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MOSCOW, July 10 For 10.5 thousand pounds of strelings (13.5 thousand dollars) the first edition of the book «Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone» went under the hammer , according to the website of the auction house Richard Winterton Auctioneers.
The initial estimate of the lot is three to five thousand (3.9 thousand — 6.4 thousand dollars) pounds of shooting.
The former owner bought the book 25 years ago for 30 pence on sale at the Wolverhampton City Library. He died last year at 55.
In 1997 Bloomsbury printed only 500 copies of The Philosopher's Stone. 300 books from this edition were distributed to public libraries.
It was previously reported that the house where the film about Mary Poppins was filmed went under the hammer for 12 million pounds.