First paperback edition. 1999 [2000]. 8vo. Pp. 317, [3 (pubs. advts.)]. Publisher's illustrated wraps with original artwork by Cliff Wright. Full run of numbers 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 to the copyright page and correctly priced at £5.99 net to rear cover. Printed on wove paper by Clays Ltd, St Ives. Published on 1 April 2000, in an edition of 52,636 copies, simultaneously with the Adult paperback edition [A7(ee)].
Faintly creased to spine, lightly tanned to page edges, else Near Fine.
Winner of the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Listed at number 24 in BBC's Big Read, 200 Best Novels, [2003]. The third in the series featuring young boy-wizard Harry Potter, about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
[Errington, Philip W., J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography, rev. ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), A7(e)]