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)].
Light toning to textblock edges, else 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)]