Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

By J. K. Rowling

First illustrated edition, first impression: London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Signed by the illustrator, Jim Kay, on the title page.

Original red cloth, the spine lettered in blue. Illustrated in colour throughout by Kay. In the original unclipped dust jacket, priced £30.00 on the front flap. Kay’s painting of the Hogwarts Express runs across both panels and the spine, the title stamped in blue foil, and the rear panel carries Rowling’s tribute to the illustrations. With the Foyles “Signed First Edition” sticker on the front panel and the Foyles price label on the rear panel.

A near fine copy, with some knocking to the top corners.

The dust jacket fine and unclipped.

Bloomsbury announced that all seven Harry Potter novels would be published with full-colour illustrations by Jim Kay, and this first volume appeared in October 2015. Kay had won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations to Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls. He went on to illustrate the next four volumes, the last of them Order of the Phoenix in 2022, before stepping down from the series in October of that year. The jacket carries Rowling’s response to the drawings: “Seeing Jim Kay’s illustrations moved me profoundly. I love his interpretation of Harry Potter’s world, and I feel honoured and grateful that he has lent his talent to it.”.