Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Hardcover First Edition - First Printing- Adult Issue London: Bloomsbury UK 2005. £16.99 cover price. "First Edition" stated on the copyright page indicating a first printing. Includes the "eleven" error on page 99. Fine- in Fine- Dust Jacket A nice copy with little or no discernible reading wear but does have a hairline mark on the bottom, edge-wear to the jacket, mostly upper front and upper and lower spine.
NOTE on the UK Editions of the Harry Potter books: The true first editions/first printings of the Harry Potter books were issued by Bloomsbury UK. For all titles beginning with "HP and the Goblet of Fire", all first printings are shown as "First Edition" on the copyright page to make it very easy to differentiate printings. (The first three use the printing number-line.) "HP and the Order of the Phoenix" was published in two issues (or states): a children's issue with the dust jacket art in red and yellow colors which is probably the more desirable of the two and an adult issue in black, brown and gray colors on the dust jacket. The UK editions of the Harry Potter books read slightly differently than the US versions. Sadly, editors at Scholastic US felt American children wouldn't understand some of the British-English phrases and words so they "Americanized" the text. Some of the US text reads a bit clumsy. In my opinion, the UK text is far superior and reads lighter, faster, wittier and ultimately easier than the more clunky US texts.
NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
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A Word on First Editions: 95% of my offerings are trade editions, and 90% of those are first printings. In general I do NOT sell bookclub editions or cheap reprints like Modern Library except in rare instances which would be explicitly stated as such. In general, I also DO NOT sell x-library copies.
If the book is both a first edition AND a first printing, it will be marked as “first edition” in the Item Specifics under “Special Attributes”, otherwise assume a later printing or a later edition.