Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bloomsbury First Edition, 2005 Hardcover)
The sixth Harry Potter novel, in its first Bloomsbury edition from the year of publication
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Author: J. K. Rowling
- Publisher: Bloomsbury, London
- Publication Date: 2005
- ISBN-13: 9780747581086
- ISBN-10: 0747581088
- Edition Details: First Edition, Bloomsbury, London, 2005.
- Binding: Publisher's pictorial printed boards with the cover art printed directly on the boards; spine panels in blue, green and brown with ring emblem.
- Physical Format: Large hardcover, thick volume. Title page with Hogwarts crest illustration.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Good (G)
- Exterior / Boards: Pictorial printed boards, issued without a separate dust jacket. The spine shows creasing and wrinkling to the green panel, with light wear and scuffing at the head and foot, and some cracking to the brown band at the head of the spine. There is a minor small abrasion to the front cover near the wand hand. The corners are mostly sound.
- Interior: The text block is clean and tight with cream pages and lightly toned page edges. The endpapers are clean and unmarked, and there are no visible markings in the text.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Present
Synopsis & Historical Value
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth novel in J. K. Rowling's celebrated series, published by Bloomsbury in London in 2005. It opens in a misty summer as Harry awaits an unexpected visit from Professor Dumbledore, and his sixth year at Hogwarts begins unusually as the Muggle and magical worlds start to merge.
The story follows Harry's discovery of a Potions textbook annotated by the mysterious Half-Blood Prince, and builds to a dramatic revelation about the Prince's identity near the close of the book.
The novel sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release, one of the great publishing events of its era. This first edition is a collectible copy of a landmark of modern children's and family literature.
Author Profile: J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, near Bristol, England. She is the British author of the Harry Potter series, which her official site reports has sold over 600 million copies.
Her other works include the companion books Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages (both 2001) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008). She also wrote the screenplays for the Fantastic Beasts films and the stage script Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016). Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith she writes the Strike crime novels.
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