The book cover art that introduced readers across the world to Harry Potter is expected to break auction records next month. This past week, Sotheby's announced the auction scheduled for June 26 ...

The move to incorporate a new cover art couldn’t have come at a better time as well as its going to be the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter book in the UK in June.

The watercolor cover art was ... of the book, the auction house said. However, it was not used for the US edition of the book, which was released with the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ...

Most international publishers used the art for the cover of the now-iconic book, but it was not used for the American edition, which was published under the title "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ...

Now, the original illustration for the first edition of the book is ... placed on a Harry Potter-related item, according to auction house Sotheby’s. The watercolor cover art was created by ...

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 ...

The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone - the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard - sold for US$1.9mil ...

More than 500 million copies of the books have been sold in 80 languages An art handler holds Thomas Taylor’s original cover art for J.K. Rowling's “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ...

Expelliarmus to all previous records! An original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, the first book in J.K. Rowling's international hit series ...