The original illustration for the first edition of J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” has sold for a record-breaking $1.9 million.

The watercolor cover art was created by author and illustrator Thomas Taylor. The image features young wizard Harry Potter – with his unmistakable dark, brown hair, round glasses and lightning ...

Big Number $421,000. That was the sale price for the previously most expensive Harry Potter item ever sold. The unsigned first edition of the first book in the series sold in Dallas three years ago.

A version of this article appears in print on June 28, 2024, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Original Cover Art for ‘Harry Potter’ Fetches $1.92 Million at Auction.

Original ‘Harry Potter’ Cover Art Could Fetch Up To $600,000 At Auction—Possibly Breaking Book Series’ Record By Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff.

His cover art took only two days to create. Harry Potter’s place in literary history The illustration was on the cover of the first edition of the novel in 1997, which quickly became a bestseller.

The fan art shows one possible option of how Harry Potter could be changing, and it will be exciting to see how the characters are portrayed in the new show. Source: creaition99 /Instagram ...

Taylor was among the first to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. He completed the assignment—a watercolor of a young wizard boarding the Hogwarts Express —in two days.