliest copies of the Harry Potter books.
But the real magic of the 1997 copy of The Philosopher's Stone is that Ella's dad Ryan bought it for just 50p and has since seen its value rocket.
Ryan, a self-employed designer of Chelsea Road, Brincliffe Edge, Sheffield, acquired it while working as a student at a book wholesalers in Norwich. It is believed there are only about 50 copies in the world and Ryan knows of three that have been sold over the internet for £8,000,
Ryan said: "I was working in this wholesaler's on a minium wage and there was this backroom where you could go and get books for cheap and I noticed the book title.
"I had no idea then it was a children's book, I just thought it would be interesting to read and would fit in with what I was studying at the time."
15 September 2003 | |
