1/27/2024 0 Comments Harry potter hardcoverScholastic is a bit more proud of it now, eh?īoth editions use the exact same typefaces, illustrations, and ornaments and both books clock in at 309 pages. While the descriptions are identical (inside front dust jacket leaf- hardcover back cover- paperback), the paperback also lists various awards the story received in the year following its release. While the hardcover only has the published displayed on the spine, the paperback prominently features a red Scholastic logo. The paperback doesn’t have a dust jacket but instead its cover has the identical illustration from the dust jacket of the hardcover version. A quick glance at the covers shows little difference. The first hardcover edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in 1997 and the paperback followed in 1998. The differences in Harry Potter are a bit more gradual. Heck, Lewis Carroll designed and published four different editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland within five years of its first publication date (Lastoria, 2019). It’s not uncommon for any book, especially a popular one, to undergo changes throughout the course of its publishing. Things are likely to change during this time so let’s take a peek at some differences. The series has been as widely criticized as it has been celebrated but as a queer teen who never fit in, it was a welcome escape.įor a book that remains on bookstore shelves nearly 25 years later, it’s safe to assume there have been multiple printings. Needless to say, I smitten with the series and have been sorted into Gryffindor via the Wizarding World even though my Hogwarts letter never arrived. The movies or the movie soundtracks are almost always on repeat in my home, it drives my partner, a hardcore horror movie and death metal fan, nuts. I was at the midnight release for the seventh book and took forever to read it because I didn’t want the series to end. I was at the midnight release of the sixth book and devoted for a week about its ending. I bought my paperback copy of Order of the Phoenix in London while studying Shakespearan literature and art history over winter break. By the end of the week I was done with the fourth and anxiously awaiting both moving away to college and the fifth release. I devoured the first book in a day, the second one the next day, the third one the day after that. The summer before college a friend finally managed to convince me by saying something like “look, it’s a short book, try the first one and if you hate it, you never have to pick up another one again.” Challenge accepted. And then the movies started coming out I didn’t watch them either. It was popular bookish fiction and I was an angsty bookish pre-teen and did not read what everyone else read. The first Harry Potter book was released in the US shortly before I entered high school (yup, I’m a “geriatric millennial”) and by that time it was already retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (it’s common knowledge that it was first titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone). There’s a lot to be said about the Harry Potter series, this is my connection to them and a look at a few of the differences between editions.
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