Ginge Reads

Earlier this month, a rare hardback edition of J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , sold for £33,000 after being found and recovered from a school skip. The copy was one of only 500 first edition hardbacks printed of the 1997 book, which well succeeded its estimated price of between £8,000 and £12,000 at the online auction on 21st May. It is the third copy found by Hanson's Auctioneers in the last 12 months. Alongside several other paperback books from the series, the anonymous seller rescued the copies in 2008 from a skip at the Buckinghamshire school where she used to work. According to the 65 year old teacher, the school was in the process of throwing away tatty books in preparation for an Ofsted inspection, something which was a fairly regular occurrence. She said: "I love books and reading and it just seemed awful to throw them away, so I picked up about five Harry Potter books. I thought they might be useful for my children or grandchildren i