Proof copy with rare book typos harry potter and the Philosopher’s Stonefrom JK Rowlingthe first of what would become a coming-of-age story fantasy the most successful of all time, it was sold in England for more than $18,000 to an Oxfordshire buyer who planned to display it in a local museum in the hope of attracting tourism to the area.

A strange copy – which was purchased for one dollar 25 cents in 1997 by St. Mary’s Elementary School. Found at Minster Lovell, Witney, at a warehouse sale – the author’s name is misspelled on the cover: replaces printed JK JArowling.

“We purchased the book without believing it to have any particular value, because of the press coverage the story received, and believing that reading excerpts to children would encourage them to own a copy for themselves,” he said. Bob Alderformer school director at the newspaper Daily mirror From Great Britain.

The “Uncorrected Proof Copy” announced at auction in England, was one of 200 copies printed by the publisher Bloomsbury 26 years ago, a prelude to the book that marked the beginning of an unstoppable phenomenon, even in cinema, and that made history teenage magician in classical literature.

School administrators who purchased the copy were concerned that it would be lost – they believed they might have thrown it away by accident – after eight years of not finding it. It so happened that the school immediately bought the first edition of the saga Harry Potterso his test copy remained practically untouched on his library shelf.

In 2002, the school realized that the test, one of 200 printed by Bloomsbury, might have value due to the popularity of the book series, and kept it. However, in 2015, the copy went missing and “there were concerns that it had been thrown into the old hardback book bin,” he said. Alder.

The book was found at a cleanup this summer, and the school decided to sell it. The money will be used to help school children “develop their love of literature,” he said. Alder about this story is as fantastic as the book that started it.

It was that story – which has sold more than 500 million copies worldwide – that did it Joanne Rowlingwho also wrote under a pseudonym Robert Galbraithone of the richest women in England, with an accumulated fortune of more than 700 million dollars.

Born in Yate in 1965, the hit fantasy songwriter began writing when she was a single mother looking for work in a country that was not her own, Portugal.

The author is ranked in magazines such as Forbes and Timein recognition of the “social, moral, and political” gravity the characters he created acquired.

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