Harry Potter And The Rare First Edition
I’VE never quite understood why so many adults read Harry Potter. It’s a children’s book! Grow up and read a book byJudy Blume or someone.
Anyway, one man still young enough to legitimately enjoy the over-rated adventure books is 19-year-old Toby Rundle, whose first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is set to fetch up to £15,000 at auction.
Rundle, from Williton in Somerset, was sent the then unknown book by his mother while at boarding school but now he wants cash in on it and put the funds raised towards a classics and English degree at Oxford University.
Book specialist Chris Albury said of Toby’s first edition copy, “There are so few books worth that kind of money - it’s like having a winning lottery ticket”.
£15,000? I’d want a lot more money if I had a winning lottery ticket.
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June 22nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
lol anon, it’s these muggles they have no understanding
June 21st, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I’m with you on this one pixie girl. I too was introduced to Harry Potter when my then 5 year old daughter asked if I would buy the first book for her as her teacher in school was reading sections to the class but my daughter wanted to read more of it. Can’t wait for the last book in the series to be published!
June 21st, 2007 at 8:30 pm
A funny thing I noticed on Emily Parr’s Casting Call profile, it lists Harry Potter under “Additional Skills”. Interesting that being able to read Harry Potter is seen as a skill.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Your grandfather was four when he taught you to read? I’m impressed.
June 21st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
A few years back some friends were told off for teaching their preschoolers to read, as the ‘method taught these days is different’
My grandfather taught me to read at age 4, I was pretty fluent at most of it but some words of course were a problem
The literacy problems today beggar belief, and I don’t blame the teachers , just the nonsense curriculae they are supposed to adhere to.
I have a younger friend , a German National , and his English literacy is beyond compare, so just what is going on here??
June 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I was talking about generally reading to your children, not necessarily ready HP, But I probably wouldn’t have even picked up Harry Potter but for my daughter struggling it alone so therefore us reading it together.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pm
I’ve watched some adult friends buy and read HP, I think they are weird. They think I am weird because I don’t, and ,they think I’m weird because I read Stewart and Janet Farrar.
But we can all read.
I’m awfully sorry but your reference to being a good parent is rather confusing.
(Some of my adult friends are childless)
June 21st, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Old enough for me to be an adult though, I’m hardly “hip” and young am I?
Some people on here just want an argument. Yes i read Harry Potter, they were good I can’t wait for the next and final installment, I also read adult books, I read to my children.
According to the posters here that makes me weird?
Well weird and proud for being a good parent then !
June 21st, 2007 at 4:03 pm
thought you said your daughter was 12? hardly grown up
June 21st, 2007 at 3:52 pm
“hip enough” even my mother understands brill. My kids are almost grown up.
Stop being so facetious!
June 21st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
“Harry Potter is brill” - sorry, what does ‘brill’ mean? I’m not ‘hip’ enough to understand it. Maybe it’s a wizard thing?
“Anorak have you read any of the Harry Potter books?”
I’d rather hope not.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:34 pm
ah well there ya go then, at least I am a weirdo who can read ! Which is more than I can say for a lot of people
June 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I think that makes you very very weird.
June 21st, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Anorak have you read any of the Harry Potter books?
And what will children read when they are older? thankfully there are new authors appearing all the time,
I read a mixture of books. Mainly adult, definitely can’t wait for the new Harry Potter book. but if I’m without a book I wont think twice of going and picking some Roald Dahl off my bookshelf.
Does that make we weird?
June 21st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Wouldn’t children always read - even without Potter? And if adults are reading children’s books, what do children think they will read when they are older - more Potter?.
June 21st, 2007 at 9:46 am
I read all the Enid Blyton 500 x each when i was a child!
Was most disappointed to find they were too dated for my daughter to now relate too
people don’t read enough !! I think I know 3 adults who read on a regular basis and very few who actually read to their children. It’s a disgrace.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:59 am
and lashings of custard too
June 21st, 2007 at 8:54 am
Why not try Enid Blyton then? It’s a cracking good read.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:12 am
sorry incredibly insulted by your 1st remark !!
does it matter what we are reading? children or adults! This country in general has such poor literacy skills. We should be pleased peole are reading any books at any age !!
Harry Potter is brill, probably never something I would have picked up but daughter wanted to read it at 5 and was struggling with some of the words, we read the whole book a paragraph each and I was hooked.
Now she is 12 and Harry Potter is a discussion point, something that brings us closer together a common interest. Something not many parents I know have with their children at that age !