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Harry Potter Cover Art Fetches Record Price Of $1.9M At Auction
The art for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' sells for record price at auction.
An art handler holds Thomas Taylor's original cover art ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images The original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in author J.K. Rowling’s famous series, is now the most expensive piece of Potter-related memorabilia ever sold at auction. It has now been sold for $1.9 million by Sotheby’s New York, but not before a four-way bidding battle that lasted almost 10 minutes. A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the previous record-holder.
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