hey how's it going hi fine i got this relatively rare harry potter book first edition first
printing okay harry potter and the philosopher of stone jk rowling she wrote most of it in a copy
shop and she became a multi-billionaire about a story with a kid that carries around a stick
i'm here at the pawn shop today to sell the first edition
of harry potter and the philosopher's stone it's a first printing and it's signed by
j.k rowling the author i'm hoping to sell the book today for ten thousand dollars
harry potter and the philosopher of stone it's a story about a young boy he's uh when he turns
11 years old he finds out that he's actually a wizard and needs to go to wizard school after the
book was released in 1997 kids fell in love with it and it just went viral all around the world
they've done like i think eight movies plus there was like some spin-off movies and it's amazing
how well this is done where did you get this i bought it from the dealer in england
okay um looks like it's signed here yeah and you got a certificate of authenticity
harry potter and the philosopher's stone signed by jk rowling so it looks in really good shape okay
how much you want for it well i thought it might be worth ten thousand okay uh maybe it is maybe
it's not i have no idea um but i have a very good friend that will know everything about it she will
probably be really good with the signature she'll know if it's first edition yeah which printing
and everything else like that yeah so just hang out for a few minutes i will get her down here
and have her take a look at it okay all right i'll be right back harry potter the kid with the stick
double ganger you told me you wanted me to look at a signed copy so i thought i have a signed copy
for purposes of actually comparing the signature the best thing to do is to compare it with one
that is actually known to be correct this young man bought this 18 19 years ago and this was some
special printing they came out with yes in 1999 when it had already started getting the momentum
for which it's famous they published uh deluxe editions of the works and there are a few things
that make these deluxe a lot of this guilt you know this is actual gold and then you can see that
the text block edges here are also guilt these are all indications of a typical deluxe production
okay i can even tell just looking at it from here this is a beautiful copy which is what
you want for a book like this but rowling is infamous for having many many many forgeries
it's just like a hornet's nest it's always a problem okay well look inside do your magic
so i'm actually going to compare it first just to double check
you can see it has the general shape but first of all some of these lines have been double-crossed
right so here you can see this has gone over more than once there's some shakiness right here
the other thing too is you're actually seeing it squished you see it's actually a lot thinner and
that's important because it's very typical with forgeries for signatures to be slightly smaller or
more squished so not a real signature i am sorry to say i don't think that this is a real signature
i have no idea that it might be different what's the book worth this book unsigned isn't a very
expensive book but moreover in my opinion this is actually not even worth what it would be if
it were unsigned because this in my opinion should be taken off the market so as far as i'm concerned
the value on this is zero okay you're amazing thanks thank you right yes yep all right um
it's not real so it's not for me but thanks for bringing it in all right have a great day
thank you well i'm very disappointed i probably will just give it to one of my great grandchildren
you